Posted on 10/16/2016 3:52:15 PM PDT by digger48
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co.(KXRM) – A traditional way of showing your support for presidential candidates may be bumper stickers or signs.
One local man has encountered his share of challenges in his effort to show his support for Donald Trump. Chuck Corry has made it a habit to post signs on his property but none have caused such a stir as the Donald Trump / Pence sign.
“I’m a Trump supporter,” Corry said. “But, I’m also pissed off.”
Corry is frustrated because he’s had to put up 5 signs over the last three weeks in his front yard. Now, he’s taken extreme measures to try and keep it intact.
The retired oceanographer added fence posts and put a spike board down. In case someone tries to run it over, they’ll sputter away with flat tires.
“I’ve been doing this for 16 years and I’ve had an occasional sign stolen. I’ve never had these kind of problems,” Corry said.
The 78-year-old has built in additional support to show his support. He’s put up plumbers tape, glue, steal cable, dog leash anchors and one more ingredient.
“Skunk spray!” Corry swears it’s been a deterrent. His sign has stood for a solid week. He’s also sprayed WD-40 on it too in case someone tries to paint over it.
Even the opposing party isn’t condoning this behavior.
Kathleen Ricker, the chair of the El Paso County Democrats said, “As long as we respect each other and rights to have signs, we’re all be okay. It’s our First Amendment right.”
Corry says he’s invested about $60 and six-man hours and he thinks it’s paid off – it’s been up for a solid week.
He said he’ll be ready if there’s another attempt to take it down.
“I’m a stubborn old man and a former Marine,” Corry added. “You wanna play games? Okay, I’m good at playing games.”
This is not an isolated incident.
It’s happened across the nation – one man in Lexington, Kentucky has chained his Trump sign to the ground to avoid theft.
Another man boobie-trapped his sign with electrical fence wire.
‘Another man boobie-trapped his sign with electrical fence wire.’
Now we’re talking! Might get sued, but still!
I was thinking about this the other day, and while any electric fence charger will work, they’re not designed for this, so we have an opportunity for an entrepreneur to develop an “Electric Sign Protector”.
Since it will require power, of course we should consider making it solar. OK enough consideration, plug ‘er into good old coal-generated AC!
One word:
CLAYMORES
Sa-weet!
That’s the epitome of a broken glass election.
Semper Fi, bro.
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The skunk spray sounds like fun too.
Itching powder?
Or good old poison ivy or poison oak.
I bet some kinds of acids eat through a car’s paint and be difficult to track.
One old-school no-violence idea would be a sod-covered hole loaded with paint in a plastic bag. One false step and the paint bag reduces the risk of an accident, but what a mess.
I had two signs stolen within 48 hours.
When I placed the second sign I wore rubber gloves and smeared the sign and its stakes with poison ivy leaves.
After THAT sign was stolen I did the same thing with sign # 3. But I left the poison leaves dangling on the top of the sign.
That was two weeks ago and the sign is still standing.
I just rub my signs with Poison Ivy, then look to see which neighbors or their kids are covered in Calamine Lotion. Make them pay by being extremely uncomfortable!
Solar with a big-azz capacitor would do the trick.
Even security cameras would be fun. Catch them in the act and run the video feed for people to see and jeer.
You could have a large screen TV out in the yard near the street, offer refreshments, and the entire neighborhood gets to see the event.
My local Walmart was sold out.
One kid could pay another child a bounty. Then the possibilities are endless.
Rub poison ivy on it.
Change faint filled bag to skunk oil filled bag, HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE......
Nah. Just use a 2 joule cattle fence energizer. That’ll keep em hopping.
Electric fence charger (the one with the upside down cow in flames on the side of it)
Electric fence charger (the one with the upside down cow in flames on the side of it)
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