I am 58 years old and this has never happened to me until today.

[joshcryer]

38. That story actually warms my heart.

That a student would confess to stealing a sign (a felony I think, if a DA went to the fullest extent of the law). I like that story at lot. It means that people can still understand what they did wrong and that they'll remedy it when they're faced with the repercussions.

Fortunately I've never had to deal with sign theft though I know it is rampant in every election and sign thieves are the worst (why bother? I'll never understand it). I did have a Dean sign up back in 2004 but that was during the primaries and I removed it when he started losing. But it wasn't even taken down by Kerry fans or even anti-Dems. It sat there in my yard, in a deeply southern state, until I removed it. My bumber sticker remained pro-Dean until I sold my car. No scratches, no abuse of that kind. I know it happens and I read about it a lot but somehow I managed to avoid it. I did have an Obama sticker on my car (edit: in 2008) but that didn't change that my radio was stolen, antenna snapped off, and back window smashed in. I think the hooligans / thieves are apolitical. Maybe that's the problem.