A man in Chapel Hill, N.C., had a bit of trouble keeping his McCain-Palin signs in his highly visible yard, so he electrified them and put a camera up to watch them. He set the shock low so no one would get hurt and posted little warning signs. A bit later: “A neighbor trotting up with an Obama-Biden sign, grabbing a handful of volts as he touched a McCain-Palin sign, then fleeing at top 9-year-old boy speed.” The boy’s father was upset, saying the boy just wanted to see how the signs were put together. Perhaps the kid carried an Obama sign sleeve with him all the time as a safety blanket.
You know, the more I think about this story, the more mad it makes me. Parents should not defend their children in this behavior. If we don’t teach our children to respect others’ right to their opinion, the republic is lost.
Yeah, removing yard signs is juvenile as is defending your kid when he’s done something bad.
I forgot to write in the post that a co-worker of mine said her yard signs were removed within a day or so of placement–not the ones from her yard but the ones at popular intersections. Oddly enough, I haven’t seen many national signs in my area at all. Lots of local election signs, but few McCain signs and only two Obama signs. We don’t have a sign, but we do have bumper stickers. I even bought several and handed them out to co-workers.