Sign battle starts with a zzzzzzzt!

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[DemonDeac]

CHAPEL HILL - After Shawn Turschak saw two sets of McCain-Palin signs disappear from his yard within hours of being planted, he took steps to protect the latest pair. On Monday, he ran wires from his house and hooked the signs into a power source for an electric pet fence. Then he mounted a surveillance camera in a nearby tree and wired it to a digital recorder.

Tuesday afternoon, the camera saw this: 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.

A few minutes later, the boy's father, Andrew Noble, was at Turschak's door, demanding an explanation from Turschak's 13-year-old daughter, who called her parents on the phone to say a man was yelling at her. Both families agree on one aspect of the exchange, that Noble chastised her for "electrocuting" his son, then left.

Noble told an investigator that the boy had been trying to pull up the McCain sign so that he could see how it was constructed, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said he doesn't plan to file charges. The deputy who investigated Tuesday said the pet-fence setup probably was legal, Turschak said, but perhaps more trouble than it was worth. Turschak said Wednesday morning that he would pull the plug on the signs. The camera, though, stayed.

[Red Badger]

Noble told an investigator that the boy had been trying to pull up the McCain sign so that he could see how it was constructed

That lie is sooooo lame, dude...............

[1rudeboy]

What will be missed in all the static of this story is the fact that the miscreant is a 9-year-old. Stealing and replacing political yard signs. Think about it.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Child abuse by the sperm donor of the little sneak thief.

[edzo4]

its constructed the same way as the obama sign you were trying to replace it with you liberal liar

[reagan_fanatic]

Noble told an investigator that the boy had been trying to pull up the McCain sign so that he could see how it was constructed

Oh, good Lord. Not even a 9 year-old would believe that line.

[avacado]

Maybe that jolt of electricity will turn the little brat into a bed wetter! His Obama voting lying Father deserves nothing less.

[MrB]

This is how libs raise their kids,

and how they want YOUR kids to behave as well.

That’s why they despise homeschoolers - they can’t get their liberal mits on them.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I be worried about the legality of that method. I prefer rubbing my signs with poison ivy. Yeah, the sign still gets stolen, but my neighbor’s 14 year old kid has a bad case of poison ivy now. And he can’t figure out why I don’t have him cutting my grass anymore. He’s paying the price!

[RandallFlagg]

This has been posted before, but not with such detail. Thank you for posting.

Details such as this:

Turschak said Wednesday morning that he would pull the plug on the signs. The camera, though, stayed.

And Wednesday afternoon while the Turschaks were at a daughter's soccer game, it captured an angry-looking woman striding up.

"We got home and both signs were gone," he said. "Broad daylight."

Pathetic librat scum, these people.

[dools007]

Typical lib-Marxist terrorist. Send the children out to do the dirty work.

[netmilsmom]

Honestly, this is even better than spreading poison ivy on your sign!!

[Andonius_99]

Both families agree on one aspect of the exchange, that Noble chastised her for "electrocuting" his son, then left.

Not to nitpick, but if the kid had been "electrocuted," he wouldn't have been able to run home, because he would have been dead...

[SueRae]

Mine got taken last night - it will be replaced with 20 more by the end of today...along with one about 1st (and 2ND) amendment rights.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Hmmm. Child being taught to steal. Multiple times. Parent lies to cover. First sign didn’t furnish info on “how it was constructed”, did it? Cardboard. Stick. Staples.

[SECURE AMERICA]

So some bottom feeding Obamite sent his 9 year old to steal neighbors signs.
Truly a member of the Obama cult...

[antiRepublicrat]

I am very disappointed with the lying skills our kids are learning from their parents these days. The kid will never grow up to be an effective Democrat with this poor education.

[mewzilla]

Libs are all for free speech.

SNORT.