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Aren't medical maggots available now?

How about the really thin sandwich bags maybe painted or some such or with the maggots in a few layers of wet towel or some such . . .

The symbolism would be worth it . . . as would lots of maggots all over the back of a car . . . especially if they have little girls.

One could put wasp nests inside but that would be too dangerous for those with allergies. Scratch that.

Wouldn't know how to collect a critical mass of gnats.

Various kinds of worms could be interesting.

Then there's powdered sugar. Dangerous to inhale, though.

Perhaps some powdered sugar mixed with flour. Gets difficult to clean up and easily sticky in humid climates.

Seems to me the bags would do well to rupture in key ways immediately when tampered with but not really leak out visibly for about 2-3 minutes. I suppose cutting some slits every inch or so in the sides of ziplocks . . . and putting 3 or so layers of slit bags around one designed to rupture easily but without slits--that might work.

Or perhaps a thin fish line buried inline with the stake . . . with some barb or nail or some such which would rupture the inner bag easily without being too easy to detect . . .

I'm getting too much of a kick out of this. I should stop!

I've generally found with the small sandwich size ziplocks (get the cheap dollar store kind - not the name brand) that if you fill it till its full, gently seal it, and place it inside virtually any amount of pressure or disturbance will cause the seal to open. Hammer the sign into the ground deep and they're sure to loosen it just while trying to get the sign out. Then when it makes it to the back seat the contents spill everywhere.

Much simpler. Use a mixture of vaseline, DMSO, and distilled habanero essence (for instance, Insanity-brand pepper sauce). The mixture should be just this side of runny; it should not slide down the sign when applied (mix in more vaseline if it does). Apply with a spatula (a popsicle stick works fine), but DO NOT get the mixture on your skin, definitely wear Playtex-type gloves when deploying.

Coat (liberally, as it were) the edges of the sign and the top of the wooden groundstick. Some 'Rat may steal the sign, but that'll be the last one he steals for quite some time, I'll gar-on-tee.

The mixture is not directly rain-soluble, but it's as well to reapply it after a rain, or better still move the sign into the garage (WITH gloves, please!).