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Sign battle starts with a zzzzzzzt!
News and Observer ^ | JAY PRICE

Posted on 10/30/2008 6:09:16 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: americaningenuity; antichrist; elections; hypnosis; mccain; necessity; obama; signs; vandals; yardsigns; zot
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To: DemonDeac

A CHARGE you can believe in. This was posted last night as well.


21 posted on 10/30/2008 6:27:14 AM PDT by crymeariver (Good news...in a way)
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To: mewzilla

too bad they didn’t post the security cam video.


22 posted on 10/30/2008 6:28:32 AM PDT by grandpa jones (Prove All Things)
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To: DemonDeac

Where is the VIDEO???? Must be priceless!


23 posted on 10/30/2008 6:28:59 AM PDT by Broker (VOTE McCain/Palin! !)
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To: DemonDeac

Almost ALL the McCain / Palin signs have disappeared from Los Altos, CA (including ours). This really hacks me off.


24 posted on 10/30/2008 6:30:14 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DemonDeac

I’m not one of the thread police, but there is another thread on this already. On that thread you will find some pertinent information, like the fact that Andrew Noble (the kid’s father) is likely a professor at UNC and a registered Democrat. There is also a link to the video of the kid getting a little shock.

FWIW, I think the father sent the kid to take down the sign since there are two signs in the home owner’s yard. Theft is theft. Sorry the kid got a little shock.


25 posted on 10/30/2008 6:31:56 AM PDT by comps4spice (Democrats caused the current financial mess. Do we really want to give them the Oval Office?)
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To: DemonDeac
"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"

To those that require income redistribution; a card board yard sign is every bit as high tech as a circuit board on the Space Shuttle.

Next Obamantion nation citizen will say he was taking it somewhere where they could read what it said to them.

26 posted on 10/30/2008 6:33:27 AM PDT by NoLibZone (As insane as McCain is , my principles can't allow someone like Huessein to be president.)
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To: Broker
Video
27 posted on 10/30/2008 6:34:39 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DemonDeac

This local sleuth is on top of things:

“While it is great that their son is interested in politics, the parents need to stop pretending the kid wasn’t up to some mischief. I’m sure he is a good kid but let’s be honest - he had a concrete plan & he wasn’t checking to see how something was constructed. He was there to replace the McCain with Obama signs. The parents complained enough in front of this child that he decided to do something about it. Kids can be independent but still such the concrete thinkers at that age, I know - I have one. It was a nice idea really to do something but bad execution and not respectful. Next time just ask the HOA board who owns the land and take your kid to put up signs around town.”


28 posted on 10/30/2008 6:34:47 AM PDT by Augustinian monk
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To: Broker
Video here. The little twerp got a mild "bzzt" on his hand. He should have gotten a taser-like voltage. I'd love to see these scum writhing on the ground, all their muscles paralyzed for a couple minutes.
29 posted on 10/30/2008 6:35:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DemonDeac
See the video!

Boy shocked by campaign sign

30 posted on 10/30/2008 6:36:13 AM PDT by BufordP (Had Mexicans flown planes into the World Trade Center, Jorge Bush would have surrendered.)
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To: NoLibZone
Next Obamantion nation citizen will say he was taking it somewhere where they could read what it said to them.

LOL. Now that would have been a BELIEVABLE excuse!

31 posted on 10/30/2008 6:36:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 1rudeboy
On Obama's campaign site "Kids for Obama" where children ages 12 and under have a place to go and actually vote.
They have a starter kit which tells them things they can do to support Obama. Think about this, too.
32 posted on 10/30/2008 6:37:20 AM PDT by winkadink
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s a shame the “spawn of Marxist parents” didn’t take a leak on the sign post.


33 posted on 10/30/2008 6:39:11 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: 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.........

Most likely at the direction of his father.

34 posted on 10/30/2008 6:39:49 AM PDT by onlylewis (libs want a two class system, one rich one poor)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He really got a tingle ... thanks for videolink


35 posted on 10/30/2008 6:39:58 AM PDT by Broker (VOTE McCain/Palin! !)
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To: DemonDeac
I walk everyday in my pro- Obama neighborhood. It never occurred to me to steal signs, as much as I disagree with their politics, they have a right to their politics.

It is interesting where their have been bama signs for months now, I have noticed some are gone.....makes me wonder if there is a change of voting heart....

36 posted on 10/30/2008 6:40:41 AM PDT by Kimmers (Our country is in trouble. Whom do you want to lead, a fighter pilot or a community organizer?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“...He should have gotten a taser-like voltage. I’d love to see these scum writhing on the ground, all their muscles paralyzed for a couple minutes...”

Agreed. His miscreant dad (i.e. Andrew Noble of Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is a punk as well.


37 posted on 10/30/2008 6:43:02 AM PDT by I_hate_politicians
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To: onlylewis
Most likely at the direction of his father.

At minimum, with his tacit consent--witness his reaction when the kid came home and told him.

38 posted on 10/30/2008 6:43:46 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

The father probably sent the 9 year old to do his dirty work.


39 posted on 10/30/2008 6:55:42 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (NOBAMA - it is for our future)
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To: edzo4
its constructed the same way as the obama sign you were trying to replace it with

You can tell from the video that the kid had no intention of examining it. He just marhed up and was ready to yank it or replace it with an Obama sign.

Boy, I'll bet daddy is proud of his little proto-Brown Shirt.

40 posted on 10/30/2008 7:04:16 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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