During every census, a couple of workers get shot by disgruntled paranoid people.
Hanging is very unusual.
Census takers—be careful; pack heat.
It IS dangerous. I used to date a guy who worked as a ‘repo man’. You can just imagine what he had to deal with on a daily basis.
My college age daughter got a job with the census this spring and did the two week training. Then she was assigned to the rural sections of our county which is most of it instead of the urban counting teams.
She asked if she could take her dog and carry a gun and they said no. She promptly resigned the job.
That’s really backwoods country. Probably someone that lives way back in the sticks and is anti-government.
We had French Mirage fighter jets fired on from a concerned, confused, hermit living in a log cabin near Eielson AFB, Alaska back in 1999. He didn’t hit anything. But, he knew the planes flying over were not ours.