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Remember the census worker found hanged with the word "fed" scrawled into his chest?
His death attracted national attention, and some feared it might be a sign of increasing unrest among the anti-government crowd.
Turns out...
The Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest staged his own death to look like a homicide so that his son could collect his life insurance, the authorities said Tuesday.
Much like the young woman who claimed an Obama supporter scrawled the letter B into her face, the handwriting gave it away, apparently.
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