AUSTIN, Texas--I had a situation here in Texas where I went through my questions with a couple, and halfway through the wife decided she had enough so she said, randomly, "OK, I'm calling the cops you can't be a real census taker" so I say, "OK, I'll go wait in my car. "
Then the cop shows up and walks up to me and I tell him that I just went through a few questions when the woman snapped (at this point they were in the driveway standing and pointing and yelling at everyone walking by that the person in the car was trying to scam them). The policeman said he'd go talk with them and clear things up.
So I wait about 10 minutes and he comes back looking pissed. He tells me that after a minute of talking to them they decided that HE WAS ALSO FAKE. They had this story in their head that I was working with him and he intercepted their 911 call and showed up first to try to help me scam them. It was WILD. He said I could leave but he was going to have to wait until Texas DPS showed up to clear up that he was real....yet he said they probably would also think they were fake.
--Austin Anonymous