There is a story about a kid and a troll making the internet rounds. It got started at the 2010 Mule Day Liars' Contest in Maury County Tennessee. It sounds like a good joke that sounds real enough that people repeat it as true.

It is, however, funny even it is not a true story:

This lady I work with has a son who is autistic. Not like Rainman bad, but noticeable. So she has been taking him to these classes for around the last year so that he can stay by himself during the day while she is at work. Well this has been working for the last couple of months with no real problems. I’ve met the kid, he’s around 22 or 23, functional but still you can tell something is wrong with him.

So a couple of days ago at work he starts calling his mom and telling her that there is a troll in their closet and he is feeding it skittles. She just tells him thats nice and goes back to work..but he keeps calling and saying the same thing. So after a little over three hours of this he starts to tell her that the troll is getting mad and that she needs to come home.

After a few more calls she tells our boss that she has to go home to get him but she will be right back. She calls her son and basically yells at him that he isn’t going to stay by himself ever again..then she drives home and he meets her in the driveway with a hand full of skittles. The two of them walk into the front door and he throws the skittles against the door…his mom tells him to come over by the door and open it so she can show him that there is nothing there.

So he opens the door and lying on the floor in front of her……….is a midget census worker with his hands and feet bound and his mouth taped!!!!!…..

She said she stood there for a second without doing anything..her son ran off upstairs, and she started to untie the midget. She got his feet undone and he ran past her out of the door.

She went to get her son and he was very upset, he told her that he tried to feed him skittles because he wasn’t allowed to cook anything.

So the lady I work with called the police and told them what happened and they tracked down the census worker and pleaded with him not to press charges which he luckily has decided not to do.