A colleague had his daily morning newspaper repeatedly stolen.
One evening, he carefully rolled up a bunch of dog sh*t in a paper and bag.
And that was the end of that.
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He probably put the sign on the public easement in front of his home. Cities and villages routinely remove any signs put on any such public property. However, if the sign was up on the man’s front lawn the city would have no right to remove his sign.
Cities can generally ban yard signs as a regulation of commercial speech. But not political signs, which are protected by the First Amendment.
The police could take the sign down if it were illegally posted, but can they take his property away?
Wouldn’t they just pull it out of the ground and lay it down?
Or pull it out of the ground and bring it to his door and knock and explain that he can’t post the sign there?
It’s always such a surprise when the biggest supporters of the idea that only government law enforcement agents should have guns are often government law enforcement agents that have guns.
Westchester County. Hillary’s stomping grounds.
This Harry Homeowner will be lucky not to be charged.
I believe a recent act makes it a crime for citizen-comrades to annoy cops in New York state.
The sign annoyed the police, so they confiscated it.
Since the officer was in uniform wonder if homeowner can sue city/county civil court for violation of free speech etc?
A little used, nasty, black axle grease applied all along the sides of the sign would make it a slippery varmint...but also provide the officer with a going away present.
Years ago, when I was in college, and living at home as we were only 2 blocks from campus, my father's daily newspaper started disappearing.
After a couple of weeks of this, he got up early, leashed his German Shepard dog, who was highly trained, and waited in the dark on his porch.
Eventually, a young black kid (the neighborhood was just beginning to integrate) came along and picked up the paper and started off with it.
Daddy opened the door and yelled, “Drop that paper right now, or I'll unleash this dog.”
Well, the paper was dropped, and the boy hightailed it. About half-an-hour later, the boy's father showed up, wanting to know what the hell was going on.
Pops explained the situation to him, the man apologized, and said it wouldn't happen again, and it never did.
It'd be nice if people could settle their differences as easily nowadays, and the troubles were as simple as a pilfered newspaper. Oh, and it wasn't the authorities that were doing it. And, yeah, if different groups could settle their differences by listening to each other.
Paint the message on a Siegfried-Line type concrete Dragon’s Tooth.
Maybe the pictured lard-arse thought it was a bag of donuts.
Maybe lard-arse thought it was a bag of donuts.
Can I go over to the cops house and jack his garden gnomes?
Once upon a time, long, long ago, the police were the friends of the honest, common man.
That is manifestly no longer the case.
More and more these days, they are the monitors of the burgeoning American Police State.
It’s just lucky the guy with the signs didn’t have a dog.
It looks as if the sign is only a few feet from the road. In many areas that would not be his property, even though he might be required to mow the grass and take care of any sidewalks.
Maybe it’s different where he is, I don’t know.
Did someone say “first amendment rights?”
What’s that? We lost those a few decades ago.
Put up a sign favoring one of the left’s causes, and it won’t get taken down. But if it does, you can be sure the PD will find the culprit right away.
When the order comes to confiscate all guns, the police will have no problem with shooting citizens who resist.
Ummm, the police department doesn't have the right to steal the sign like a thief in the night... This is an outrage.