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Posted at 3:20 PM on November 24, 2009 by Than Tibbetts (0 Comments)

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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