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AP source: Census worker hanged with 'fed' on body
Associated Press ^ | Sept. 23, 2009 | DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY

Posted on 09/23/2009 2:17:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery. A law enforcement official says the word "fed" was scrawled on his chest.

The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky.

Investigators have said little about the case.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: billsparkman; census; lynching; tawanabrawley
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To: dr_who

None here either. ;>)


121 posted on 09/23/2009 5:54:38 PM PDT by Gator113 (TIMES)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I saw a Honda Civic get repo’d yesterday in the Best Buy parking lot...dudes had tshirts labeled “RECOVERY AGENT” and one guy was packing heat...which I am pretty sure is illegal in Los Angeles, unless he had permission from the mall owner (which I doubt)


122 posted on 09/23/2009 5:54:58 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: slickfree

.... what do you think?
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I think I need another drink.


123 posted on 09/23/2009 6:17:43 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (http://www.muckety.com/7BECFF40501E647D3741343C37265A57.map)
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To: ktscarlett66

Naaaaaaa. This was YEARS ago. It was bad enough.....even back then. LOL! He had to jump on the top of his car many-a-time due to pit bulls.


124 posted on 09/23/2009 6:19:56 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (http://www.muckety.com/7BECFF40501E647D3741343C37265A57.map)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
"Someone with the inside scoop on ACORN?"

More likely someone taken for a "Revenuer" in Pot/Moonshine country. That is not a good place for a stranger to ask personal questions.

125 posted on 09/23/2009 6:25:30 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I can only imagine. These people are nuts - and it’s not like they don’t have adequate warning about what the bank is going to do if they don’t get their money.

My 17 year old son and I caught a couple of episodes of Op. Repo one night while we were vegging out. He said “Man! If those people came after my car, I’d let ‘em have it! I’d even drive it there for them, or run it through the carwash first if they wanted me to!”


126 posted on 09/23/2009 6:42:53 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: Tublecane

Ky is a major transhipment location.

Excellent Interstate system both North/South and East/West.

Hatian/Mexican/Jamacian gangs fighting for turf ..


127 posted on 09/23/2009 7:14:10 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: livius; Crawdad
Yep, odds are he stumbled on a pot operation.

Even down this way there's a lot of this in NGA -- also in the national forests. Law enforcement there is spotty, the sheriff has enough to tend to where people actually LIVE. And they don't go up there unless they go in force.

This poor fellow was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

128 posted on 09/23/2009 7:24:42 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Probably, but I’m happier that she quit, it didn’t seem safe or prudent to have a pretty blonde approaching strangers in the boonies


129 posted on 09/23/2009 7:26:14 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Always be prepared to make that difference.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
From reports I've been hearing, Census Takers have been asking entirely too many questions of normal, everyday Americans. There's no way I'd go back into the hills of Appalachia and ask anybody anything!!!

I feel sorry for him (more so for his family) but in point of fact, he was taking Census Information for the Federal Government in an area that has been, for centuries, a "very private" place. As Forrest Gump would say, "Stupid is as Stupid Does"...

130 posted on 09/23/2009 7:33:23 PM PDT by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North ("I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit." Ellen Ripley, Aliens 1986)
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To: livius

They spend far too much time going after pot when they could be going after murderers, and thieves. The best way to kill organized crime is to end the drug war. Legalize it, make the age 18 and tax it, jobs could be created growing it and selling it. We could have businesses instead of murderous dealers sell it and card for it. Hemp also makes sturdier clothing material than cotton and hemp oil can be used as a source of energy. It could also compete with BigPharma and through competition bring prices down by offering an alternative. Pot is no different than alcohol in moderation.


131 posted on 09/23/2009 7:34:06 PM PDT by RebelYell1990
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To: liberty or death

I suspect that you don’t just play an idiot on TV....


132 posted on 09/23/2009 7:46:29 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Tublecane

Why yes I do. I stirred up a nasty little pot this morning. /s


133 posted on 09/23/2009 7:55:22 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: Valpal1
Understood.As this case shows it is not really wise for anyone to be approaching strangers in the boonies.

I wonder why they don't have them working in pairs? It would be safer.

134 posted on 09/23/2009 8:05:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; LucyT; Las Vegas Ron; rodguy911; BP2; Travis McGee; manc; patriot08; ...
The DUmmies are blaming Beck, Bachman and others. This sure looks like a threat to me. Photobucket
135 posted on 09/23/2009 11:19:01 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: Palladin

That’s really backwoods country. Probably someone that lives way back in the sticks and is anti-government.


136 posted on 09/23/2009 11:21:42 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: GatorGirl; LucyT

That doesn’t make sense to me. If they did it because he stumbled upon their pot, why would they hang him and write Fed on his chest? You would think they would get rid of all of the evidence. This just draws massive attention to that area which makes me think it has nothing to do with that. I think it’s an anti government act and they wanted to make sure he was found and they got the message.


137 posted on 09/23/2009 11:24:44 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Prayers for the deceased. I sure wouldn’t want to be a census man in Appalachia.
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Neither would I but the same goes for Harlem or Liberty City in Miami.


138 posted on 09/23/2009 11:27:03 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: Balding_Eagle

They have the GPS co-ordinates for every front door in the United States.
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I can assure you they don’t. They may think they do.


139 posted on 09/23/2009 11:29:15 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: LaybackLenny

Oh hell yea, Huffho and DUmpster are blaming Beck, Bachman, Rush, you name it. There is no reason not think it wasn’t some moonbat.


140 posted on 09/23/2009 11:31:46 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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