Razor Blades in campaign sign

[alfredo]

I wonder if it isn't too much of a stretch to say this candidate's campaign wanted to teach that property manager a lesson? Someone is going to be slapped with a law suit.



Man cut by campaign sign planted on private property

By Aaron Lee and Mike Morell
New Era Progress
Friday, September 21, 2007


AMHERST - A man pulling up a campaign sign staked in the Naola area was severely cut last week by a razor blade embedded in the bottom of the sign, authorities said.

The sign, for District 3 board of supervisors candidate Tim Beverly, was planted on private property managed by the victim, Amherst County Sheriff Jimmy Ayers said on Thursday.

Beverly is one of six candidates vying for Amherst County’s District 3 seat in this November’s elections.

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The victim had previously pulled one of Beverly’s signs from the property located near Minor’s Branch Road. Then, on the evening of Sept. 12, the victim was cut by one of three, two-inch utility-knife blades tucked into the bottom edge of a new sign, authorities said.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Law suit? I'm pretty sure that booby-trapping is *criminal*.

[alfredo]

2. That's a given. They said they haven't pressed charges yet.

The suit will come when guilt is determined.

[Dr.Phool]

3. Screw 'em!

The razor blades are a bit too much, but the asshole should be put in jail for stealing campaign signs!

As someone who's put up literally thousands of signs, legally over the last couple of years, you get pretty pissed off when they're gone the next day.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. Here's a link to the article. Someone put the signs up without the consent of the property manager

And he's the one that got his hand cut.
According to the article, a number of signs were trapped like this. And they were put on the property without permission.

http://www.neweraprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=NEP/MGArticle/NEP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352839767

Beverly said he removed the Slapp Creek sign the evening of Sept. 12 after finding the razor blades in it, Ayers said.

“I am not going to let this deter me from running,” Beverly said of his candidacy.

It is illegal to post campaign signs on private property without the owner’s consent. Beverly did not have permission to put the signs on the victim’s property, (Amherst County Sheriff) Ayers said.

(emphasis mine)

[Dr.Phool]

5. That's different then.

I had a house for sale a few years ago, and I was really pissed off at a do-nothing listing agent, so I fired him, and terminated the contract. He wasn't very happy about it. The house was way back in an isolated, cul-de-sac neighborhood, so you needed several directional signs to find it.

I put the house up for sale "By Owner", and put my own signs up around the area. They kept disappearing, and I suspected the agent, who happened to have a few listings nearby.

On my new signs, I got this stuff from work called Crater Compound, that they used for lubricant in locomotive gearboxes. We called it Grease From Hell. If one speck of it got on your pants cuff, by the end of the day, it was in your hair, on your face, and it didn't wash off. It was like tar, and it had to wear off.

I put some of that on my signs, and a few more disappeared, but then it stopped. I guess whoever it was, didn't want to touch those signs anymore.

:rofl:

Last year, during a congressional campaign, repukes were stealing our signs as fast as we could put them up. We didn't have a large budget, and signs are expensive. In the areas where they were stealing the larger ones especially fast, I started spraying them with hot pepper concentrate. A million Scovill units hot. The first batch disappeared, but the second batch stayed. Imagine a repuke picking his nose, rubbing his eye, or taking a piss after stealing a sign. No wounds or permanent damage, but a lot of discomfort.

[alfredo]

6. Sorry about the mix up on links. That was meant for another forum.

[JNelson6563]

7. hahaha! Thief gets hurt during theft.

In 2004 we had Rethugs stealing lawnsigns all the time. Especially off of high profile properties. I'd like to think people wouldn't be stupid enough to go crying to the authorities for getting hurt while commiting a crime but what do I know?

Myself, I think some pine sap on the signs would be good. It's clear, not easily seen (especially in the dark when these cowards like to do their dirty work) and is really hard to get off.

Julie

[alfredo]

8. No. The sign was put up in his yard without his permission.

He pulled it up. The campaign told him it was their right to put the sign where they want. So when they replaced it, they put razor blades in the sign to punish him.

[JNelson6563]

10. Ah, well in that case I'd sue the crap out of 'em.

:toast:

[alfredo]

11. I don't mind playing tricks, but what they did was sick.

[DS1]

9. I see people are still reading what they want to read, and not

what the article says.

[alfredo]

12. The bottom line is, they were wrong by putting razor blades in that

sign and others that were illegally placed on public property. The campaign, even if they were right that it wasn't private property, was still wrong by illegally putting a sign up on public property.

[DS1]

13. The campaign was wrong in everything they did

but it's still amusing to see a decent number of reactions blaming the guy getting rid of them as 'getting back at the sign stealers'

[alfredo]

14. I don't like sign stealers. The local republicans are notorious for

doing that.