I am so not proud of myself tonight. This is indeed a new low for me.

[Pacifist Patriot]

I stole a McCain yard sign.

But there is more to the story. My neighborhood does not permit signs in yards so they have accummulated on a grassy knoll just outside the subdivision. My Obama sign has been stolen three times. Tonight I drove by and saw that not only was the Obama sign stolen, but a McCain one was put in it's place. So I pulled over just to check if once again they had simply thrown it into the woods. Nope, it was definitely gone. I couldn't help myself. I slipped the plastic McCain sign right off it's posts. It is now lining the cats' litter box.

Not my proudest moment. So I donated $2.00 to the McCain campaign.

WHAT?!

Yes I did. But this isn't necessarily bad news. I have purchased from the Obama store but have declined to donate directly in cash. Horribly irrational and superstitious, but every time I donate money to a candidate they lose. Yep, I have never in my life ever donated to the winning side. I am convinced my money is cursed.

So in one fell swoop I eased my conscience a little on the sign and doomed McCain to a resounding defeat.

Oooo, I hear scratching in the other room. Me thinks McCain's name may be in the process of being shat upon.

[Thrill]

1. LOL!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Not like he hasn't been doing a good enough job by himself that is.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Here ya go:

:spank:

Now go forth and do good. ;)

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Thank you sir, may I have another.

That's the correct response, yes? :)

[NJGeek]

5. Too funny

Don't feel guilty, everytime I pass a McCain sign near me (and there aren't too many of them in suburban NJ but some), I want to drive over them, and their lawns.

But that wouldn't be prudent.

[LostinVA]

6. I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

hahahahahhahahahhahaha

Way to go, Rev!

(got your PM, btw)

[Pacifist Patriot]

33. LOL! Love you too babe!

My kids didn't think I was serious about putting it in the kitty litter box. Mommy of the year here set a wildly poor example for her children. Stole a sign, wrote "SUCKS" across it in bold black marker and then used it to line the litter box. And I checked. His name has indeed been shat upon. I hope they do not take after me.

[roguevalley]

71. I hope they do. They will help save this country one cat box at a time. :)

[ShortnFiery]

7. You are truly a kind soul.

Forgive yourself ... you're bumming me out because I could not be so forthright and thoughtful. ;)

BTW my favorite part of your input:

I couldn't help myself. I slipped the plastic McCain sign right off it's posts. It is now lining the cats' litter box.

:rofl:

[FreeState]

8. Careful - stealing signs is not good and CAN cost an election - I know first hand

When I was 16 I was on my way home from work and caught an incumbent stealing signs.

Guess what happened... the incumbent lost.

(Going to search the Seattle times to see if they have stories from the 80s online LOL)

[LostinVA]

9. I just got the part about the litter box!!!!!!!!

:lol:

[Gregorian]

10. Well, even Jesus took after the money changers with a whip.

I doubt he had remorse.


No, this has gotten far too difficult to endure. Just think back on election night 2004. Or the long winding road to the cesspool in 1999. That's a hell of a long time to go through this awful nightmare. All the time with them breaking the laws, laughing at us, and killing Iraqis and Afghanis. Oh, and torturing people.


Feel good. You've been forgiven. By me! :)

[ShortnFiery]

12. Perhaps you're a liberal Catholic like me? We feel guilty about everything - even stuff we ...

think about doing. :blush:

[Gregorian]

15. No, I was raised a Protestant.

I guess we're the troublemakers.

But guilt is in my genes. So I might as well be a Catholic.

[ShortnFiery]

52. No, you're just Good People IMO.

I'm having a crisis of faith although I continue to attend Mass. I'm going to freely go to Confession someday soon - but I don't think I will be of a humble heart and mind until after this Presidential Election.

Best wishes to you. :hi: :-)

[Gregorian]

67. Right on.

I haven't been to church in decades. But my heart is always in church. Actually, my dad used to be a minister. He's one of the only people I've ever known who really does understand the bible. He has studied it like an engineering book. Just connecting dots. Oh crap, the last time I wrote something like this I got the rabid responses.

I hear you. It's hard to believe this has been eight years. A long difficult education. But it has been worth every second just to get to have this kind of communication. Priceless. :)

[KewlKat]

11. Oh, I wish I could do that.......stop the guilt

There is a huge trailer with an elephant on it and it's plastered with tons of puke campaign signs, locals, etc.........I so want to hurt the critter or do something. It's in a highly visible location and secured. There is NO dem presence around here. I'm in a very red area ........ yuck.

[ddeclue]

13. If it is in the public right of way you are actually saving the taxpayers dollars.

The sign has been ABANDONED by its owner if placed in the right of way and the local gov't has to keep the ROW clear.

Don't feel bad about it.

Doug D.

[HughMoran]

14. Sounds like justice

Some kids took all the signs from the store down the street and added a mustache to Palin and horns on McCain on the picture sign - lol!

[FreeState]

16. Seattle Times article about what happens when you steal signs:_

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1988/8801250785.asp


DID STATE REP. SANDERS SNITCH HIS RIVAL'S SIGNS? NOT TRUE, HE SAYS

By Neil Modie P-I Reporter

WEDNESDAY, September 14, 1988
Section: News, Page: B3

State Rep. Paul Sanders flatly denied being a late-night campaign sign- snatcher yesterday and said a complaint made by his opponent to Bellevue police is a sign of desperation.

"No, absolutely not, that's ridiculous," Sanders said of the allegation made by his Republican primary election challenger, former state Rep. Steve Van Luven. A teen-age supporter of Van Luven said he saw Sanders steal one of his opponent's yard signs from a Bellevue lawn late Sunday.

Bellevue police Lt. Steve Bourgette said a report on the investigation of Van Luven's sign-stealing complaint probably will be turned over to the city prosecutor's office today.

[Window]

17. Too funny.

:rofl:


Can I send you some money to donate to McCain to assure a loss.

[Joey Liberal]

18. LOL! nt

[vanderBeth]

19. So it was YOU who caused them to lose!

You and your damn donations!

[Pacifist Patriot]

38. Yep. All my fault. My husband also won't let me stay in the room when the Patriots have possession.

They tend to score only when I'm peeing.

[chalky]

20. Why, oh why do I insist on consuming and/or drinking while reading the boards?

Your last line damn near killed me. Performing a self-Heimlich while choking on a meatball sub ain't easy, y'all.

[asdjrocky]

21. Let me get this straight-

You're a pacifist, but you stole a sign. I can't help it, I love it. I'm doing everything I can right now not to leave my house in the middle of the night to steel all of the Yes on 8 signs in my neighborhood.

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. Hey, no one came to any bodily harm.

And I did compensate them for their loss. I'd make a bloody awful criminal.

[asdjrocky]

29. Yes, you would.

I would suggest that after this you pursue a straight life. Er, at least one free of crime since you seem to be awful at it. But come to think of it, you did get away with it...

[Chichiri]

22. I cannot approve. Because . . .

. . . if I did, I would be stealing every McCain sign within a 5-mile radius.

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. In my area that would take until inauguration day.

[Sydnie]

25. Ok, I'll make a little confession too

In 2004, I was driving from my state to a neighboring state to canvas for Kerry. I had planned on doing a bit of bill posting when possible so I had printed up a good number of the DNC's graphic of the two faced Bush picture. I also purchased several cans of spray adhesive so I would be ready when the opportunity knocked.

Well, on many on and off ramps on the highway there were bush/cheney signs and I just had to pull over and grab my supplies and slap those home made banners right over the top of those signs. So, I didn't remove the signs exactly, but I did alter the meaning from it's original intent.

There, I said it and I feel better.

Maybe in a few weeks I can come clean about some of the freeway blogging I did during that period too.

Ahhh, memories. I will enjoy them.

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. LOL!

I think what pissed me off most about this was their use of MY Obama posts.

[Chulanowa]

30. Well, then... your posts, so your sign

No cause for conscience :) After all those posts are worth more than some crummy ol' McCain sign

[Lerrad]

26. LOL!! - You made my day..

After a long hectic week at work I need ed to hear that. I love it, "It is now lining the cats' litter box."

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. Glad to be of service.

But really, why am I feeling such guilt over this? I feel like I've just robbed the collection plate. Must shake this off!

[FLyellowdog]

72. We're Democrats...

We're basically good people who sometimes have to do shady things for enlightened reasons. Don't worry...we won't tell.

[demigoddess]

28. haven't seen many Mccain signs except on very large landowners land.

Ones have many acres. I say the sign of their choice speaks for itself.

[BrklynLiberal]

31. How does that qualify as stealing? If someone put one inyour yard t replace an Obama sign that you

had there..that is NOT stealing.

[Pacifist Patriot]

32. The signs weren't in my yard, but on a major roadway the entrance to our subdivision is on.

What they did was slip off my Obama plastic and replace it with McCain's plastic. So it was essentially juvenile tit for tat on my part. We're both guilty of sign stealing.

[BrklynLiberal]

45. OOOOhhhhhhhhhhh. you are still forgiven..

:thumbsup: :hi:

[lizzieforkerry]

46. No, I think he stole yours and GAVE you one.

It belonged to you, it is OK to take it.

[FLyellowdog]

34. Local ordinances may be on your side.

In some areas, signs cannot be put on the rights of way by roads/streets...only on personal properties with the permission of the property owners. Check it out.

[goodgd_yall]

55. Even if they can be put on rights of way

Any one has a right to remove them. It's public property, yes? So you aren't stealing or destroying any one's sign. I destroyed a sign that was on the easement of a main road.

[Fly by night]

35. Habanero paste slathered on my sign (and those of neighbors) has worked great.

We all had signs stolen before I started grinding up those fiery hot peppers with a little olive oil and coating the outer edges of our signs with the napalm paste. After that, I did notice my sign askew once, but it was still there.

I hope the Rethug who grabbed my sticky sign put his hand to his nose to see what the goo was and cauterized every nose hair and sinus cell he had.

That's one neo-Nazi skinhead Rethuglican who is now bald on the inside of his skull as well as the outside.

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. Four years ago our HOA was not nearly as strict. I had a Kerry sign stolen from my yard and then...

greased the next one up with vaseline mixed with capsaicin powder. I was able to identify the thief the next day when the high school kids got off their school bus. This go round the HOA is clamping down and not permitting any political signage of any kind. Probably all for the best actually. I'm not sure I want to know which of my neighbors are dumbbutt fucktard stupid.

[quakerboy]

39. I was planning to deface my Uncles

McCain sign. But it vanished before I could get there.

[Pacifist Patriot]

40. Now I swear, THAT one wasn't me.

[quakerboy]

43. I almost think

he may have been embarrassed enough to have gotten rid of it, but too proud to admit it.

I don't blame you. I have been seriously contemplating removing some of the astroturfed signs around here. I would not, no matter how much I want to, go around pulling the McCain and Smith signs from peoples yards. But from empty lots and right of ways, thats different.

[quantass]

41. Hahahhaa, FUNNY STUFF. Kitty Litter is so appropriate. Put to good use.

[RollWithIt]

42. I stole a McCain bumpersticker.... but.....

There is a story behind it. I live in a gated condo complex. I had an Obama bumper sticker on my car and two weeks ago I parked out front. I walked my dog past the car and saw my sticker still on my car. The next morning I came out and the sticker had been stolen.

There is a McCain supporter that lives in the same building. He parks his car five spaces away from mine. I was so pissed off after I realized someone in my own complex had stolen my sticker, I peeled his off his car in retaliation. I have no idea if it was him who took mine. It was an eye for an eye kind of thing.

Oh well, just stickers!

[sunnybrook]

44. The difference between you and them?

You have a conscience. I doubt if any of the sign stealers of your signs gave it a thought, probably were happy to do it! Forgive yourself!

[sweetroxie]

47. I guess I'm a bad person

This morning I was walking my dog and there, right in the middle of this public field that I pay taxes to maintain, was a McCain sign. It has no business polluting my view. My Obama sign has been stolen as has every other Obama sign in my town. Whoever the sign thief is, he/she has no right to put ANY political signs on public land, least of all a McPalin sign! So I plucked it out of the ground and happily dropped it in the trash. So there!

[goodgd_yall]

56. You're not bad

You can take objectionable political signs off public property. I'm all for that. I destroyed a Yes on Proposition 8 sign that was put up along a road here---not in anyone's property. And I'll do it again if I see one on public property.

[demokatgurrl]

48. Mad props to your cat!!!! nt

[rainman99]

49. I almost didn't let my daughter go to a party with a McCain sign

in the yard tonight. She could tell when we were driving up and said 'MOM, let it go'.

[No Passaran]

50. LOL

I'm laughing so loud here. Great story

[graywarrior]

51. I should lecture you

But I'd rather hug you!

[greenmutha]

53. ROFL!

I normally wouldn't condone stealing... But!
Methinks you did a *wonderful* thing. :hug:

[Matariki]

54. Great post!

[LittleClarkie]

57. I'm disappointed in your cat

I should think it would have had more integrity.

[glowing]

58. Don't worry, they give them away for free.

[stillcool]

59. Thank you for misplacing the sign...

I am so glad it led to you putting the mojo on McCain.

[last_texas_dem]

60. Hey, don't feel bad...

Having your Obama sign stolen and replaced by a McCain one, it seems just that the McCain one would be removed. Plus, I think you went above and beyond by sending a couple of bucks to the McCain campaign.

(Plus, I can't say I've never been guilty of messing around with someone else's yard sign myself...

haha!)

[eltentwelve]

61. Somewhere in another part of the woods...

...someone's fashioning a home out of the stolen yard signs. LOL

[codjh9]

62. I love it! Thanks. And don't feel bad! It's almost all I can do not to steal 'em ALL. n/t

[FlyingSquirrel]

63. Since we're in the confessional...

one night I was walking my dog through the neighborhood and grabbed a ten-commandments sign out of a neighbor's yard.

[Pacifist Patriot]

64. Is that an express ticket to hell?

:)

[daggahead]

65. Oh, you'll have a seat right next to me in hell ... n/t

[jberryhill]

66. You might consider replacing it

Just sayin...

[Pacifist Patriot]

68. Oh I don't think they'll want it back now.

[jberryhill]

70. I meant with a new one...

[Pacifist Patriot]

74. I know. I was deliberately being thick.

:) Cheers

[applexcore]

69. Can we get a picture?

Of the Kitty using the bathroom on the McCain sign?

[Pacifist Patriot]

76. Took awhile to catch one in the act, but here is the photographic evidence of my life of crime.

[Arugula Latte]

77. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

What a perfect use for a McCain sign.

:rofl:

[Pacifist Patriot]

78. Hmmmm, you do make a fair point.

[Emit]

73. There's one McCain sign I drive by every day on my way to work

it sits oh so close to the side of the street -- a street with no sidewalks. You don't know how many times I have imagined accidentally running over it a bit, just a nudge ... okay, plowing the hell over it! It'd be an easy thing to manage, for someone so inclined.

On a related note, I was driving on this same street today, behind a woman with a bumper sticker that read: "Obama makes me throw up a little in my mouth." On the side of her vehicle, she had a large advertisement: Reno Signs: http://www.renosigns.biz/

I just left them a message about how offended I was by their bumper sticker and how I would never, ever use their services as a result. Not that it will matter, but, I feel better about it.

[GalleryGod]

75. Say 3 Hail Marys and 2 Our Fathers. Go in Peace!

[Generic Other]

79. You are not stealing!!

You hung up the Obama sign. It was your post not theirs. If you hang your undies on the clothesline and someone comes and switches yours with their dirty old ones full of holes, you are not obliged to keep them on the line! In fact, you can rightly use them to line the kitty litter box.

[VoodooGuru]

80. If that's not a DUzy, I don't know what is.