Obama Supporter Vandalism. I cannot be the only one.

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[17th Miss Regt]

Sit on the porch with a shotgun...

Rock salt loads, heh, heh, heh.

[Dust in the Wind]

"And its not just limited to that, I am very fastidious about my 1.5 Acre lawn and ever since that sign went up all the yuppies that walk their dogs let them poop with abandon on it"

I think most people understood where crap fell...

[steve1848]

McCain / Palin sign out in front lawn less than 48 hours. Ridden over by someone on a bike riding through my lawn to get to it.

It’s back up, a little bent and battered, but still standing tall. Kind of like our candidate.

[germanicus]

This is a trick our local DPW has done for years. Kids were always doing chin-ups with the neighborhood street signs, bending them in the process. Each sign cost the department $40. to replace. Take a can of automotive anti-seize (never seize) compound and spread it liberally over all the edges and posts (wires) of the sign. What happens is that the compound, which is basically harmless, is made up of super-finely crushed glass and other chemicals and when you get it on your skin, it’s extremely difficult to remove. The sign busters tend to wipe their fingers on their pants to remove it and it ruins their clothing. We would laugh to see all the finger smear wipes on the ground next to a sign that was about to be destroyed. Liquid Permatex (form-a-gasket) in the bottle works even better.

[Brainhose]

Fantastic idea! LOL I’d like to see that on video

[Brainhose]

Obviously you are either mentally retarded or a Democrat (Which is the same thing) because I clearly stated that it was not only limited to my sign but that my lawn was also under attack.
Why don't you take off the beer-goggles and actually read a post before you make yourself out to be an a$$hole larger than that of a Blue Whale's

[curth]

Just a question out of my own curiosity. Has anyone here ever destroyed a political sign of an opponent of someone you support?

[netmilsmom]

I haven't seen the dogs, but also haven't seen any poo gifts left either.

I have seen the squirrels that try to dig up my newly planted bulbs for fall. I heard they LOVE Hyacinth bulbs. After losing 2 of the dozen I planted, I got the big container from Sams. Sprinkled them all over the bed.

You should see those squirrels jet away after snorting them!

[pjluke]

one trick i learned from some local campaigners during the 2004 Presidential election was to use a staple gun all around the edges on both sides of the sign. This way there are metal spines sticking out, waiting to stab whoever tries to run off with your sign. Don’t be surprised if you find bloody handprints on your signs, haha.

[no-s]

This stuff is just plain vile.

OTOH...heheh. After the 2000 election I emplaced a lot of “sore loserman” upgrades for folks in december and january. Usually just one sign in front of the other...

Also a buddy put kerry/edwards and move-on stickers on all 4 of his cars...after a couple of years of his son parking in front of my driveway I replaced the stickers with Ron Paul enhancements...took them a few weeks to notice - his son came over and parked in front of my drive as usual, my friend came over and pulled in behind the son’s car in a convertible...he started yelling at the boy and I snuck around behind and did the same thing to the convertible...heheh.

[tioga]

OMG! What a great idea! I am going to place that along the park across the street! LOL

[tioga]

Never.

[Vicki]

They slashed and wrote Obama over the 3’ x 5’ McCain/Palin sign on a fence near our house. Also my husband put out 25 signs this morning for our local state senate race and 2 hours later every single one of them was gone. We replaced them all.

[humblegunner]

So did you clean the poop off the sign or what?

[SamAdams76]

Just a question out of my own curiosity. Has anyone here ever destroyed a political sign of an opponent of someone you support?

I must say that I have an urge to kick over an Obama sign when I'm walking the dog but I would never do that. Even though my own yard sign has been kicked over or thrown into the woods twice this year already.

I'm not a big yard sign guy myself but I go out of my way to get one if my neighbors get one. In the 1996 election my next door neighbor got a Clinton/Gore sign and I just had to get a Dole/Kemp sign to counter even though I thought that the Dole/Kemp ticket was one of the worst tickets in GOP history and I knew they were going to lose. I put it at the edge of my yard as close as I could get it to the Clinton/Gore sign in the other yard and it was either kicked or knocked over pretty much every night but I kept getting out there in the morning to prop it back up.

Things got quiet in my neighborhood after that for a few election cycles. Then this year, the Obama signs started growing like weeds so I now have two McCain/Palin signs on either side of my yard, and again, I have to deal with them getting knocked over but not as much as in 1996. Also, there are other McCain/Palin signs sprouting up around the area but no bumper stickers as of yet.

[dbehsman]

I haven't. I don't know of any who have. I have never vandalized anybody’s signs, hats, shirts, posters, newspapers, pamphlets, etc. Political free speech means something to me.

I did flip the bird to a Wellstone supporter one time. It was right after the Wellstone memorial/rave party. I was driving through downtown Minneapolis and saw this pathetic looking simpering doofus clutching onto a Wellstone sign. I slowed down and majestically flipped him the bird. Didn't feel guilty about it then and I don't feel guilty about it now.