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Boy Zapped Trying To Swap Political Yard Signs
WILM ^ | October 31, 2008

Posted on 10/31/2008 4:16:49 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776

As the boy attempts to make the switch, he's zapped by electricity and runs away. A boy from North Carolina was caught on tape trying to swap signs from John McCain to Barack Obama.

The video posted on YouTube.com shows a 9-year-old boy creeping up to a McCain/Palin yard sign outside of a home with an Obama sign.

As the boy attempts to make the switch, he's zapped by electricity and runs away.

Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill, says he was tired of people swapping out his sign, so the home owner with a degree in electrical engineering hooked up the sign to an electric pet fence.

The boy's father, upset about the shock later showed up at Turschak's door, along with a sheriff's deputy.

No charges have been filed.

(Excerpt) Read more at wilm.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: freepun; ratcrime; zotted
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Wonder if his name was Dennis the Menace.
1 posted on 10/31/2008 4:16:49 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

ZOT!!!


2 posted on 10/31/2008 4:17:45 PM PDT by Kukai
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To: AmericanMade1776

Political sign stealer.

3 posted on 10/31/2008 4:18:40 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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To: Kukai

Kukai
Since Oct 16, 2008

What do you mean by Zot? Do you know?


4 posted on 10/31/2008 4:19:28 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Okay, anyone want to start a pool on how soon Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill has his tax filings and such examined?


5 posted on 10/31/2008 4:19:59 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: AmericanMade1776
The boy's father, upset about the shock later showed up at Turschak's door, along with a sheriff's deputy.

For what?

6 posted on 10/31/2008 4:20:03 PM PDT by johniegrad
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The boy’s “father” should be more concerned he’s raising a thief and a thug. Perhaps the acorn (or is it ACORN?) doesn’t fall far from the tree.


7 posted on 10/31/2008 4:20:40 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Yes on California Proposition 8; thwart the radical homosexual movement)
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To: AmericanMade1776

No more mortgage payments or paying for gas in your car - the GOVERNMENT will pay for it!

This is the mindset of the typical Obama supporter.

See video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381gFG4Crr8


8 posted on 10/31/2008 4:21:09 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Kukai

who wants to bet the father told the boy to go steal the sign


9 posted on 10/31/2008 4:21:13 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: AmericanMade1776

I love the video. I watched it like 8 times in a row this morning. Was raving about it to my wife tonight. That guy is a STUD. Not only does he wire up his sign. Not only does he actually ZOT a violator, not only does he get it on video...but it becomes a national story. If I were that guy I’d be walking on air.


10 posted on 10/31/2008 4:21:18 PM PDT by Huck (Teddy Roosevelt vs. Che Guevera)
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What do you mean by Zot? Do you know?

I think he was just referring to the kid getting a shock.

11 posted on 10/31/2008 4:21:22 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: AmericanMade1776

Typo. Must have meant “ZAP!”


12 posted on 10/31/2008 4:21:41 PM PDT by GBA
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To: AmericanMade1776

This is somewhat shocking, funny, and yet sad at the same time.
A resident of Chapel Hill, N.C., was very upset that someone kept stealing his McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard.
So, Shawn Turschak decided to do something about it! And, being an electrical engineer really helped.
Earlier this week, Turschak decided to hook up a third sign to a power source belonging to an electric pet fence. He also hooked up a surveillance camera to catch the thief.
And, to everyone’s surprise, this time around it was a 9 year-old boy, with an Obama-Biden sign in his hand, that grabbed the McCain sign and got a jolt of electricity.
The child’s father is upset that his son got shocked, so he showed up at Turschak’s door along with an Orange County Sheriff.
As for the boy’s dad, he says his kid just wanted to see how the sign was put together.
Riiiiiight.
Turschak says the boy intended to swap out the signs.
But, in Turschak’s defense, he did put up signs warning of electrical shocks.
No charges are said to be filed and Turschak did remove the electric shockers.
The following day, though, his camera caught another person stealing another McCain-Palin sign off his property!
This is somewhat shocking, funny, and yet sad at the same time.
A resident of Chapel Hill, N.C., was very upset that someone kept stealing his McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard.
So, Shawn Turschak decided to do something about it! And, being an electrical engineer really helped.
Earlier this week, Turschak decided to hook up a third sign to a power source belonging to an electric pet fence. He also hooked up a surveillance camera to catch the thief.
And, to everyone’s surprise, this time around it was a 9 year-old boy, with an Obama-Biden sign in his hand, that grabbed the McCain sign and got a jolt of electricity.
The child’s father is upset that his son got shocked, so he showed up at Turschak’s door along with an Orange County Sheriff.
As for the boy’s dad, he says his kid just wanted to see how the sign was put together.
Riiiiiight.
Turschak says the boy intended to swap out the signs.
But, in Turschak’s defense, he did put up signs warning of electrical shocks.
No charges are said to be filed and Turschak did remove the electric shockers.
The following day, though, his camera caught another person stealing another McCain-Palin sign off his property!
http://www.fashion.ie/aggregator/gossip/120061-mccain-will-electrify-you-literally


13 posted on 10/31/2008 4:22:14 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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You can’t tell me a 9 year old is interested in politics so much to steal signs. Apparently his father wasn’t man enough to do it himself so he sent his kid. Disgusting.


14 posted on 10/31/2008 4:23:07 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't give up hope, stand up and fight, America is worth fighting for!)
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To: johniegrad

K...


15 posted on 10/31/2008 4:23:09 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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To: Kukai

Ahh... man... i’m disappointed!...

Looked more like the kid got something sticky on his hands, and he was trying to shake it off.

I was hoping for at least a little bit of a “Yelp” or a jump in the air, or maybe even a little bit of crying!

The guy needs to turn up the voltage, and sell online viewing slots where participants can rate the shocks!

That one scored a weak 3 out of 10.


16 posted on 10/31/2008 4:23:23 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: AmericanMade1776

It appears the lessons about going on anothers property and stealing something is lost on the tyke’s father as well.

Kids will do things - Sounds as though father is lost.


17 posted on 10/31/2008 4:23:41 PM PDT by LFOD (IRAQ - Back in Dixie)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Child Abuse by ITS sperm donor and his HO (don't call them
parents) for teaching their get to be a sneak thief.
18 posted on 10/31/2008 4:24:36 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Obama and ITS thugs are made paranoid by Sarahnoia. (stole from molly_jack2007))
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To: McGruff
Not unlike gangs. Get the youngest kid without the arrest record to do the dirty work.

The "father" is a pile of dung.

19 posted on 10/31/2008 4:25:03 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Yes on California Proposition 8; thwart the radical homosexual movement)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Well, I can now join the ranks of McCain/Palin supporters whose sign was stolen. I noticed, this afternoon, that it was gone. Well, it was up for about a week anyway!


20 posted on 10/31/2008 4:26:11 PM PDT by sneakers
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