My Obama yard sign didn't last 6 hours

[DougieZero]

I'm 26 years old and have put a yard sign in my yard for the last 2 elections. I have never had a problem. I live in a very racial hotbed area in Saginaw. The whites live in the suburbs, blacks in the city. I'm white and I was even called the N-word by a neighbor who thought I was breaking into his car a few weeks ago (I was just walking late at night, staying fit).

Well, I paid my $20 after shipping to the campaign for a yard sign. There are McCain signs everywhere in my neighborhood, so I thought it was time.

It didn't even last a few hours. It was shredded, missing poles and bent on the side of the road. I had a bet with my brother how long it would last, I won.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Perfectly unsurprising

[Pirate Smile]

2. Get another one. People have all kinds of things they do to try to keep their signs from being

vandalized which wont cause them to be liable to any jackass who tries to destroy your sign.

Don't let the bastards win. :)

[formercia]

27. Leave them a present.

the type that fold onto a metal frame can be rigged to dispense a foul smelling liquid if tilted. Use your imagination.

You can also get a game camera with an infrared sensor that will take their picture if the perps come in range.

[Ganja Ninja]

46. Yup

They could try going down to an art supply store and getting some heavy slow drying permanent ink (the kind that comes in a tube) to rub on the back side of the sign. Then after it disappears just look around the neighborhood for the guy with ink stains on his car or front door.

[formercia]

48. A large glossy color print of them doing the dirty deed is best.

Just hand it to the police and file charges.

Trolling for assholes.

[EFerrari]

3. Maybe you need a "Klan for MKKKain" sign.

[DFW]

34. Warning--if you do that....

You'll need a lot of extra vases for the flowers they leave you..

[EFerrari]

65. I'd like to see a timed comparison myself.

:)

[Aqaba]

4. Sit on your front porch....

...with a shotgun and bottle of whiskey at your feet.

[babylonsister]

5. Perfect!

:rofl: :hi:

[KingOfLostSouls]

8. I support this idea

shoot first, ask questions later


just yell "DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS" when you do it


its trespassing, republicans support shooting people for that. you could make sean hannity defend you on live tv.

[pipi_k]

37. It's better if you shoot them in the back, though

Then you become a national hero.



(no offense to any of the smarter Texans here)

[Guaranteed]

41. Yeah, but what if they're white?

You know that's always a different story.

[Fud]

44. Another idea

Spray the sign with pepper oil, That stuff is wicked hot and when they think they got their jollies ripping out the sign well. Then they like touch the eye and it will burn for ages and even when holding the pecker when aiming to take a piss.

Don't know what else you can do cept make a pile of dogshit around the sign and watch them step and slide on it.

[DavidMS]

69. What about Urushiol?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol

If you can find it...

Paint the sign with it and see how the ditto-head does with getting poison ivy exposure from the sign.

Should work...

Good luck!

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Smart neighbors...McSame will surely save Saginaw

[lonestarnot]

7. Replace it with 10 more.

[Agent William]

9. Wow, and I thought I had it rough

I think someone already beat me to it, but either replace the sign with many more signs, or, replace it with a single large sign. It may be an eye sore but it gets your message across. The point is that you cannot let 'them' win.

[nc4bo]

10. ok, big mama voice of reason coming on in...

If you're going to order another sign ok - use that or, go and print out your own sign. UPS Stores, Kinkos or any printing shop could do it for you (download the .pdf file and put on cd and take it to them) with your new sign or your sign on cd. Have them make you a bunch of copies of that sign, it won't cost you much either, do as many as you think you'll need.

Now you have a bunch of signs ready to go. Wrap in saran wrap or that laminate stuff you can get at Office Max or Staples, seal with tape (laminate is self sealing), have a few poles ready and you're good.

Man, forget them stupid ignorant people. It's a free world ffs.

Edited to add the link from the Resource Libary on Obama's website: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/actioncenter/resourcelibrary/

[blogslut]

11. Someone on here said they applied chili oil to their signs

I would spray it all over each (coated) sign and the stake too. Wear gloves. ;)

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

17. Chili oil may not be strong enough.

Go straight for the habanero pepper juice. Though the oil would also make it slippery.

How about Tiger Balm? It's greasy AND it burns like a muthafucka (especially if you ain't used to it)

[Norrin Radd]

20. Love the screen name.

Welcome to DU!

[Ignis]

50. Gazpacho Soup!

Welcome, Ace.

:hi:

[alfredo]

68. Get rubber gloves and habanero peppers, cut one and rub it around

where you know he will touch it. When he sticks his finger up his nose or rubs his eyes, he will have instant enlightenment.

[Renew Deal]

54. Or pepper spray

Hose it down with pepper spray. Once the person touches their nose of face, the party begins. :cry:

[proud patriot]

12. I'm sorry that happened

they once stole a sign from me .. I replaced it with a homemade sign
which read "A republican stole my sign"

[Franc_Lee]

13. Make one out of metal run some wires and plug into your electricity

rig it up so it puts out the same amps as a taser gun...?

[Marr]

14. There are lots of ways to booby-trap it.

:)

[Speck Tater]

15. Make sure it's well lighted and point a video camera at it. NT

[EFerrari]

16. Or, put it inside a window. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

18. My SO had the same problem when he had yard signs for Sen. Clinton and Gov. Spitzer in the last

election. What the hell is wrong with people?!:shrug:

But I did read a funny story, during the last election, took place in Denver, where my cousin lives, so sent it to her. This guy and his wife were running around trashing Democratic yard signs. He managed to knock himself out in some guy's yard, got tangled in a clothesline, and the guy called the cops, so they were both arrested, with a van full of other people's yard signs...:D

[whistler162]

19. Coat the next one in Poison Oak or Sumac.

[fujiyama]

21. That's pretty pathetic

and speaks very poorly of the people of Saginaw. Considering the shape it's in (along with the rest of the state), I mean, how fucking stupid are they to support a republican after all that?

I really can't say how glad I am to be out of that state.

[Indi Guy]

22. I have a friend in North Carolina who's had his Obama sign destroyed many times...

He bought them in bulk beforehand.

He always has a fresh sign on his lawn ;)

[pecwae]

26. Those NC crackerjacks.

[Lex]

53. There's dozens of undisturbed Obama signs in my neighborhood in NC

and hardly any McCain ones. I think there's 1 sign for McCain. Oh, and no one feels the need to bother the McCain one.

[ColbertWatcher]

23. You should post a Moran-proof sign, one that says...

...cowardly McCain supporters vandalize other people's property!

2008!

[mwb970]

35. I don't think it was "mccain supporters" who took the sign.

I think it was ignorant racist Limbaugh/Hannity Foxhounds. I doubt that they know anything at all about mccain, but they do know that Obama is a black radical Muslim terrorist. The OP is lucky he wasn't killed!

(BTW, when you move, don't move to Arkansas! I hear it's worse.)

[ColbertWatcher]

49. By "mccain supporters" I mean GOPhers. n/t

[Lasher]

24. When rats get cornered...

Obama is currently leading in the polls by an average of 4.6%.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html#chart

George W. Bush approval continues to run below 30%.

[barbtries]

25. too bad you didn't have a camera

trained on the sign. you could have given the troublemakers some trouble. what assholes.

[safeinOhio]

28. Most sporting goods stores sell

trail cameras. You set them up and it sense movement and FLASHES a picture. Be sure to put it high enough so they can't reach it. Best part is they'll know they are on film.

[galledgoblin]

57. this is an awesome idea

kudos!

[otohara]

72. But Then What?

the police won't help you - you can't go after someone this nutty.

[galledgoblin]

76. I think the cops would do something at least

if you have clear-cut evidence of vandalism like that, they'd probably HAVE to do some follow-up.

[usregimechange]

29. Stake out with video and take it to the police after the local media

[kitfalbo]

30. Study

Someone needs to do this with a camera and collect video's then file police reports. Do it multiple times once they get 3 idiots send it to the news media and maybe this crap can get cut down on.

[4_TN_TITANS]

31. Weird here in Tennessee...

I didn't think my signs would last either, but they've been up for two months and running. This election is mum here. * won this county easily in the last two elections and because of the situation they are in now, people finally realize how badly they have been duped by the Repubs. There are no Obama or McSame signs anywhere, I guess everybody will either stay home or secretly vote for Obama. There were signs everywhere in 2004.

[AdvancedProgress]

43. It's kind of suspicious...

that we're not seeing as many W stickers as we did a few years ago here in Metro either.

:rofl:

[Ahpook]

62. Same thing here in East Tn.

No troubles so far for the Obama signs, and i haven't seen any for McCain.

It is shocking:)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

32. Great........

No wonder McLame has a chance in Michigan.....

[Mopar151]

33. Sreel plate

1/8" is fine - get a peice cut to the size of your sign, weld on legs of rebar or pipe.
Attach the sign(s) to your backer with spray adhesive. Use mailing tube to cover the leg(s).
Watch the fun.......

[RB TexLa]

36. Put broken glass around the next one.

[beac]

67. Or coat it in pepper spray!

[northofdenali]

38. My parent's had JFK signs. Big ones. Long time ago.

They got smeared with FRESH dog shit.

I had Clinton signs.

They got knocked over, and we put 'em back up.

The last time someone hit my car (it wasn't easy, I drive a Jeep) it hit my Obama sticker.

Sigh.

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose.

I live surrounded by military and half of them, at least, have Obama stickers. The Stryker Brigade here is going to Iraq next month. I've seen a few Obama signs INSIDE the Humvees (real ones, not the Upper Class Cuz I Can Afford It ridiculous ones).

Keep on keeping on. Hold fast. That is what the liberty, freedom, and life in the US is all about. HOLD FAST to the dream.

[Leftist Agitator]

39. Bury a few 12 gauge blanks in the ground with a pushpin epoxied to the primer.

No one will ever fuck with your signs ever again.

After I lost 3 Kerry signs over the span of four nights in 2004, this is what I had to resort to. Mind you, I lived in a rural area, where one could do something like this. Your milage may vary.

I stayed up late to see what would happen to sign number 4... at about 3:30 A.M. some local yahoo rolls up in his pickup truck, cuts the lights, creeps up to my new sign, and... BOOM!!!

I like to think that he shit himself. In any case, my sign stayed up for another two months, all the way into November.

[Snotcicles]

70. Wire the next one up to an elec. fence charge. nt

[LWolf]

40. Hmmm

If you can find enough people in your community to pool funds,

rent a billboard.

[SmokingJacket]

42. My friend hangs her signs from a tree limb with chains.

She used to keep a stack of them (anti-Bush signs for a few years, now Obama signs) on her porch to immediately replace the stolen ones. But now no one has touched the one in her tree.

I live in a heavily Obama neighborhood, and my two signs have been out for months.

[Contrary1]

45. Is there a circus nearby?

Go get a load of elephant dung and spread it generously five feet around the sign on all four sides.
They are probably too stupid to catch the irony, but at least they will have to buy new shoes.

[greenman3610]

47. I was visiting a heavily repub area of northern mich last week

we saw signs for the local GOP congressman, we saw a ton of local signs,
amazinlgy, a large contingent of Obama signs, and not a one for Mccain.

[AlCzervik]

51. i put my Kerry signs in my windows. I will do the same with Obama signs.

[snooper2]

52. Take some 2x4's and line them with 4 inch nails..

go out early in the morning and dig up part of your yard and bury the 2x4 only leaving the nails up in the grass..

Then put your sign in the "safe" area in middle of 2x4's

:evilgrin:

[AlCzervik]

55. don't forget the trip wires!

[alittlelark]

56. Next time use 'Tanglefoot' on all the edges.

The stuff is worse than pine sap. The sign stealer will get it on their hands, their clothes, their car.... It's almost impossible to get off hands, the clothes are ruined, and they'll be spending hours w/ GooGone trying to get it off their car or front door.

Tanglefoot is also cheap, non-toxic and invisible. You can find it at nurseries and garden supply stores.:evilgrin:

[onethatcares]

58. that's a bird repellant, isn't it?

we have some at work, I've never used it but the directions say it makes the birds stick to whatever you put it on when they land. That seems like a cruel thing to do to birds, but sign stealing buttwipes, yeah.

[hogwyld]

60. Used the stuff to keep creepy crawlys

out of my fruit plants. Put a layer around the tree trunk, and that's where the ants and other critters would get stuck.

[alittlelark]

61. It's a bug blocker - you circle the base of a plant w/it

Ants and other buggies can't pass it - it's similar to using copper wire to stop snails.

I've never seen or heard it advertised as a bird repellent...

[onethatcares]

63. thanx for both replies.

the stuff I was talking about makes a bird stick to where it lands, the bird dies and the others see it. A gaudawful way of repelling things if you ask me.

Sounds like a great thing to put on a sign, along with some habenero juice.

[iamthebandfanman]

59. weird

my brothers and others in my area have had signs up in their yard since april/may and they are still there and untouched.

[scarletwoman]

64. You might find this old thread from the 2004 election interesting.

Several helpful suggestions for protecting lawn signs:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1089644

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[jbnow]

66. Sorry that happened. I have sign in my window

and if you go that way it doesn't even have to be a yard sign...just a big sign. That's the real reason the sign is in my window, I got the cheaper sign. And a shirt.

Of course if your neighborhood is that bad I hope they don't break the window to get at it.

A spotlight and a ferocious guard dog could help protect a yard sign but might be too far to go.
I didn't know Saginaw was a racial hotbed. I am sick of racial hotbeds and ire. I've heard rumors that we are quite similar under our skin and that we are all humans.

If we need to feel superior and hate some group can't it be mosquitoes or something?

[mzmolly]

71. My van has been keyed twice since we put on the sticker. I got similar

treatment when I had a Kerry bumper sticker so I hope it's not racially motivated?

I always have a back up yard sign. I went through three Wellstone signs when we supported him in 02, and more than one Kerry sign.

I'm sorry that your sign has been vandalized. The best justice is to get an eight foot sign and grease the posts with a black auto grease. That's what my husband did. I worked great! :hi:

[defendandprotect]

73. I'd be careful what you do .....because these are really stupid people . . .

and in my town, they ran a truck up onto someone's lawn -- really roughing up the lawn ---

knocked over and smashed the sign ---

[madeline_con]

74. This is fear in the Repug ranks.

That's what makes them violent.

They are SO afraid of Obama.

[AngryOldDem]

75. This happened to me several times in 2004.

Had a handful of Kerry signs ripped off from my yard. And this year I am waiting for someone to vandalize my car because it has an Obama sticker. It will happen, guaranteed.

I have to wonder how far some would go to deny basic freedom of speech and association, if not plain old simple difference of opinion. But then again, I don't want to know.

I hope you did report it as vandalism. It was your property, it was on your property. And it's important to notify the law, especially if other signs seem to suffer the same fate as yours.

ON EDIT: I've heard that putting grease or oil on the poles works. Anything sticky or messy that can't been readily detected in the dead of night.

[krispos42]

77. Get a "decorative" rock

about the size of a clothes dryer. Put it in the middle of your lawn. Paint your Obama sign right on it with a good exterior paint..

You can do that by tracing out the sign on a transparancy sheet and projecting it on the rock using a projector. Just trace the lines as they are projected on the rock, then paint.

Let'em try to move that one!