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Originally Posted by California Tanker
Following someone is not a confrontation. If it were, private investigators would have a serous problem. Neither is asking someone you don't know to stop and talk to you. If that were a crime, I'll be first to cheer when chuggers and poll-takers are arrested.
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Poll Taker Won't Be Charged in Shooting Death of Respondent
FREETHOUGHT-FORUM.COM (Internet News Service) -- A poll taker who shot to death a respondent won't be charged in the incident, the authorities said.
The poll-taker, George Zimmerman, was going door to door in a gated Florida community conducting a survey on voter preferences between President Obama and Mitt Romney for the 2012 presidential race. Encountering Trayvon Martin, a black youth wearing a hoodie and armed with Skittles, Zimmerman immediately grew suspicious and began stalking Martin, demanding answers to his poll questions.
"These assholes always give the wrong answer," Zimmerman said. "Fucking coons." Zimmerman said he was afraid that Martin would skew the poll results in favor of Barack Obama, so the armed poll-taker whipped out his gun under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law and blew away both Martin and his potentially damaging vote for another black man.
"Poll taking isn't a crime," the police authorities said in a statement explaining why Zimmerman wasn't arrested.