My Kerry-Edwards Yard Sign Was Torn To Shreds

[arwalden]

and the pieces tossed into my driveway.

Nice, eh?

-- Allen

[UrbScotty]

1. Did this just happen?

:wtf:

[arwalden]

5. Sometime Between 5PM Yesterday and 5PM Today!

Most likely it was done under the cover of night.

Republican jerks! Bush-loving FREAKS!

-- Allen

[DebJ]

2. probably beat their chests, gave a Tarzan yell, and said

Mine is bigger than yours and you have no right to free speech as they ripped it up.

[arwalden]

12. The "Calling Card" Of Violently RIPPING IT TO SHREDS Was Disturbing...

they didn't just STEAL IT or deface it... but felt the need to mutilate it to bits and sprinkle the bits in my driveway.

CREEPY!

-- Allen

[DebJ]

21. can you replace it with three more? That's what I'd do. And

if they take three, then I'd put up seven,etc, until my yard was nothing but signs and they'd get caught because it would take too long!

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. I like that idea!

Good one!

[Renew Deal]

3. Oh brother.

I can mail you out a plastic one. What state?

[Katherine2]

7. I put mine in a window

I hope no one breaks the window to rip up my sign. I wouldn't be that surprised, though.

[arwalden]

8. I Ordered A "Spare" From JohnKerry.Com... Just In Case.

But I've only got one... so depending on what happens next, I might take you up on that very kind offer! :-)
Thanks.
-- Allen

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Hope you can get another one

and also make a sign that says, "Only Republican Cowards Tear up Kerry/Edwards Signs".

[smirkymonkey]

56. Good Idea!

[stldemocrat]

6. Damn Repugs

[Shoeempress]

9. When you replace it, put on rubber gloves and take poison ivy

leaves and rub them all over it. Next time, if there is one, they'll have a nice way to remember that they did.

[richmwill]

10. That sucks, but...

I would take it as a badge of honor that whoever did it was so angered and is so worried about this election. We've got them running scared, DU'ers- keep going!!

[blondeatlast]

11. I had no sooner put my Kerry/Edwards sign on our gate Tuesday

when the local Hitler Youth ripped it off.

The GATE, that is, they didn't bother with the sign.

My husband caught them as they started to take off.

[1monster]

25. Are you pressing charges?

There are pros and cons about doing so, but... vandalism to the sign would have been plenty bad enough. To your gate is expensive and criminal.

[blondeatlast]

33. No; we'd prefer they just left us alone. These are kids who came by

earlier in the week wanting to clean our yard and got very nasty when we told them we had a service.

[Cha]

13. Sorry, your Kerry/Edwards sign got

Ripped! Someone on DU said they were going to put their's on the roof!

Another suggestion by a DUer is "Habanero juice"..hottest pepper!

Poison Ivy! We need to fight fire with fire!

I live in an apartment so I'm not putting any signs up but I do have my bumpersticker and pin on.

If I lived in a house I would per duers suggestions do one or all of the above!

Good Luck with your next sign!

[arwalden]

15. My partner wants to ELECTRIFY it...

but there's probably some law against setting booby traps.

-- Allen

[Gyre]

17. Not hard to electrify

Virtually impossible to actually electrocute somebody w/ a car battery. Might be funny and whoever gets zapped probably won't be going to the police to complain. http://engineering-ed.org/computer_repair/documents/ELECTROCUTION.doc

Gyre

[Maddy McCall]

41. DO IT, ALLEN!

[AFSCME girl]

14. Hi arwalden, I'm sorry

this happened to you. What's up with these damn freepers anyway?!! Another DUer had her car keyed......:wtf:

[mermaid]

16. Fuck 'Em...Shows How SCARED They Are!!

Put up five more signs...and I sure like the Poison Ivy idea...if I had a yard I would do that.
Habanero juice would be cool, too...

Better than poison Ivy, though?? Poision SUMAC!!! Believe it or not Sumac is far easier to get...and far harder to relieve...and itches a fuck of a lot worse than Ivy. I know, I live in Texas, and we have all three, Ivy, Oak, and Sumac here. And of the three, fuckin' Sumac is by far the worst!! I know, in my time I have gotten all three.

[mongo]

18. Tell the folks at your local Dem party HQ

1 yard sign ripped to shreds is a shame. 20 yard signs ripped to shreds is a newspaper story. The folks at HQ should be keeping track of this shit and reporting it to the local press.

[arwalden]

31. Excellent Idea!

Thanks!

-- Allen

[21winner]

19. Arm yourself.

Let them know.

[AlFrankenFan]

20. People are so polite

If I had a dollar for every Bush/Cheney sticker I had the opportunity to tear off a car, not only would I have a shitload of uncomfortable toilet paper, but I'd be able to benefit from the Bush tax cut. My point is, people (Republicans like that) should have a common courtesy to respect fellow humans political beliefs.

[MadMichDem]

22. I had 2 signs stolen from my yard and

I put 2 new ones up. Sprayed the entire surface, both sides, with canola oil cooking spray. Neither sign has been bothered and it's been a week. The others lasted less than 3 days.

[LiberalEsto]

23. Make an alarm

Set up a circle of stakes around and a few feet away from the sign. Link them with a long section of twine to act as a trip wire, and hang bells, wind chimes, cans, pieces of metal, etc. along the twine.

When they go after the signs, they'll trip on the twine and make a lot of noise. Maybe it will scare them off. Maybe they'll trip and fall flat on their ugly little faces.

If you want to spend a little money, get a motion-sensing floodlight and rig that up so the light will come on when they enter the yard.


Might as well have some fun with the jerks.

[Bunny]

24. Anyone know where that Parlock dude was in the last 24 hours?

Maybe he migrated to Allen's place? ;)

[Flammable Materials]

27. Quick! Take a picture of your daughter crying in front of it ...

... and send it to Drudge! Demand equal time!

Seriously, though, that sucks.

[Endangered Specie]

28. But poison ivy and/or a beehive around your sign next time...

If that is too much trouble, try a landmine.

[mermaid]

37. A Landmine?!?!!? Fuckin' LOL!!!! n/t

[Mz Pip]

29. Jeez, what a delightful

way to advocate for you candidate. :crazy: I truly am sick of these people.

I really like the poison ivy idea. These jerks probably get hard-ons ripping down signs. A little poison ivy could go a long way to teach those creeps a lesson. :evilgrin:

MzPip
:dem:

[davsand]

32. I'm LMAO at the image that gave me:

mzpip said, "These jerks probably get hard-ons ripping down signs. A little poison ivy could go a long way to teach those creeps a lesson." :evilgrin:



All I can think of is how freaked they will be if they "take matters into their own hands" immediately after--and then have to explain how they got that itchy oozing rash on their boy parts...


Laura

[bobthedrummer]

30. JUST LIKE THE BROWNSHIRTS DID DURING THE THIRD REICH.

[mark414]

34. did your daughter cry?

quick, to GD2004 where we can have 8 million threads about it!

[Baja Margie]

35. They are becomming more and more hostile and dangerous,

We had to cancel our surf-rock'roll huge bash that was listed on the Kerry Voluteer site, I accidentally listed the e-mail public and received threats, like "How you gonna like it when your house burns down?"...etc, etc, so we cancelled it.

What a bummer. Do me a favor, and go over to www.bajanet.com or www.bajanomad.com and give these guys a hard time, bunch of re-necked neanderthals !

[mongo]

52. I know you're scared but you really shouldn't give in to

intimidation. Did you report the threats to the police? If they were e-mail, they can be traced.


Check the front of the phone book for what to do about threatening calls. Here *57 activates a trace. This will work if there is no caller id info. *57 will trace the call and I think it tells you to call another number to speak to a phone co rep. They will not relase the number to you, but if you make a police report they will release it to the cops. (There is a charge for using *57)

Each time someone makes a threat like this and it goes unpunished, the person just gets bolder and more anti-social. If someone threatens harm to you or your property, they can be charged with menacing at least.

[Dude_CalmDown]

36. Tape it back together with clear packing tape and put it up again.

Show the rest of the neighborhood what childish wads these idiots really are.

[MaineDem]

44. "They hate us for our freedom"

I'd post that with the taped up sign!

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

38. hehe.... it just reminds me of what I did last Friday.

I had friends over and we were looking for way to amuse ourselves. I have a German mountain hat, a bow and arrows, and a blanket that resembles a cape. So I dressed up like Robin hood, ran across the street to the local Republican's house, screaming. Then I took their Bush/Cheney sticker off of their car (They had two more on the same car) and went running down the streets screaming "I TAKE FROM THE RICH AND GIVE TO THE POOR!!!!!!!" Then I put it in someone's garbage can and came back screaming.

They never figured out who it was, nor do I think they cared.

Yes, I am very odd. :D

[Dem2theMax]

43. You should have filmed that. And posted it here.

The description alone had me literally LOL. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Aren't you in PG County?

I thought most of us were democrats here! Sorry about your sign...Maybe you should rub hot peppers all over the next one. They might shred that one too; but at least they'll painfully regret it.

How'd you make out in the tornado-fest?

[arwalden]

46. Yes!!! That's Yet Another Aspect Of This That's Very Strange...

huu-dah thunkit would happen in Prince George's county, Maryland??

We were all prepared for the tornados. We listened carefully to the TV and radio broadcasts and prepared our little safe spot (safe?) in the center of the house. Fortunately there was no need to use them. Thanks for asking!!

-- Allen

P.S. Seattle doesn't have tornados, does it?

[Maddy McCall]

40. I say put a moat of pungy sticks around it.

That'll teach the chickenshit fuckers. :-)

[BayouBengal07]

42. My friend and I

Had our Kerry bumperstickers torn off our cars.

[arwalden]

47. My Darwin Plaque Was Stolen Off Of My Car...

... but that was a couple of years ago. My Kerry stickers remain on my car unharmed.

-- Allen

[Blue Gardener]

45. I'm bringing mine in at night

I don't trust the brownshirts that live up the street. It's a rental house with several college age guys, but they have Bush/Cheney signs out front. I don't think they would try anything during the day since the neighbors in my immeduate vicinity generally look out for each other, but under cover of darkness I think they would.

[arwalden]

48. That Sounds Like The Simplest Idea Yet... And Effective Too

But I do like the thought that our little brown-shirt Hitler youth would end up with poison-ivy blisters all over their face, arms and penis. Yes, penis! They'll eventually touch themselves down there... especially if they are out (underage?) drinking... they'll whiz wherever there's a dark shadow behind any shrub. And so the REAL fun begins!

-- Allen

[Blue Gardener]

49. That would be fun

But with my luck I'd probably wind up with the poison ivy myself.

[AngryOldDem]

53. I Think I've Seen These Guys

>>I don't trust the brownshirts that live up the street. It's a rental house with several college age guys,<<

They sound familiar. The other night I had a carful of these assholes stare me down while we were stopped at a light because of my K/E sticker. They were practically hanging out the windows looking at me as if they wanted to kill me. It was intimidating, unnerving, and maddening as hell. I'm grateful that they turned off while I went through the intersection.

It was all I could do not to flip them off -- not smart, I know. We'll just have to check back with these clowns should Bush get re-elected -- just may want to give them a going-away party the night before they leave for Iraq, or Iran, or North Korea, or...

[Blue Gardener]

54. I think I'll print out the "Draft Alert" sign

From blatanttruth.org, and leave it on their doorstep.

[otohara]

50. Sunroof Smashed to Pieces

on my hubby's car, they didn't do it to the one with the bumper stickers (my car) because it was in the driveway - assholes

[arwalden]

51. Nazi Brownshirt Fucks!

Bushitler Youth!

[Lady Effingbroke]

55. I bring my sign inside

when I leave for school in the morning, and put it out again when I get home at night. It's sad that I have to treat my sign like a pet, but I can only afford one, even at the reasonable cost of a $5 donation. I am also afraid to put a sticker on my truck, as people here (Houston) have had their vehicles' windows broken and paint "keyed" by the KKKompassionate KKKonservatives who cannot tolerate ANY disagreement with their narrow-minded zealotry. I know I'm a wuss, but I simply cannot afford to repair any damages possibly incurred by these a-holes.