Posted on 10/30/2008 1:15:07 PM PDT by SmithL
Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP) --
Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard. Turschak, with a degree in electrical engineering, hooked up a third sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday and also put up a surveillance camera.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that a 9-year-old boy with an Obama-Biden sign grabbed the McCain-Palin sign and got a jolt on Tuesday.
...Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said he doesn't plan to file charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
sounds like the father was trying to teach the boy to steal signs and got upset that it failed
A ‘shock’ you can believe in..............
They probably learned it from the muzzies.
ping!
It’s on a previous thread. Send me $100 and I’ll give you the FR link to the U tube vid.
My dad took a ground rod like the ones you see near electric meters at your house, soldered and clamped the non-neutral wire from an extension cord to it; he would go out in the evening and have me plug it in once he stuck it about 10 inches in the ground where we had watered earlier in the day.
About two to three minutes later, we would have a coffee can of nightcrawlers ripe for the picking, stunned but still just fine for his “worm bin.”
Andrew Noble
Professor of Statistics 308 Hanes Building
Department of Statistics and Operations Research Tel: 919.962.1352
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Fax: 919.962.1279
nobel (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu
Now you can write him and let him know teaching his child that it is okay to vandalize private property makes him a POS
There is someone else who suggested running wires to the campaign sign (not attached to anything).
“Are you feeling lucky, punk?”
some capsasian (spelling?) + Vaseline smeared on the edges of a sign would be a gift that keeps giving for a few hours for any sign theives.
There’s nothing dangerous about an electric fence. Just jolting.
When I was a kid and visited the farm, one old guy would tease the kids and have them touch the electric fence that was around the hog lot. He got a kick out of that.
My son got a fence energizer not too long ago and would haul it out when he invited friends over for a party. They soon tired of playing with it :) It still has a “touch here” sign on the terminals.
Confession time........back in ‘76, when I was about 16, me and my buddies stole campaign signs from peoples yards. And we paid absolutely no attention to which signs we were stealing. Why? Same reason I once broke a window in an abandoned house.......too much testosterone with no place to go.
I think people are getting a little too worked up over some puny signs that they aren’t going to care two wits about in a few days.
The McCain guy would be doing this boy a big favor if he filed charges. The boy needs to learn now that it is wrong to steal and or damage other people’s property. And the father of this boy does too.
The sign had been stolen multiple times, the McCain just finally got fed up....
Word to the wise, if you’re going to booby trap your McCain sign, post a warning sign prominently above or below the sign and at the entrance of the property. Also post a sign regarding trespassers. Do not use any potentially lethal booby traps. A mild shock booby trap is borderline.
If you’re in a predominately hispanic neighborhood, be sure to post your warning signs in both English and Spanish.
/mildly sarcastic but good advice ;-)
Yep.
Noble needs to teach his boy to read. There was a warning sign next to the McCain sign.
It is a national trend that was a tactic of the Left in 2004 as well. At least they have slowed down on painting swastikas on the campaign signs (a common occurence on Bush-Cheney signs in 2004).
Arson of signs and Republican homes remains a danger this season.
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