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.
Brake fluid.
Only problem with that is the perp may not be allergic to poison ivy and it’s doubtful they’ll make the mental connection so it will have no preventive effect. Plus, no one is on their first exposure to it, so it’s unlikely to get results if the perp is a kid whose life consists of school and video games in the kitchen. Others can roll in it on every camping trip and not have a reaction until, say, the 51st time.
Now ghost pepper juice in vegetable oil?
The electric fence is a great idea- instant correction- and it won’t hurt them.
But even a thick coat of petroleum jelly or tanglefoot might be fun- they’ll get nice and sticky and stay that way until they can wash their hands.
There are also other items, brake fluid, mustard, bologna, gasoline, all of them will do a number on a car's paint job.
Wax will help protect the paint but few people wash and hand wax their cars often enough to provide any significant protection.
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“it’s doubtful they’ll make the mental connection “
That’s okay! They’ll be suffering anyway. Caught my neighbors teenaged son that way. They try it again, and they’ll figure it out. It felt good to see the little jerk suffering. And he never made money cutting my grass again!
There’s a YouTube video of some guy making a 2AM raid on a Trump yard sign. He kicks it over. So far so good. Then he decides to take a whiz on it. Big mistake, as the cattle fence charger attached to the sign delivered a massive jolt right back, ah, upstream. Hilarity ensues.
Libs in the wire! Libs in the wire! Get on that fifty...
Libs in the wire! Libs in the wire! Get on that fifty...
I’ll be damned.
Never heard of those
They run off AA batteries, too!
I had to find that video. It made my evening.
The ones they carry made in China don't work that well anyway.
Regular brake fluid does a good job and will probably result in fewer personal injury lawsuits.
Took a jolt to the Johnson, he did. Ow!
You beat me to it.
Now that is 'mean' - the guy stealing the sign will have some severe flesh burning sensations whenever he touches his face, or whatever...think about him having to take a leak before he gets back into his vehicle... :)
I looked for that video but couldn’t find it.
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