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The Yard Sign
email from Son In Law | received 5 Mark 2010 | Ralph's Neighbor

Posted on 03/05/2010 1:58:51 PM PST by plsjr

The yard sign...


Ralph, My neighbor is a "lefty" of sorts (Obama bumper stickers, gung-ho socialized medicine, "guns should be banned", etc.). So last week I put this sign up in my yard after one of his anti-gun rants at a neighborhood cocktail party.

The sign wasn't up more than an hour before he called the police and wanted them to make me take down the sign.

Fortunately, the officer politely informed him that it was not their job to take such action without a court order and that he had to file a complaint "downtown" first, which would be reviewed by the city attorney to see if it violated any city, county, or state ordinances, which if there was a violation a court order would be sent to the offending party (me) to "remove the sign in seven days".

After several weeks he was informed that the sign was legal (by a quarter of an inch) and there was nothing the city could do, which obviously made him madder.

I tried to smooth things over by inviting him to go shooting with me and my friends at the hunt club but that seemed to make him even more angry. I then asked him if he wanted to go to a Tea Party rally but again he declined my outreach efforts to bring about a better understanding between political and social opponents.


I am at a loss how to reconcile our long relationship (notice I did not say friendship), any suggestions would be welcome.

Anyway, that's life in our neck of the woods, how's about yours?


TOPICS: Education; Hobbies; Humor
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2ndamendment; arms; banglist; guns; itsajokeson
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To: pogo101
Here are links you can try if they don't display at the top of the post.

The Yard Sign http://s433.photobucket.com/albums/qq58/plsjr/?

41 posted on 03/05/2010 2:33:25 PM PST by plsjr (<>< ... http://NewSpring.cc/webservice - check it out!)
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To: plsjr

Nice lawn.


42 posted on 03/05/2010 2:35:50 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Is anyone in the 0bama administration competent at anything?!!?)
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To: conservativeharleyguy
I put pine tar on the back of the McCain/Palin signs in my yard.
hehe ... I saw evidence that someone had touched one of them, too.
43 posted on 03/05/2010 2:37:53 PM PST by RightField (A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.)
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To: plsjr

I saw this same pic at a gun show several months ago. Photo shopped I think from the way it looks. Not a new picture. Funny, but old news, I believe.


44 posted on 03/05/2010 2:39:10 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: plsjr
Great sign.

BTW, your house looks awesome and your lawn is immaculate.

45 posted on 03/05/2010 2:42:02 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: rlmorel
I don't have that problem as both my wife and I are lifetime NRA members.
(... I'm also a lifetime member of Gun Owners of America and the Texas State Rifle Association.)

For those who may have missed the details, and although I would like to have done this, I got this as an email by way of my Son-In-Law who's Retired USAF Security Forces and currently a Sheriff's Deputy.
46 posted on 03/05/2010 2:44:54 PM PST by plsjr (<>< ... http://NewSpring.cc/webservice - check it out!)
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To: plsjr

I love your azaelas.


47 posted on 03/05/2010 2:48:58 PM PST by Jemian
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To: plsjr; Bloody Sam Roberts

Fan-flipping-fabulous sign!


48 posted on 03/05/2010 2:49:08 PM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: plsjr; Bloody Sam Roberts

Fan-flipping-fabulous sign!


49 posted on 03/05/2010 2:50:41 PM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: plsjr
On a serious note, shouldn't anti-self defense Leftists be required to post that they don't believe that they have the right to defend themselves?

Why should they live of the protection from the criminal element that comes from the uncertainty of who owns a gun.

50 posted on 03/05/2010 2:56:38 PM PST by BerserkPatriot (There are no 1st Amendment rights without 2nd Amendment Rights)
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To: plsjr

Love your sign and your beautiful yard.


51 posted on 03/05/2010 2:56:44 PM PST by EverOnward
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To: plsjr

LOL! Hey now! Turnabout is fair play.


52 posted on 03/05/2010 3:00:58 PM PST by Ronbo1948
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To: plsjr
HAHAHA! Very funny! I like the concept.


53 posted on 03/05/2010 3:06:51 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Little Pig
That’s a mighty lush lawn for Texas in March, not to mention the other plantings.

The future is in plastics.

54 posted on 03/05/2010 3:10:40 PM PST by norton
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To: plsjr
Wonderful...and thanks for sharing.

The picture reminds me to add Miracle-Gro to the shopping list on the way home from work. :-)

55 posted on 03/05/2010 3:16:26 PM PST by re_nortex
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To: norton
LOL!

Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.

Benjamin: Yes, sir.

Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?

Benjamin: Yes, I am.

Mr. McGuire: Plastics.

Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?

From the film "The Graduate".

56 posted on 03/05/2010 3:16:55 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: plsjr

Posted article and picture on my blog:

http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2010/03/yard-sign.html

May it go VIRAL!


57 posted on 03/05/2010 3:17:17 PM PST by Ronbo1948
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To: sodpoodle

> Looks like a summer day - in Texas????

I saw this very photo quite a while back...last summer at least.


58 posted on 03/05/2010 3:23:33 PM PST by XEHRpa
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To: plsjr

I’m lovin it :))


59 posted on 03/05/2010 3:37:19 PM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: plsjr
Great sign! I put a similar sign on the door to Mr Ditters reloading room. It said

:OWNER IS UNARMED PLEASE DO NOT ROB OR HURT HIM:
Nothing could have been further from the truth. ha!

60 posted on 03/05/2010 3:44:28 PM PST by Ditter
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