Boy shocked by campaign sign

ap ^ | 10/30/2008

[mathprof]

Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard.

So the man with a degree in electrical engineering hooked up a third sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday. Turschak also put up a surveillance camera.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that Tuesday, a 9-year-old boy with an Obama-Biden sign grabbed the McCain-Palin sign and got a jolt.

The boy's father, Andrew Noble, then showed up at the Turschak's door, upset his son had been shocked. Soon an Orange County sheriff's deputy also showed up at the Turschak's home.

Noble says his son just wanted to see how the sign was put together. Turschak says the boy intended to swap out the signs.

Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said he doesn't plan to file charges.

[sierrahome]

I heard that somebody used that little trick in Berkley on the Code Pink Parking place

[magslinger]

Another case of poor reporting. This article brings up more questions than it answers.

1.Is the father a liar or just criminally credulous?

2.How many times did the kid grab the sign before he figured out it was smarter not to?

3.Where did the 0bama sign come from?

4.When is the video going to be uploaded to Youtube?

5.How did Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass get elected despite excessive good judgment?

[50sDad]

The “rumor” going around my daughter's high school is that Pizza Hut will give you a pizza in exchange for ten McCain Palin signs. (In addition to the audacity of those floating the rumor, it is a sad condemnation of the intelligence of our teens that they would believe a national chain would alienate half their customers to advance an agenda. Well, other than the MSM, I mean.)

[ArmyTeach]

So guess who probably put him up to it? I think that's mmichaels point :-)

[Hoodlum91]

Absolutely! I was thinking the same thing - the only way my dad would be over there was to drag my sorry butt over to apologize

[Cvengr]

Reads as though the young child is now a bit brighter

Don't Taze me, Bro!

[silverleaf]

Last line is good news

this little punk is only 9 and his father is defending him from trespassing and theft? lifelong democrat for sure

[ishabibble]

What was the 9 yr. old doing with the Obama sign? I'd bet my eye teeth that “Dad” is a sniveling little coward who sent the kid out to do the dirty work.

[J40000]

a NINE-year old boy JUST wanted to swap out the signs?

My kids are 10 and have NOTHING in them that would do this sort of leftist ‘activism’ type stuff.
Me thinks the dad put the kid up to ‘swapping’ the signs out.

[edzo4]

if you google the guys name and chapel hill NC it comes up with a professor of statistics, what are the odds of that?

[chickadee]

Well, this is way off topic, but your use of the word “audacity” reminded me of an incident a couple of days ago. I was trying to explain the meaning of the word “chutzpah” to a young adult. I used the old “orphan” explanation, but then sought Wikipedia’s version of the definition online.

It still makes me chuckle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah

[Maurice Tift]

   My McCain-Palin sign is protected by something called the Total Loss Security System.

no... not really!

[longtermmemmory]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

[TXnMA]

A favorite USAF prank (employed and taught by the instructors at tech school) was to unplug a piece of equipment (soldering irons were favorites) and wrap a couple of strands of very fine wire around the power plug prongs. Lots of guys banged their heads on the workbench when they crawled under it to re-connect - and the plug produced a noisy flash... ‘-}

[NYC_BULLMOOSE]

He just wanted to see how the sign was put together but learned more interesting lessons instead...

He learned:

a) how electricity works
b) what “trespassing” means
c) that his father is a liar
d) that not every person in CH is as much of a sissy as his daddy is...

[Charles Martel]

Someone here had a skunk scent boob trap idea.

They have paintball combat "land mines" that are triggered by motion or heat sensors, y'know. Some of 'em look like a pop-up sprinkler head and most are powered by a CO2 ampule. Replace the liquid paint with Eau du Skunk and let 'er rip. Try to get one with a remote motion sensor, though - makes it easier to disarm if the Obamavandals don't trip it.

They even have paintball combat Claymore mines. :-)

[Billg64]

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

Are we talking about this Andrew Noble and his son???
http://www.unc.edu/~nobel/

[DieHard the Hunter]

When I was a kid, if I were ever crooked enough to try to steal anything — like an election sign — and suffered an electric shock for my troubles, the VERY LAST PERSON I’d consider telling would be my Dad. The Second Last would be my Mom, because she was/is just as frightening if roused up in righteous wrath.

Whup-ass and a visit to the Cop Shop would be their likely remedy. Then a visit to the neighbor, then grounding. And if it were my Dad, a very LONG lecture on how Electricity works.

So this is what I don’t get: are they making kids stupid these days? It would be a stupid kid to narc on himself to his Dad.

This makes the whole theory of the Dad being the real culprit entirely believable. No charges will be laid because the Dad knows it would come out on Court, and even worse things would happen as a result.

[kenth]

The kid is just nine, so the father probably sent him out to steal signs.

[MrB]

We’re raising a nation of pansies criminals.

Any parent who sides with his kid when he's committing an anti-social act is raising a criminal.