Beware the bogus census collectors

Good one. As long as they don’t find out about the secret jungle laboratory…

Shhh, Mr Evil, remember the tasers……

The thing I love about secret spy bases is how the hell can it be secret if one publicises its existence. Secondly if the place is so damn secret surely the activity that goes on would also be secret ? Thirdly why on earth would you use microfilm in this day and age. Gotta love the paranoid 🙂

Ari, I read on the net at paranoia.com that they actually microfilm all those personal details and send it to that secret spy base in Belconnen.

Just don’t tell anyone I told you that!

They ask that stuff simply to make easier for themselves when they do the “Post Enumeration Survey” – this is a more detailed mini-census where they really dig into the lives of a sub-group of the population and then use the results to check the validity of the main census.

This really gives you faith in the ABS constant reassurances that all person information is safe with them, when they can’t even get their shit together to make sure the things are collected properly!

Is it just me, or does anyone else here think it’s kind of unneccessary for the ABS to be asking for your name and address, when supposedly the details are only for statistical research?

Did they wave their little card at you as they fell under a rain of blows?

Good on yas! I just went and smacked out one of the real ones!!

Not that I’d expect a bunch of pen pushers to think of this but wouldn’t it make sense to at least show a very small example of what the “Official ID card” looks like? Anyone with a decent PC can knock up an ‘official’ looking ID card within minutes these days. Even if they decided to copy the small example it’ll still take a lot longer than doing one freestyle.

as has already been said.
a census form gives you a pretty good idea of the value of a property, and when its likely to be empty (ie, if it says 2 people live there, and they each work 40 hours a week, and have an income of 50K each, you can establish they are likely not home during the day. etc.