Hanged Census worker had local ties as Boy Scout leader
TAMPA - Grant Martin says he began to tear up when he read an e-mail Thursday night titled "Hey Scouters!"
A friend had forwarded an old message from fellow Boy Scout leader Bill Sparkman, who was found hanged in rural Kentucky in mid-September, possibly while working for the U.S. Census Bureau. Someone apparently scrawled the word "Fed" on his chest with a felt-tip pen.
Friends who originally received the message sent it to others after word spread of Sparkman's death, adding their own reflections on his life.
Martin got up and hugged his wife after reading it.
"It just hit me," he said today, tearing up again. "It just really hit me."
Sparkman grew up and became an Eagle Scout in Mulberry. Sparkman and Martin, also an Eagle Scout, met while working at Flaming Arrow Scout Reservation in Lake Wales in the early 1980s.
Martin said he was the more athletic of the two, the one who liked to rough it up. Sparkman was artistic, a guy who reveled in performing campfire skits that left people howling.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/25/hanged-census-worker-had-local-ties-boy-scout-lead/news-breaking/Well, there it is. He was an evil Boy Scout leader. Those on the right railed publicly about how evil govt workers are, and those on the left railed about how evil someone involved in the boy scouts are.
Either way, this guy was surrounded by folks who hated him.
No wonder he wound up dead, he pissed off people not like him.