Here’s a song for you all to listen to while you’re waiting for that knock on the door...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf-SkxApP5c
I got one last year. Then a reminder. Think my dogs ate them.
I got my survey this time last year, right before election. I didn't return it and thus began the march of the Newman's (govt employees) to my door. The first guy showed up approx 6 times, leaving notes, talked to my neighbors, and calling my HOA to “reach” me. One morning he started whistling on my porch while ringing doorbell for 30 mins. I called police. Police came out and at first wanted to take action against the survey collector, until Policeman called the ACA Bureau office and was told it was a legitimate government survey. Police told me I could not claim trespassing as this Govt worker had every right to be on my property to conduct Govt business. On which I replied Bo!!@x!
Policeman had me tell Newman #1 that I did not wish to partake in survey and to stop coming to my property. Newman #1 then said while pointing to his govt badge, “ ok, I won't be back but others will”.
Sure enough Newman #2 came two days later and she got the same verbal treatment from me and scattered. All the time I was getting letters from the local Los Angeles Bureau threatening me with fines, citations and the usual yada yada yada for not participating. The same police officer showed up again and said you could “fill survey out with bogus info, but between you and me they have all this info already”. Exactly,
The ACA Newman's finally gave up and I haven't heard from them since, but will be prepared if I do.
If I get one it will be filled out the same as always!
2 HOMOSAPIANS
Below that will be NOYB in red marksalot!!!
I received it and ignored it.
I received another one and intended to ignore it.
One day they called our home while I was out and a family member fielded some questions & that seems to have appeased them.
Please don’t count me again because I’ve already been counted, but I thought I’d give an update.
I received the form in the mail a couple of times and ignored it.
Then, a couple weeks ago, a representative showed up at my house when I wasn’t home and my wife told her that she’d have to speak with me. She left a card and asked that I call so that she wouldn’t have to come back.
I did not call thinking that maybe she would just forget about me, but lo and behold, she came back on Saturday when I was out cutting wood. She left another card and it said that she was “obligated” to keep coming back until she spoke with me. No one spoke with her this time either.
I went ahead and called her last night and told her “thank you, but I’m not interested”. She began to read a script to me saying how important this was that I participate, but I stopped her and told her that I understood how important she thought that it was, but I was still not interested. She then asked for my name and I asked why. She said that she needed to record that she had spoken with someone at my address and that we refused to complete the survey. I suggested that she just write that she spoke with an adult at the address and that they refused. She said “OK”. and we were done.
Hope that helps for some others wondering what they should do.
My wife’s aunt did. She doesn’t know if it is real.
So I looked HERE! so much better than Wikipedia or the rest of the web.
In today’s climate of Target, et.al., scams, I would reply that it also must be a scam and I cannot participate for my own safety.
A friend of mine just asked me about this, as she is being told by one of their filed workers that she will be fined up to $5000 if she fails to complete the survey. WTH?