Couple that hung empty chairs from trees finds chair marked "4 more years" nailed to their driveway

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Grand Haven couple with hanging lawn chairs gets an unwelcomed Election night surprise
Kyle Moroney | [e-mail] By Kyle Moroney | [e-mail]
on November 07, 2012 at 11:29 AM, updated November 07, 2012 at 12:03 PM

GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP -- The Grand Haven Township couple who came under scrutiny about a month before the presidential election for hanging empty chairs in their front yard discovered an unwelcomed addition to their display of political signs, American flags and empty chairs this morning.

Ken and Judy David, who live across from an elementary school on Comstock Street, found a white outdoor chair marked with “4 more years,” “racist pig” and other profanities at the end of their driveway the morning after the election. The chair’s back, right leg was nailed to the David’s driveway, as the other back leg remained airborne.

“It’s not nice,” Ken David said to his wife when they found the chair before 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7.

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[Puzzledtraveller]

1. Maybe just, funny? no

[slackmaster]

2. Trespassing and vandalism are not OK

[BarackTheVote]

14. Still better for them than winding up in Gitmo

for threatening the life of the president.

[OldDem2012]

16. Neither is engaging in acts symbolic of the act of lynching. nt.

[randome]

19. Consider it creative graffiti.

[slackmaster]

22. I regard it as a juvenile prank

[randome]

25. That's what juveniles DO!

Of course I'm making an assumption here. Maybe it was Clint Eastwood in a fit of remorse. Nah.

[efhmc]

23. Agreed. As my mom taught me, "two wrongs don't make a right".

[progressivebydesign]

28. end of the driveway? Well.. part of that is public right of way... nt

[Jim Lane]

39. I don't think people have a right to nail chairs to the public sidewalk.

Even if we assume this "end" was the part where the driveway crosses a sidewalk, that doesn't give the vandals carte blanche.

[PatSeg]

29. I agree

That is the sort of thing that right-wingers do and I was proud that we rarely hear of such acts from the left. We tend to do these things in our minds, but we respect other people's property no matter how outrageously they may behave.

[backscatter712]

30. Fuck 'em. They earned it.

I'm sure they'll survive the experience.

[BenzoDia]

3. Bit extreme response.....but I won't lose any sleep.

[TBF]

4. They thought it was funny when they hung the chairs from the trees -

not so funny anymore? Typical republicans.

[patricia92243]

5. Yep!

[GoCubsGo]

6. "It's not nice."

And, neither are you, Kenny Boy. If you can't take it, don't dish it out, asshole.

[otohara]

9. The Irony

he lives in the FOX bubble

[TahitiNut]

36. He's taking the high ground

... on Bullshit Mountain.

[intheflow]

7. Instant karma gonna get you!

Maybe "not nice," but you did go the extra mile to be a dick pre-election, Mr. David. And by and large, you get what you give in this world.

[librechik]

8. performance art

gee, I hope they didn't use an air nailer and concrete anchors--that would be vandalism.

[freshwest]

11. At least they didn't crucify a chair to his trees like the cat. Cats got abused this year.

For political terrorism. Wingnuts hate cats. We herd them.

I'm not feeling too sorry for these guys. Wishing a lynching on someone and visualizing it to the public is a stab in the heart. A chair with 4 more years in the driveway doesn't say that, it just says to accept reality.

Even then, I hope they didn't do any real damage to property.

[Downtown Hound]

10. "It's not nice"...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! How old are you, two?

[OldDem2012]

12. You reap what you sow. Think about it. nt.

[txdemsftw]

13. ..

Vandalism? Yes.

Funny? Um..YES!

[Arkana]

15. Turnabout's fair play in this case.

Fucking racist assholes got what was coming to them.

[HopeHoops]

17. Being racist pigs isn't nice either.

(No offense to actual pigs intended)

[Skittles]

20. I don't advocate vandalism but....

Mr. and Mrs. David are truly an ugly, disgusting pair.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Love it.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

24. "It's not nice", they say?

Amazing hypocrisy.

[Doodler71]

26. Like all bullies,

They only cry foul when it is done to them, but never take responsibility for their own behavior.

Those upset by this, consider it a lesson in empathy.

[progressivebydesign]

27. "it's not nice!" really? And simulating the lynching of your President IS NICE????

Just fuck these assholes. I'm sick of their assholery. All of them. Hope they build a bomb shelter, like Glenn Beck has told them to do, and go sit in there for four more years. I'm sick of the RWNJs.

[Whovian]

31. Payback's a (word I can't say here).

[cecilfirefox]

32. Best story post win, for sure!! nt

[Phentex]

33. That is SO awesome!

[Amaril]

34. Would I have done it? No.

Would I have discouraged someone else from doing it if they told me of their plan? Yes.

Can I appreciate the delicious irony in their shock and offense that someone gave them a taste of their own medicine? Oh, yeah. You betcha.

[Xyzse]

35. Not nice...

I think that was juvenile...
However, I can't see myself feeling any sympathy for them either.

I consider it a wash.

[L0oniX]

37. Dead pig in Romney t-shirt gets investigation while people's hanging chairs get no investigation.

[Ken Burch]

38. How the hell do you nail something to concrete without waking people up?

Wouldn't that require some kind of massive, industrial-grade nail gun?

[davsand]

40. Can't muster much sympathy for them.

In fact, if they are looking for sympathy I'd suggest they check the dictionary someplace between shit and syphilis...

Having SAID that, however, I do feel compelled to offer the usual parental warning that destruction of property or vandalism is not a behavior that any thinking adult should endorse.

Have a nice day, Mr David.



Laura

[Jim Lane]

41. To quote Zaphod Beeblebrox: 10 out of 10 for style, but minus several million for good thinking.

More generally, I agree with Amaril in #34, a good summary.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. Don't you just love the web?

http://www.ehow.com/list_5932081_tools-nail-concrete.html

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

43. It's particularly irritating that the Davids front yard faces a thoroughfare and an elementary

school. Yes, they have a right to do a mock lynching on their own property, I suppose. But, forgive me if I don't shed a tear for them because someone responded to their public racist tableau by pulling a little prank the poster couple for "not nice" found "not nice."