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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMan caught stealing Ossoff signs is arrested
Thanks to a Twitter campaign to track him down!
He was filmed jamming stolen signs into an already full trunk. The clip captured his GA license plate...
http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/man-accused-stealing-jon-ossoff-signs-arrested-roswell/NcHKJE9207uGAwGfqQ0tfN/
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)What did he hope to accomplish? Though it does prove that the opposition is afraid. I remember a few years back when a guy in the Denver area was arrested for stealing - I think it was Obama - signs. He was caught when he ran into a clothesline and knocked himself out. The home - and sign - owner found the thief knocked out cold in his driveway...
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Karma can do that sometimes!
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)He was lying there covered with stolen signs! They caught both him and his wife - she was waiting for him nearby in a van filled with the signs they'd stolen. The homeowner called the police and they were both arrested. It really was karma - and it made the national news...
malaise
(269,039 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Cha
(297,285 posts)What a clunk.. stupid thief.
Steal our Jon Ossoff's sign will ya?!!!
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)So that's one ~
Here's to one Nice wrapup of the election yesterday
demmiblue
(36,863 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)He probably also thinks there are still child sex slaves tied up in the basement of Comet Ping-Pong.
"We have a basement? Why didn't anyone tell me?" -- the owner of Comet Ping-Pong.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)I saw the video yesterday and made a note to follow up. Great news. Thanks.
aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)A lesson for all sign stealers or damagers, hopefully.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Was it just Ossoff signs or were they stealing other opposition signs, like Handel (doing it for Gray or Moody)?
caraher
(6,278 posts)Response to SticksnStones (Original post)
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SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Not gonna play.
Gothmog
(145,293 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)"What's up?".
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)That makes me tend to believe he was only charged once. He should have been charged with one count of theft (or malicious mischief) for each sign in his car, and there were many.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)It's a non violent offense...only so much can practically be done I think...
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)a goddamned FELONY. Why isn't it??
BannonsLiver
(16,395 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Seeing how everything lined up just right -
BannonsLiver
(16,395 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)their voting rights for all elections would be revoked for at least the next election for the same office.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)We are the good guys
We are the good guys
....
You get the picture and tune, right.
flying-skeleton
(697 posts)or NOT