Posted on 11/04/2008 3:40:19 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
I just got home about 25 minutes ago from a frustrating afternoon to say the least. Long story short...my wife and I were leaving a restaurant late this afternoon after voting and as we were pulling out I noticed a very tall male between the ages of 18-20 yrs of age spray painting the huge McCain/Palin signs that were in front of the mall...he was putting the word "DON'T" in yellow spray paint with a nazi symbol on the bottom.
He was doing this in broad daylight on a public road...so I turned my truck around and hauled it down the side of the road this was going on. I got out and immediately confronted this punk who proceeded to tell me to get away from him that it was "his right to campaign however he wanted to", then looked at my truck and saw McCain/Palin stickers on the back window and went with his can to spray my truck saying "You are one of them...you bastards are going down", I then paced down the sidewalk with him in a full on shouting match of him telling me the McCain sign was taxpayer dollars and he could do whatever he wanted to do...and yelling that he was 16 years old and I couldn't touch him or he would have me in jail and that he could hit me in self defense. He then swung at me screaming he was gonna kill me but did not connect the punch and the chase ensued. There was no way this punk was 16 yrs of age. He looked 18-19 yrs of age and was about 6 foot 5 inches tall.
He then took off as I was dialing 9-1-1 and started running in the mall parking lot all the while spraying cars as he was running across the lot.
The cops arrived within 2 mins but the punk vanished into one of the stores so they kept 3 squad cars in the mall and said they were going to wait it out and wait for him to come out and be sighted by mall security.
In the meantime...2 punks on the other end of the lot spray painted an Obama symbol and keyed approx 7 cars that had McCain/Palin stickers on their car.
The area this took place in Melbourne,Fla.
The police are still there and they took reports from witnesses.
I worked with the local campaign for nearly 2.5 months...I worked on putting those signs up...I'd be damned if I didn't do something about this. Unfortunately the police said all he would get is a night in Juvie Hall and a slap on the wrist by a judge (if he was really 16), they were praying he was older for the punch he threw and the multiple cars he damaged.
Amazing. Another instance of the party of tolerance. Kudos to you for standing up to the punk, too many of us are letting them take away our right of free speech through intimidation and threat. If we won’t even stand up to vandalism, how can we say we would live free or die?
This is just unbelievable. I’m staying home today and will venture out tomorrow, McCain/Palin and NRA stickers in full view.
Concealed and carry!
Sigh.
And so it starts.
How awful these people are. You’re a great American to stand up to him. I hope they find ‘em and that they are punished.
Wow, change we can believe it...what a great demonstration of HOPE for the future of America.
Usual classy Obama supporter. How come the libs are always so trashy?
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Well done. They generally scurry when confronted.
That is ILLEGAL (even if the pro-McCain sign was not put up in a proper place.)
Of course, all will be forgiven once the Dear Leader assumes his Rightful Place.
The cops arrived within 2 mins but the punk vanished
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When seconds count police are 2 minutes away.
All ladies should be locked and loaded by now...I am..either way Ovomit wins brazen disreguard for others...looses RIOTS big time.
The heck with concealed. Wide Open!
Three of my collection are loaded and at hand.
HOLY Crap! That’s crazy! Little pieces of snot, can you imagine the parents who raised them.
I hope they got caught.
Check out what happened in Texas this morning.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2124962/posts
Get a grip. You cannot defend against a spray can with a gun. Geez.
Annie...I have been in some heated political battles in my life (Palm Beach 2000) etc...this was like someone was shooting someone on the side of the street and nobody was doing anything about it.
He simply had no regard for this property and felt it was his right to vandalize anything he chose to...it was his right. Other than a shouting match of civics and law...his spray paint can and the risk of him carrying and me not at the time was all the difference between this being a post about someone going to the hospital.
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