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global1

(25,270 posts)
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 08:59 PM Aug 2016

I'm Pissed - I Vowed To Remove My Bernie Lawn Sign After The DNC And Replace It With A Hillary....

lawn sign. When I went out to retrieve my Bernie lawn sign - I realized that somebody had stolen it. I'm contemplating calling the local police to report it. One a report is filed - it makes the local newspaper as things that happened in the community.

I just hope that the village I live in didn't remove the sign from my private property.



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I'm Pissed - I Vowed To Remove My Bernie Lawn Sign After The DNC And Replace It With A Hillary.... (Original Post) global1 Aug 2016 OP
Could it be bored kids? SharonClark Aug 2016 #1
LOL! That is pretty funny! skylucy Aug 2016 #10
We did this to our civics teacher GulfCoast66 Aug 2016 #16
Lol, you're going to call the cops? giftedgirl77 Aug 2016 #2
"Ma'am, could you describe the sign"? brooklynite Aug 2016 #19
I swear these ppl can't be real. giftedgirl77 Aug 2016 #22
That sucks. Not sure why people need to be such dicks nt geek tragedy Aug 2016 #3
At this point in the game it was probably a souvenir hunter NWCorona Aug 2016 #4
Is it possible the local Bernie campaign workers collected the sign? Zing Zing Zingbah Aug 2016 #5
Get over it or get another sign. Police have more important things to do. MichiganVote Aug 2016 #6
common practice - no need for police nt KT2000 Aug 2016 #7
I agree. My husband ran for local school board a few times and his signs skylucy Aug 2016 #9
we had a husband of a far right candidate KT2000 Aug 2016 #13
G'luck. I'm still waiting for someone to return my gnome. I miss him. grossproffit Aug 2016 #8
LOL! That is pretty funny! skylucy Aug 2016 #11
Is this it? mercuryblues Aug 2016 #15
OMG! Now, I'm traumatized. Gimme back my GNOME!! grossproffit Aug 2016 #20
A few weeks ago, someone stole all the Trump signs in my neighborhood. I Nay Aug 2016 #12
Police? BainsBane Aug 2016 #14
It's not something one should call the police for bigwillq Aug 2016 #17
There was a Trump supporter in my neighborhood athena Aug 2016 #18
I found this on your lawn Capt. Obvious Aug 2016 #21

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
1. Could it be bored kids?
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 09:02 PM
Aug 2016

One Halloween in an election year, my neighbors woke up to find over 100 campaign signs in their front yard. Every candidate and issue was represented. I know it is wrong but it was kind of funny.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
16. We did this to our civics teacher
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 09:16 AM
Aug 2016

Back in the early 80's. Wrong I guess, but funny at the time.

Imagine, we had a civics teacher!

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
5. Is it possible the local Bernie campaign workers collected the sign?
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 09:18 PM
Aug 2016

Not sure how it works with these presidential campaigns. A local mayoral campaign worker put up a sign on my lawn last year and they told me they would come by and collect the sign after the election.

skylucy

(3,743 posts)
9. I agree. My husband ran for local school board a few times and his signs
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 10:42 PM
Aug 2016

were vandalized. Everyone running for the school board/city council talked about some of their signs being stolen or defaced. It happened when he ran for school board and lost and it happened when he ran for school board and won. Just goes with the territory I am afraid. It used to just gall me because we paid good $$ for those signs!

KT2000

(20,588 posts)
13. we had a husband of a far right candidate
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 10:56 PM
Aug 2016

sit out of view with his rifle hoping to "catch" who was stealing his wife's signs. The police might help in that extreme case!

Also- knew of a guy who used campaign signs to stake up plants in his vegetable garden. He did seem to prefer democrats though.

Good $$ is right - they can be reused too!

Nay

(12,051 posts)
12. A few weeks ago, someone stole all the Trump signs in my neighborhood. I
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 10:53 PM
Aug 2016

officially condemn the stealing of signs, but I confess I went home and laughed like a damn hyena.

 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
17. It's not something one should call the police for
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 09:52 AM
Aug 2016

Go to your local DEM headquarters and see if they have any signs.

athena

(4,187 posts)
18. There was a Trump supporter in my neighborhood
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 10:00 AM
Aug 2016

who had at least seven Trump signs in front of his house. As if that weren't enough, he would sometimes sit in front of his house, holding up another Trump sign. (This is a liberal neighborhood in a blue state.) Over the next two weeks or so, all but one disappeared. Yesterday, I passed by his house and saw that the last sign, too, was gone.

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