Tearisci
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Post by Tearisci on Oct 14, 2024 14:02:00 GMT
Woke up and went to water my front yard yesterday and noticed that my sign was gone. A few weeks ago, someone put a little US flag next to it and the flag was still there but my sign was gone.
I live on a fairly busy road with no parking and it happened overnight. Of course, my new Ring doorbell is sitting in the box waiting to be installed. I live in a pretty quiet and fairly affluent community in DFW and have never had any problems before.
My niece thinks it was kids because she can remember in HS that kids would grab a bunch of signs and put them in someone's yard. I'm hoping that's what it was an wasn't because it was political.
I ordered two new signs that will be here on Wednesday so we'll see if they last!
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Post by heckofagal on Oct 14, 2024 14:04:33 GMT
I hear this pretty often and it's always the Harris sign getting stolen, never the Trump signs.
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Post by paulao on Oct 14, 2024 14:21:31 GMT
I so dearly want to paintball Trump/Vance signs but I won’t. Yet I’m afraid to put a Harris/Walz sign in my window because of vandalism.
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Post by naby64 on Oct 14, 2024 14:28:08 GMT
This is all over Tiktok. People's signs for Harris are being stolen. No Trump signs are being taken. I have seen some people who are putting Vaseline around the edges and a very fine glitter. Some were going so far as to attach it to a wire cable, attached to a fence. With a screamer alarm on it when separated.
I would love to have a sign in the yard. As a house divided, that means we would also have to have the other one. That I won't abide.
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Post by Tearisci on Oct 14, 2024 14:36:55 GMT
My GF said she'd send me replacements for as many as get stolen so now it's on. There used to be more political signs in my neighborhood but maybe they're being stolen too. I had it from before Walz was the running mate so it lasted a pretty long time.
Time to get my Ring doorbell installed!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 14, 2024 14:46:49 GMT
Oh, I would totally booby trap any new ones you put out! If AirTags weren’t so expensive I’d go that route just to see where it ends up.
There is a farm on the way to DD’s private music teacher that has a literal Trump shrine set up in the front yard that had a huge 5’x7’ Trump flag mounted to a big wooden sign. When we first saw it last spring we rolled our eyes. A few weeks later someone had spray painted vandalism on it and we laughed about that wondering how long it would take them to replace it because it was so big. Well the following week it was taken down and the week after that there was not just a new one but a whole crop of new smaller ones surrounding it, including a picture of TFG’s head on the top! 🙄🤪 Tell me you’re a cult member without saying you’re a cult member. Geez.
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Post by Merge on Oct 14, 2024 14:52:21 GMT
I heard some older women in the gym last week complaining about this very thing. It's ridiculous.
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Post by MissBianca on Oct 14, 2024 14:52:29 GMT
We have a sign war going on near my son’s work. Big old house has Trump banners, signs, a flag, etc. the house across the street started putting up Harris signs, now they have expanded to all the Democratic congresspeople for both state and federal and some other down ballot democrats. I drove by yesterday and they have a big Nope sign with an arrow pointing across the street to the trumpy house. I about spit my coffee out.
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Post by Tearisci on Oct 14, 2024 14:57:27 GMT
I posted it on FB and even my Trump loving ex-SIL thought it was ridiculous. If you don't like the sign, roll your eyes and drive by!
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Post by melanell on Oct 14, 2024 15:06:54 GMT
Someone on our town's FB group were recently saying their Harris signs were removed from their yard, ripped to shreds, and scattered all over the block.
Another resident, whose yard is filled with Harris signs, keeps having bags of dog feces left on her property. Not just at the curb, which one might be able to explain away, but scattered here and there up her driveway and in different areas of her front yard.
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Post by Tearisci on Oct 14, 2024 15:09:00 GMT
Someone on our town's FB group were recently saying their Harris signs were removed from their yard, ripped to shreds, and scattered all over the block. Another resident, whose yard is filled with Harris signs, keeps having bags of dog feces left on her property. Not just at the curb, which one might be able to explain away, but scattered here and there up her driveway and in different areas of her front yard. That's disgusting! My little town is about 50/50 split but I do live in Texas which is predominantly red.
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 14, 2024 17:12:54 GMT
A major cross street had Harris/Walz signs (including some of the cute cat ones) all along the median. I was so happy to see them! Just drove by and they're all gone. Funny how the GOP signs are still there though.
A lady that lives in rural KS offered to meet me to snag some postcards to write also told me her signs keep getting stolen. She just keeps buying more.
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Post by Tearisci on Oct 14, 2024 17:17:47 GMT
I just saw on my town's FB group that a lot of people had their signs stolen over the weekend so I'm definitely not alone.
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Post by monklady123 on Oct 14, 2024 17:21:00 GMT
They're such snowflakes. They're so threatened by even seeing her name that they have to take down or tear up the signs. Meanwhile we Democrats manage to walk/drive by the Trump signs without damaging them. Not to say that somewhere there aren't Trump signs being vandalized but I sure don't hear about them the way I hear about damage and theft of Harris signs. Even the one Trump house in my neighborhood, my VERY BLUE neighborhood, never has anything happen to his many signs. Of course we think all sorts of things. But we don't steal or damage his stupid signs. Or flags.
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Post by bethany102399 on Oct 14, 2024 17:29:45 GMT
I would love to have a sign in the yard. As a house divided, that means we would also have to have the other one. That I won't abide. This is true for us as well.
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Post by workingclassdog on Oct 14, 2024 17:33:51 GMT
I would love to have a sign in the yard. As a house divided, that means we would also have to have the other one. That I won't abide. This is true for us as well. Ditto!
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Post by Bridget in MD on Oct 14, 2024 17:59:35 GMT
I have seen people smear their signs with vaseline and then glitter and cayanne pepper on it. So the next time it's messsed with people will also have a mess.
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Post by pantsonfire on Oct 14, 2024 18:19:01 GMT
I hear this pretty often and it's always the Harris sign getting stolen, never the Trump signs. They get stolen too. As do the far right crazy mom arm school board signs as well. Oh and cut down and destroyed. And they get tagged and have penises drawn on them, or googly eyes added. So now they all have air tags and cameras.
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Post by samantha25 on Oct 14, 2024 18:27:45 GMT
Makes me think more that I will not put up any signs.
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Post by jayfab on Oct 14, 2024 19:00:53 GMT
I'm a Harris supporter and admit I laughed at this article. But in reality I don't want ANY signs stolen. stolen signs
Forgot to add this was in the northern lower peninsula and that is rumpland.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Oct 14, 2024 19:07:59 GMT
Someone has been putting Trump signs (that say Trump-secure border/kamala-open border) literally on every corner by the fire hydrants. I so want to put Harris signs up next to them. It makes me irritable to see them all of the time, along with the huge Trump sign that someone put up on their property on Main Street and some giant signs for the MFL type school board members.
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Post by TXMary on Oct 14, 2024 22:54:11 GMT
It’s sad but I don’t put anything political on my car or in my yard. I don’t trust the crazies around here not to vandalize my car and my house. 🤬
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Post by peamused on Oct 15, 2024 0:08:54 GMT
I knew you were in Texas before I read your post. We live amongst some pretty juvenile adults.
And it's actually quite illegal. There's a local politician here that's been constantly whining on social media about his opponent stealing one of his signs from a busy street corner. Kind of hilarious but also...very juvenile. I wish we had more mature adults in politics. (Then maybe their followers wouldn't be stealing signs.)
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Post by mikklynn on Oct 15, 2024 12:29:50 GMT
My brother, here in Minnesota, has had his Harris/Walz sign stolen 4 times.
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Post by mich5481 on Oct 15, 2024 13:39:50 GMT
A former colleague, who used to work political campaigns, would coat the metal parts of sign holders with honey. It attracted ants, who would then build ant hills around the metal. A lot of times, those ants were fire ants. If you are stealing a sign at night, it's a little hard to see, so...
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Post by jill8909 on Oct 15, 2024 14:42:49 GMT
these are people who voted for someone who mocked a man who had been tortured for 5 years. A POW.
What's a little sign stealing to MAGA?
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Post by scrapngranny on Oct 15, 2024 16:33:37 GMT
Even though I live in a blue state, I live in a very red area. I haven’t seen one Harris sign. The Trump signs are everywhere.
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Post by paulao on Oct 17, 2024 0:14:43 GMT
When driving, I give the finger to any house that has a Trump/Vance sign, and a thumbs up to any Harris/Walz sign. Childish, but it makes me feel better.
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Post by melanell on Oct 17, 2024 0:39:01 GMT
When driving, I give the finger to any house that has a Trump/Vance sign, and a thumbs up to any Harris/Walz sign. Childish, but it makes me feel better. It makes you feel better without hurting or inconveniencing anyone else, and that means you can be as "childish" as you want as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by tincin on Oct 17, 2024 2:14:56 GMT
It’s ridiculous to be stealing signs but I’m sure it’s happening. So far my Harris sign is still in my front yard. I hate seeing the GOP signs but I’m not going to steal them. Like Paulao I occasionally need to flip them off. The small corner grocery store has lined the street with trump signs. I will never shop there again.
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