For sign pilferer, politicians aren't only ones falling flat on their face

[kerryin2004]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_3264139,00.html

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For sign pilferer, politicians aren't only ones falling flat on their face
By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News
October 19, 2004

A Lakewood Republican stealing campaign signs late one night got nabbed when he ran across a low- hanging driveway chain, fell face first onto a pilfered sign and the concrete and knocked himself unconscious.

Randal Wagner, 50, was loaded into an ambulance, treated at Lutheran Medical Center for abrasions and facial cuts and issued a summons.

Wagner, who unsuccessfully tried to steal a "Dave Thomas" congressional sign that evening, had signs for other Democratic candidates in his Toyota pickup, Wheat Ridge police reported.

"I did a very stupid thing," Wagner said Monday, admitting theft of the signs. "I got caught up in the political passions of this highly contested election."

[Mister K]

1. He gets my vote for moron of the day......or night as the case was

[mark0rama]

10. He got my vote too,

for next weeks Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

I can't imagine he'll fail to make the list!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. Nah....he's not a moron. He's just really stupid....

...A moron wouldn't be able to recognize that he or she had done anything really stupid.

[KurtNYC]

13. In his mind the stupid thing was getting caught

what good is stealing a sign anyway?

[ewagner]

2. I'm relieved

if this was Ohio or Florida it might have been one of my relatives.......the behavior is similar......

[Eye and Monkey]

3. "I did a very stupid thing - I got caught"

Now THAT's a republiCON.

[callous taoboy]

4. Too bad

a large dog didn't take a wee on him while he was down for the count.

[Chico Man]

5. I've had two Kerry signs stolen from my house in RI

Strangely enough, the second one was returned two days later.

I believe he must have been caught as well. This sign was fairly heavy duty and heavy (made of wood and steel) and easily identifiable.

Maybe a teenager was caught by their parents?

[shawn703]

6. I wish they had a video of that

I need a good laugh today.

[nosmokes]

7. even money he's back at it.

there oughta be a special category for stifling free speech. he should be forced to cast his votes for the dems and donate $ and pick up signs after the election is over, because no one wants that job.

[kerryin2004]

8. I already called him and thanked him:)

I left a message that I was a registered Republican and I really respect what he did..I said they don't need anyone else to vote for..Bush should get 99.5 % of the vote and the only reason he doesn't get 100% is because .5% are too sick.. I made him aware of how commendable it was for a 50 year old man to be out there stealing signs..I hope he gets the irony, after all Saddam always received 99% of the vote..

[Anakin Skywalker]

17. Bush Base might be too dense for irony.

Heh heh heh. That's a good one, though! Hope the doofus understands it.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. I hope the judge is a Democrat. n/t

[Hand]

18. "Bogus remorse is no excuse."

"We'll let the gallows finish the job the chain started. DEATH BY HANGING." :evilgrin:

(JUST KIDDING!!!!)

[Inland]

11. Thief, stupid, not entirely conscious--sounds like a Bush supporter

[Supersedeas]

14. signs for other Democratic candidates...hmmm...wonder whom that might be

"a very stupid thing....I got caught"

A new republican slogan

[lakemonster11]

15. This might be a silly question,

but what is a "low-hanging driveway chain"?

[mitchtv]

16. I usded to use one, maybe its the same

I strung a chain across my driveway because it protected my gate form being hit by U-turns in my driveway. They are used in rural locations to keep vehicles off your property

[lakemonster11]

26. Okay

I've seen those before, I was just having a hard time picturing them in a residential neighborhood.

[yardwork]

19. I wonder if the Republican Party is paying people to steal signs?

There's so much of this going on all over the country.

It reminds me of the number of disruptors we get here on DU. I've seen similar disruptors operate on boards following courtroom trials. I know that there are shady "pr" firms that pay people to disrupt bulletin boards, attempting to influence public opinion.

It's all part of the current Republican Party pattern of suppressing facts and broadcasting lies about their opposition. Their whole approach is so anti-American.

[OutsourceBush]

28. Both sides are doing it, it is part of the ground war

and it goes on all night long.

[Blue Gardener]

20. Should be a Darwin award recipient

What a total dumbass.

[Senior citizen]

21. I'm not going to laugh.

I'm not going to laugh.

I'm not going to laugh.


BWAAAAAAAHAAHAAHAHAHAHA!

:evilgrin:

[sonias]

22. Get a brain, freeper moran!

50 years old and he's a f**king petty thief. Grow up freeper! Too funny about the bozo smashing in his own face. And frankly Mrs freeper should be issued a summons as well, she is equally as guilty driving the getaway car.

Sonia

[Zerex71]

23. What an assmunch.

Seriously. While I'm all for taking down BushCo signs -- after all, isn't this the land of free speech? -- Republicans know they can't win ANYTHING on merit anymore, so they resort to this kind of thing. They are obsessed with the fact that the world in reality does not conform to their warped views of it, so rather than adapting and changing their belief system, they just try to eradicate any evidence to the contrary. It even goes on up to Furious George.

Mike

[LeftCoast]

24. I would pay to see the video!

Maybe I'm just in a sadistic mood, but I would LOVE to have seen this caught on tape. :evilgrin:

[Dem2theMax]

25. Poor guy.

First he gets a write up in the Rocky Mountain News. Then it hits the InternetS. Then Olbermann mentions him, by name.

His 'stupidity' has made him a national laughingstock.

Poor guy.

:evilgrin:

[Maddy McCall]

27. Hahahahaha! Idiot.

[bleowheels]

29. "They stole the last election, and now they stole my Kerry-Edwards....

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