Obama signs stolen in Columbus suburb; McCain signs OK.

[mwb970]

Obama signs are hot property
(Columbus Dispatch, September 20, 2008)

Maybe Vaseline laced with hot-pepper juice? That's the concoction Becky Armstrong of Upper Arlington is thinking of spreading on her Barack Obama campaign sign now that thieves have stolen five others from her yard.

Sometime after dark on Thursday, her sign and 13 others disappeared from Mountview Road. It's the second time such signs have been swiped en masse from the street. Laura Schwartz, who distributes signs for Democratic Upper Arlington Progressive Action, said that more than 100 Obama-for-president signs have been stolen in the city. She's encouraging people to take their signs in at night and report stolen signs on the group's Web site.

"There was a rash of it last week, and it looks like a coordinated effort," she said. The same problem cropped up in Upper Arlington four years ago, when John Kerry and George W. Bush signs disappeared close to the election. That same year, a Columbus lawyer admitted he'd told his 13-year-old daughter to take a Kerry sign from a Northwest Side yard.

Upper Arlington residents began reporting stolen Obama signs in late August, said Jackie Ackison of the police records division. No one has reported a stolen John McCain sign, she said.

Maybe that's because Obama supporters aren't criminals!

[hobbit709]

1. Paint the signs with a solution of nitrogen triiodide

Makes a flash and stains your hands a reddish purple.

[Orsino]

2. They're just warming up for stealing the actual election. n/t

[RTFirefly]

3. Forget it, Jake. It's Ohio.

I would expect nothing less from the classless white trash that I was raised around. Granted, I was from more of the Cincinnati area, but still. Ohio has more per-capita idiots than any other northern state. Fun place.

[mwb970]

8. The SW corner (around Cincinnati) is definitely the most conservative.

Columbus is pretty good by comparison with the countryside. Sort of like Austin, stranded in the middle of Texas.

[GoesTo11]

4. Stealing registrations too.. They can't stand democracy.

With all these Republican tactics about disenfranchisement, it's a wonder they don't just officially dismantle the constitution. They don't love what it is that made America special. This was the first democracy in 2 millennia.

[RBInMaine]

5. Put up TWICE as many now !

[seabeyond]

6. republican handbook 101. steal, steal, steal signs. they think it is just part of the game. thef t

stealing. thou shalt not steal. but of course they justify this sin too......

[liberal1973]

7. It just proves that these republicans are un-American

[progressivebydesign]

9. I have an idea for replacement signs! It might stop them!

We need new signs that say, in a homemade fashion: "OBAMA 08 You Can Steal Our Signs But Not Our Votes!" OR.. "OBAMA 08 - You can steal our signs but not our hope!" or "OBAMA 08 - The Sign They Didn't Want You To See"

[nc4bo]

10. I love your idea. I really do. nt

[SoxFan]

11. Not that I'm suggesting this or anything, but

Big staples along the top edge of the sign. Those industrial-strength, staple-gun staples. Trust me, if someone grabs a sign with those, they'll remember the experience.

Note: this only works with card stock signs, not those infernal trash bag things.