Posted on 09/20/2020 12:11:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A local police department is seeing a trend of people stealing political yard signs. The Carlisle Police Department has heard from many people about campaign signs that have been vandalized or stolen.
Sgt. Dave Miller says it’s not just annoying — stealing personal property is a misdemeanor crime.
“There’s enough stress already on folks so we would encourage folks just to think about the idea that it’s ok to have differing views. We absolutely can not be trespassing on people’s property or damaging or taking property that belongs to them,” Miller said.
So far, Carlisle police say all the signs reported damaged or stolen support Republican candidates.
Doing my regular yard sale run this weekend and last, I noticed Trump signs are sprouting up everywhere.
About 3 weeks ago, maybe a dozen Trump flags around the area, yesterday I spotted at least 30. That’s signs and flags, and that’s not counting things like 3 at one location, that just counts as one.
One Biden sign just popped up the past week or so, haven’t seen any Biden bumper stickers at all, one Irish white boy bumper sticker left over from 2018 was it. Probably a dozen or so Trump bumper stickers.
Haven’t heard anything around here about them being stolen, it might happen, we do have a small community college in town, I’m not sure how liberal it is, but I’m betting very.
Quite a few American flags out too, one car dealership always has a dozen flying.
And two billboards advertising Trump that I’ve noticed the past week or two. No wait, scratch that, one just says “Save America, Vote Republican”, the other is specifically a Trump ad. It says “America for Trump, I’m for Trump.” Just saw it last night maybe 1/4 mile from the place my band played. Went back and got a picture before going to the venue to set up. Outdoor gig. Everybody was dying to get out and do something, had a good crowd, they enjoyed it. My fingers did NOT enjoy it...I haven’t played a guitar in about 3 months. Should have stayed in practice. Only one wearing a mask outside was the more petite one of a lesbian couple. (not saying the larger girl was fat, she defintitely was not, 10lbs overweight if at all, the smaller girl was a small girl, maybe 5’ 2” if she stood on a thick book.)
Owner told us he had been through 148 or 168 days of zero revenue. And this place is a local microbrewery. He didn’t say how much beer they had to throw out, if any, or what it cost to keep things in operation, if they did. I know it did hit him hard.
According to what I looked up not long ago, this area, and Texas in general, is about 75% Republican. Comparing to 2016, I saw about 5 or 6 Trump signs to one for Hillary. Biden does not seem to be doing well.
I’m not far from Carlisle, know it well. Not surprised there’s an outbreak of Biden signage.
Closer to home, I’m seeing twice as many Biden signs as there were Clinton signs in ‘16. So, four Biden signs.
PA will go red, but there are enough crooks in office to call red blue.
Bkmk
I’m think about getting my sprayer with round up and make a nice trump sign on the hill in front of my house.
I’ve noticed a big reduction in the number of bumper stickerssighted during this campaign. Nobody seems to want to get their car keyed.
Montgomery.
My car got keyed nearly 30 years ago for having a Bush sticker.
Gunman opens fire inside Pennsylvania mall, no injuries reported...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-lehigh-valley-mall-shooting
Gunman opens fire inside Pennsylvania mall, no injuries reported...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-lehigh-valley-mall-shooting
(forget the other ping; wrong headline)
The problem with that, is that Conservatives believe in Freedom of Speech. While I might despise Harris/Biden, I would never infringe on someone’s Freedom of Speech by stealing their sign, or vandalizing it either.
In typical MSM fashion they buried the lede.
Should have been: “Fascist Democrat Thieves Stealing Political Signs.”
You can be sure if only Bitme signs were stolen it would have been headlined in a similar fashion.
My statement about Harris-Biden signs meant that there is no support in this area for Biden, hence no Biden signs. They are not being stolen, but I am surprised Rats haven’t claimed that they are being stolen due to the lack of signs.
There’s no support for Biden in the area of PA that I live, or the area of PA I work. But lots of Trump signs.
Exactly, same here.
I live in Northampton County, but work in Carbon County.
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