Fwd: POLITICAL SIGN VANDALISM

This sent into me by a reader I presume

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From: William Sapp
Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Subject: POLITICAL SIGN VANDALISM



I live at the edge of Athens-Clarke County with a long Belmont Road frontage.  I've been engaged in a political sign war with vandals or perhaps just one vandal with a penchant for stealing Obama signs by the score.  Usually this slimy vandal(s) strikes in the dead of night...I must have replaced 20 signs!  Rarely signs disappear in broad daylight.  Are these anti-American types so stupid that they don't realize when they see twice as many signs reappear after they've struck that the candidate is benefiting more from their vandalism than ever?  I've spent around $100 just to keep up with him..but  by now I've had it.  I've resorted to  night stakeouts with flash digital camera, air horn, and cell phone poised to call the cops.  Are these thieves unaware of the First Amendment, do they only respect exercise of the Second Amendment?  Perhaps not even that, because they've stolen my Veterans for Obama signs too!  I've resorted to making a large wooden sign and nailing it about 12 feet up in a pine tree..with streamers to attract the eyes of passersby..each time this crimson- naped person pulls off the streamers..we just apply twice as many the next day.  Why are these slugs so afraid of Obama? Hopefully, you will have a laugh when you see the picture attached:




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