07-09-2010, 08:53 AM
quote:Hi, I live on the lower end of Glennwood in Fern Forest. Any thoughts on the following, because I gotta say I'm pretty upset about what just happened a couple minuets ago. A census worker just went over the chain across my driveway, walked past 4 or 5 "no trespassing" & other "beware" signs down a 600 foot driveway, she walks around a bend and up to my house and looks in through my screen door to say "hello, I'm from..." holding a clip board but talking as if she's high as a kite. Yep, never has anyone been so bold before, but there she was, looking at me through the screen door in my boxers and my wife who was on our bed breast feeding my 5 month old son. (Its a small house) Now, I wouldn't be so upset if we had been a couple of "dead beat's" who hadn't been cooperating with them and this was their action of last resort because we hadn't sent in our census questionnaire. However, we did fill it out & and we mailed it back to them months ago. But here is this young woman who comes out of no where, and looking into my house (Startling the CRAP out of me & my wife)wanting information about my neighbors? Come on!! Couldn't they have put their questions on paper and tied it to the gate like the ones we filled out for them before? Isn't it going too far for them to ignore a chain across the driveway, ignore the posted warning signs, and not even announce themselves as the came into sight of the house? Isn't this feeling of invulnerability that these census people have bound to get someone hurt? I mean even HELCO employees that have come and gone on our property had the common sense to hollar as they approached. We're talking about a house where the residents have already complied with the census and given the department no reason to think the residents wouldn't fill out additional documentation if it was left on their gate as before? They can just look into a house in the middle of the woods and say "We're here" and not expect the half dressed residents (who have been playing by the rules) to be upset? Isn't this an abuse? Could the census rep have opened my door and entered my home if she wanted her answers badly enough?
Originally posted by mdd7000
If these paranoid delusional types that live all over Puna would have been smart enough to fill it out and mail it back in the first place, they wouldn't have someone paying them a visit later.
Do I have grounds to file a complaint? Should I have called the police?