JOHN MCCAIN supporters are stealing political campaign signs
Certainly, Obama supporters are stealing McCain political campaign signs, and to suggest otherwise would be naïve, but McCain supporters appear to be more predatory about taking political campaign signs off private property. However, Obama supporters are fighting back. From the Daily Kos:
In McCain’s home state of Arizona, the Obama signs seem to disappear the most. In one neighborhood, Obama yard signs consistently disappear so soon after being planted in the yards that Melinda Applegate and her sister Ellen Pierce formed a neighborhood group of almost a half dozen homes to purchase yard signs in bulk from the Obama campaign. Applegate and Pierce have gone through nearly $120 in Obama yard signs since the primary nominees were determined. In addition, the neighborhood group tries to provide replacement signs quickly to neighbors whose signs are stolen or defaced.
Applegate, Pierce, and another neighbor who lives about half a block away became so exasperated that they each purchased surveillance cameras, and trained them on the signs in their yards. Saturday afternoon, the surveillance efforts of both neighbors paid off. Both captured video of the same woman stealing Obama signs from each of their yards.
Applegate and Pierce’s video captured a car driving by, stopping to show their middle finger to the yard sign, and then driving away. A minute or two later, an SUV drives by, slows beside the sign, turns around, and parks on the side of the street by the sign. As the driver gets out of her SUV, another car drives by. Clearly experienced at this, the sign thief shows no trepidation — she simply pretends to fix her bra strap and tie her shoes. As the other car disappears, she reaches into the back of the SUV to make room for the sign. When the other car is completely out of sight, she darts across the sidewalk, uproots the yard sign, chucks it into the back of her SUV, and makes an exceedingly quick getaway.
Melinda Applegate and Ellen Pierce’s homemade video can be found here, and more citizens taking action can be found at Flickr:
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Thanks for this - someone cleared our Anchorage neighborhood out of signs for Democratic candidates. The ideas showcased here are AWESOME and will be replicated here.
Cindy
17 Oct 08 at 12:23 pm