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Boy Zapped Trying To Swap Political Yard Signs
WILM ^ | October 31, 2008

Posted on 10/31/2008 4:16:49 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776

As the boy attempts to make the switch, he's zapped by electricity and runs away. A boy from North Carolina was caught on tape trying to swap signs from John McCain to Barack Obama.

The video posted on YouTube.com shows a 9-year-old boy creeping up to a McCain/Palin yard sign outside of a home with an Obama sign.

As the boy attempts to make the switch, he's zapped by electricity and runs away.

Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill, says he was tired of people swapping out his sign, so the home owner with a degree in electrical engineering hooked up the sign to an electric pet fence.

The boy's father, upset about the shock later showed up at Turschak's door, along with a sheriff's deputy.

No charges have been filed.

(Excerpt) Read more at wilm.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: freepun; ratcrime; zotted
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To: Kukai

Local story here. Speculation is the kids father was running the show (What 9 year old goes around swapping political signs on his own?). The electrical engineer (and other neighbors) have been targets of sign McCain/Palin thieves for weeks (In the tolerant Peoples Republik of Chapel Hill). The guy even posted yellow electric fence warning signs around the political sign. He turned the current off after the kid got zapped, and filmed another neighbor later stealing his signs! Goes to show how tolerant these folks can be...


21 posted on 10/31/2008 4:27:11 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (In the land of Clinton, where the shadows lie...)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I read about it but didn’t know there was a video. Thanks!

That’s really funny!

Well, at least the father can’t sue saying his son was thrown to the ground and paralyzed due to the shock. But then again..he’s a liberal..he’ll probably think of some reason to call his lawyer.


22 posted on 10/31/2008 4:28:11 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
The video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W54FRb5Vfg

23 posted on 10/31/2008 4:28:32 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Different from FR - refering to BC comics...


24 posted on 10/31/2008 4:29:17 PM PDT by Kukai
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To: AmericanMade1776

25 posted on 10/31/2008 4:29:46 PM PDT by Silly (www.PalinLove.com)
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To: sneakers
I'm in a neighbor filled with AlQaida wannabes, and they're all Obama supporters (he's black, he's bad, he's a Moslem, you betcha).

So, I use a Tesoro Iron Dog sticker to indicate affiliation with the Palin enterprise.

Death to the Islamofascists and their running dog lackeys!

26 posted on 10/31/2008 4:30:25 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: AmericanMade1776

Redistribution of Electricity!


27 posted on 10/31/2008 4:31:23 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Redistribute Obamas Wealth)
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To: AmericanMade1776

NO! his FATHER sent him to do this.


28 posted on 10/31/2008 4:34:19 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Hah!

Let this be a lesson to you, Sonny!


29 posted on 10/31/2008 4:35:23 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama on Ayers: "He's just a guy in my neighborhood." LIAR!!!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

They should have shocked the father. Punk ass DummyCrat, sends his kid out to do his dirty work.


30 posted on 10/31/2008 4:37:40 PM PDT by csvset
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To: johniegrad

The dad probably sent the kid over to do it because he didn’t have the guts to do it himself!

Typical leftist technique—like Ayers sending his girlfriend over to make bombs. She gets zapped and he gets away.


31 posted on 10/31/2008 4:38:30 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama on Ayers: "He's just a guy in my neighborhood." LIAR!!!)
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To: McGruff

If a Father is going to send his small child to steal signs, the kid should at least be able to read.


32 posted on 10/31/2008 4:42:19 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I actually like this idea. The kid’s Dad should have told him that that was what happens when you trespass and try to “exchange” signs!
I had come up with a different idea to “surprise” anyone who tried to steal my signs again but then I just decided not to put any out!


33 posted on 10/31/2008 4:42:31 PM PDT by Cricket24 (VOTE McCain/Palin!! Save the USA!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

what did the dad tell the deputy, my son tried to steal this mccain sign and got a shock


34 posted on 10/31/2008 4:43:35 PM PDT by edzo4 (Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
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To: justlurking

Thanks for the video.. it looks like the kid had already stole one from some other place before trying to lift that one. That was no an Obama sign he had, it was another McCain sign.


35 posted on 10/31/2008 4:44:34 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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To: muawiyah
I'm in a neighbor

Too much information.

36 posted on 10/31/2008 4:47:42 PM PDT by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

His name was son of a chapel hill coward.

When you turn off I 49 onto 15/501 to Chapel Hill, you can feel the chill as you enter the Blue Zone


37 posted on 10/31/2008 4:48:20 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ferengi?.....Probably not, but he sure has the lobes)
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To: humblegunner

NEIGHBORHOOD


38 posted on 10/31/2008 4:48:52 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: edzo4

this is even more unbelievable..heard on fox today the dad told the deputy that his kid was “trying to understand how the sign was constructed”...what a total jerk this father is!!!


39 posted on 10/31/2008 4:49:58 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Conservatives are in an ideological, cultural/ class war with the Great Victim Entitlement Society)
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To: AmericanMade1776

So??? the dad calls the sherrif and says— Hey,, ma boy was out stealing signs and this idiot has his sign hooked up to a pet fence and he shocked ma boy,,, and this dumb ass officer actually went to the man’s house,,, you can’t make this stuff up,, lololol, why didn’t the officer arrest the old man and his boy ????????


40 posted on 10/31/2008 4:50:47 PM PDT by vinylsidingman
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