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Was out for an evening walk in my town. Hoboken, NJ Spotted three people carrying stacks of kerry/edwards signs. They were going into each and every business along Washington St and asking store owners to display the signs in their windows. I shadowed them for a while and went in every store they went in, after they left the store. I inquired if the store owners/employees were accepting the signs. A few did. Luckily the few that did admit to taking the signs know me as a customer. I told them that I give my patronage to them in the...

Homeowner's Elaborate Rigging Busts Kerry Sign Thief POSTED: 9:22 am EDT October 27, 2004 WINONA, Minn. -- A Minnesota man has come up with an elaborate way to catch the people stealing John Kerry campaign signs from his yard. And it almost worked the other day. Rick Carpenter screwed his 2-by-4-foot Kerry sign to the wall of his house and coated it with Vaseline. His wife, Veronica, chipped in by running fishing line from the sign into the house and tying it to wind chimes. The chimes sounded about 1 a.m. Saturday. Carpenter said he was out the door so...

Sign Theft Can't blame people around here if a certain political paranoia has set in. Not when at least 13 of their lawn signs were stolen and vandalized. And privately police told them the number may be closer to 50. But there's one thing the political pilfers didn't know. They were caught on tape. Along Alpine Trail in Eden Prairie... Where Bush-Cheney signs outnumber Kerry-Edwards, a contentious harmony prevailed among these political animals. Until recently. Norbert Gernes isn't alone. At least seven of his neighbors have had their Kerry signs stolen. And returned, well done. But Kim Ross did something...