Video: The obligatory “man wires campaign sign to shock thieves” clip
posted at 9:50 pm on October 30, 2008 by Allahpundit
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A rare case of the book being better than the movie. Sample quote: “They were troubled, she said, that someone had apparently decided to claim the corner on behalf of the Republican Party.” In an article chuck full o’ weirdness — note the description of the guy shocking himself in front of the reporter — surely the weirdest part is this: He Tivo’d the kid getting caught in the act.
Which is not to suggest this is the weirdest story out there about people flipping out over signs. Not by a long, long, long shot. Click the image to watch.
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Question:
What koolaid drinker put the kid up to this???
Viper1 on October 30, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Turn up the dial next time!
SouthernGent on October 30, 2008 at 9:55 PM
LOL!
carbon_footprint on October 30, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Okay, I am definitely a sick individual. I’ve watched the vid 5 times and laughed my a$$ off every time.
SuzEQCitizen on October 30, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Chapel Hill? I’m shocked!
Valiant on October 30, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Kid probably is getting extra credit from his social studies teacher.
Micheal on October 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Exactly my question.
Everyone knows that 9 year old boys would never get into any mischief without kool aid drinking adults forcing them to commit petty acts of vandalism.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Let’s start “vetting” him. Who knows, Mr. Noble could be another “rogue plumber!” v
Y-not on October 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Sheds a whole new light on neon signs….Will he glow in the dark too?
rich801 on October 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Please get the clip of Tito slapping around Colmes….
deedtrader on October 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Four times here!
carbon_footprint on October 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM
Yes, just like everybody knows that 9 year old boys always tell their dads about the vandalism they commit.
/sarc
Y-not on October 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM
You just can’t make this stuff up.
KBird on October 30, 2008 at 9:59 PM
My signs have been stolen and I feel it is a suppression of my right to express myself.
It is infuriating. I considered wiring a new sign but did not do it.
I know who stole my sign, so I will take my time getting even in some small way. Part of my retribution will be the election of President McCain and Vice President Palin.
winemkr on October 30, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Was this man also an Alaskan State Trooper.
CanadianGuy on October 30, 2008 at 10:00 PM
He was just trying to see how the signs were constructed. Nice try.
vcferlita on October 30, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Love it. Situ use to say, when you go looking for trouble, don’t be surprised when it finds you…
Zorro on October 30, 2008 at 10:01 PM
I thought it was pretty funny to see the spawn of love slave to The One learn about electricity. It was a good lesson for the ‘Reality Based Community’. Not that they’ll learn. I’ll bet this kid has lot’s of scars left over from the “Stove burners are HOT!” lesson that never kicked in.
AUINSC on October 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM
The very best one-liners about this are here, at Ace of Spades viz. “The kid conducted himself admirably, I think.”
andycanuck on October 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM
We used to have electric fence for the cows. It was on my property. I kind of figured anyone who got shocked was trespassing so screw em.
My ex got so tired of mushroom hunters sneaking on the place, that he put a fake head stone at the head of a fake grave, on it he wrote Grave of the Unknown Mushroom Hunter.
We redneck hillbillies can get downright mean about that whole private property thing.
Terrye on October 30, 2008 at 10:03 PM
I think he should have stuck with the usual that he was out target practicing, shooting the bees on the far wall.
pedestrian on October 30, 2008 at 10:04 PM
The kid also had an Obama sign that he was going to slip onto the McCain-Palin sign’s wire stand. It wasn’t “fun” vandalising all the signs in the neighbourhood.
andycanuck on October 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Weak. Was that a 9 volt or something?
Have we learned nothing from mythbusters?!?
lorien1973 on October 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Andrew Noble, get ready to be shocked, is a statistics professor at UNC Chapel Hill. Wrote him a nasty note and followed up by asking his boss for an investigation. A quick look at Open Secrets shows that someone of his last name gave to Dems. As did his boss.
Nothing to see here.
One other thing, it looks like the kid not only trespassed and stole the original sign from its wickets, he was ready to replace the McCain sign with an Obama sign. Now, if his father wasn’t involved, either directly or through admonition, where did the 9 year old get the Obama sign from?
Hate to be a conspiracy theorist on this, but the brown shirts are like terrorist parents. I could get arrested, so I’ll send my kid out to blow up the process.
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:06 PM
A cop can tase his stepson & not get fired, but if you try to use electricity to protect your property, that same cop will be knockin’ on your door.
jgapinoy on October 30, 2008 at 10:06 PM
The boys father needs about 50k volts and then a labotomy
Rovin on October 30, 2008 at 10:07 PM
What idiot sends their 9 year old out to vandalize signs? Tase the parent, please please tase the parent.
Hammerhead on October 30, 2008 at 10:08 PM
The sheriff refused to allow anyone to press charges…other words, don’t mess with other peoples property.
In some parts of the country a little buckshot would have greeted him…the kid was lucky, and so was his dad.
right2bright on October 30, 2008 at 10:08 PM
A libtard in the making. Doesn’t anybody teach their kids about respect for others, and other people’s property. I think he got what he deserved. All of actions have consequences, good and bad. They don’t teach that in libtard (public) school.
Tommy_G on October 30, 2008 at 10:10 PM
I’m less than fastidious in picking up after the dog on lawns displaying the wrong kind of lawn sign. I figure if the residents want to crap on the country, they are open to crap being deposited in their yard!
highhopes on October 30, 2008 at 10:10 PM
That was great! Why didn’t I think of that. I just taped my sign down and I see little finger cuts where people try to grab and run. It’s great.
Note to self, go to the Lowe’s and get a zapper.
HornetSting on October 30, 2008 at 10:11 PM
We got our sign stolen last night while I was at school.
Frankly, I’m surprised it lasted the two and a half weeks it did.
ConservativeLawStudent on October 30, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Where I live, someone put a huge mccain banner on their fance (it’s like 10 feet long). Someone ripped it off the fence (both sides). Also, someone who put a mccain side near the road had that ripped down too.
And Obama canvassers have been through the neighborhood? Coincidence? Of course!
lorien1973 on October 30, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Not that it matters as this incident is small potatoes in the world of Obamanuts “in your face” campaigning, but I basically concur. No 9 year old kid runs home to tell dad about getting hurt while vandalizing property or fooling around. They just don’t. So either the dad was waiting in the car (or on the side walk) or the kid knew his dad would approve.
Y-not on October 30, 2008 at 10:13 PM
1. TiVo
2. The T & V are capitalized for pretty obvious reasons.
3. First time I’ve seen TiVo become Kleenex’d/Scotch Tape-ified.
Stephen M on October 30, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Same kind of tactic used by islamic jihadists. Strap a suicide belt on the nine-year-old and send him/her into battle.
Dems and terrorists, like peanut butter and jelly.
fogw on October 30, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Tito did make me smile.
abinitioadinfinitum on October 30, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Its not the same thing.
aengus on October 30, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Oh yeah, this story was all the buzz.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Very well said
abinitioadinfinitum on October 30, 2008 at 10:21 PM
most certainly it is….the only difference is what parents are encouraging their children to suicide….
Muslims their very lives, Libtards their childrens’ souls as regards respect for the body politic.
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM
In case anyone is interested in having a little HotAir surge (sorry Mark Levin, I stole it), here are the email addresses for both Andy and his boss, Barbara Rimer, the latter of which I challenged to investigate this incident to determine if her employee had any role in the matter and if so, is this man really the right person to be educating young people?
nobel@email.unc.edu
brimer@email.unc.edu
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM
LMAO.
If I wire up, I want to see smoke come out of their ears and their ass thrown across the yard.
HornetSting on October 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Not bad, but I was hoping it’d be a bit more three-stoogish, with the culprit getting zapped flat to the ground, getting back up and doing it again, then running his hands down his face several times and going back for a third try, etc….
FloatingRock on October 30, 2008 at 10:23 PM
The only time I’ve stolen campaign signs was during a Senior outing to TP a Gov Teacher’s house into a winter scene. Now I don’t mean we lightly TP’d the trees, I mean the trees, the house, the grass, it really was looking a lot like Christmas.
We also took every campaign sign in the neighborhood and put them in her lawn. Imagine if croquet wickets bread like rabbits; that’s how it looked.
- The Cat
P.S. The next day she said those that did it might as well confess because she knew which ones of us had done it. We knew this wasn’t true because it was the entire senior class.
MirCat on October 30, 2008 at 10:24 PM
I know I am twisted. I did the same, and I’m a mom of a 9 y.o. boy. Of course, mine knows better than to go onto someone else’s yard to mess with their stuff. He knows he’d have to go apologize and face the wrath of his parents for being disrespectful.
The “I’m going to sue you” response rather than accepting responsibility for his kid’s behavior is proof of the possibility that he’s raising a bully or a pansy or both.
hoosiermama on October 30, 2008 at 10:24 PM
My McCain signs have been stolen or vandalized 15 times – though clearly posted on private property. Meanwhile the Obama signs in my neighborhood remain unmolested.
In the last presidential election my signs were stolen or vandalized 41 times. So much for the Left being either tolerant or mature. When I told a liberal friend about this she basically said “Serves you right”
ksm on October 30, 2008 at 10:25 PM
I’d call that a pretty big difference.
aengus on October 30, 2008 at 10:25 PM
I totally agree.
In fact, I think that making a child steal a campaign sign is WORSE than making him a suicide bomber.
Because he can only explode himself once. And with a limited, say, 30 foot radius, he would only knock out McCain signs on one, maybe two yards.
A kid who is roaming the streets can steal McCain signs along a whole block!
America as we know it is in grave, grave danger here.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 10:29 PM
So….dad teaches* at Carolina? Neighbor’s an electrical engineer? The story could only get sweeter if we learned he got that degree at cross-town rival NC State (where my kid’s in the College of Engineering, BTW).
*Let’s help Dad calculate the statistical probability of Sonny Boy daring to step onto the neighbor’s lawn again – I’d say it’s nearly nothing.
Lurking Vet on October 30, 2008 at 10:29 PM
You’re right, technically. This was non lethal. However, brainwashing a youngster into doing your ill willed bidding because of personal cowardice is the same thing. And corrupting your child with hatred for your opposition is the same thing. And teaching that the end justifies he means is the same thing.
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I hope you understand now how your ‘liberal friend’ thinks…make sure and give this person the keys to your house when you go on vacation, btw.
AUINSC on October 30, 2008 at 10:30 PM
LOL. Bart Simpson doing the angry Curly “MmmMmmMmm!” as Lisa writes in her “Is Bart Simpson smarter than a hamster?” journal – “Hamster, 1 Bart, 0″ after she electrocutes the cheese.
Marcus on October 30, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Both parents send their children to do their dirty work for them. Both parents are too cowardly to commit the act themselves. Both parents are leading their children down the wrong path. Both parents are irresponsible.
Right, no similarities.
fogw on October 30, 2008 at 10:31 PM
no the child is murdering another person’s rightg….exactly the same?
No but in the sense a diesel engine and a gasoline engine are both different they both drive cars…
I notice that the “reality based community” of pro-abortionists allying themselves spiritually with radical islam is a match made in heaven they view their own flesh and blood that makes a successful transition from the birth canal as renewable resources and cannon fodder.
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM
OT I guess.
Re. PA vote:
Allegheny prostitutes overwhelmingly for der Führer.
(I know you don’t want to hear stories from the old days from an old fart, but I actually remember when that would have been shocking. Quaint, huh?)
The tranny poll wasn’t done yet. I’ll get back to you.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Good idea.
If this situation were reversed, democrats would totally investigate this kid to see if he had his license or paid his taxes on time. And that would be totally out of bounds.
Conservatives, on the other hand, would email this kid’s dad’s boss. And that is a completely rational responses to watching an online video of that kids being electrocuted.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM
tell you what champ I am gonna go into Harlem and start screwing with Bambi signs as long as you stand right beside me in a t-shirt that says “FreeSpeech *this*!”
Unilateral a**hattery on the scale the Bambi backers have engaged in this election is gonna come to a sad halt if their methods work BELIEVE me.
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:34 PM
re. prostitutes for Obama
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:34 PM
The brainwashing part is the same but if it doesn’t result in 29 dead, 17 injured then morally it doesn’t rise to the same level of evil. The kid can figure out his own political positions when hes mature enough to vote.
aengus on October 30, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Shocking…………………
Seven Percent Solution on October 30, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Low life cowardly parents…
d1carter on October 30, 2008 at 10:35 PM
1. Thought that was great – up the voltage, though.
2. Prostitutes for Obama? There’s a bumper sticker waiting to be made.
tru2tx on October 30, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Are you a paid Obama troll or just a street tranny kind of Obama troll?
You still smartin’ from Joe smacking your bitch down? Obviously.
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:36 PM
you know I must have missed:
“engage your child in third rate political shennanigans with your aid” in my perusing an old copy of Dr. Spock’s methods on child rearing…..
if libtards can threaten to report me for teaching my elemtary school age child to shoot I think a professor having his child play the part of Ben Franklin can stand some ribbing.
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Didn’t watch the vid, yet. The little thief got doggie electrocuted? What the hell’s wrong with that? Did he die? If his syphilitic Dad doesn’t teach him right from wrong, what’s wrong with dog training?
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Now he knows.
scrubjay on October 30, 2008 at 10:37 PM
McCain/Palin: resistance is futile.
Gaunilon on October 30, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Come to think of it, his father’s a sucky libtard. Didn’t he ever hear of ABORTION? Jeez, a little kid, how disgusting.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM
I’m pretty upset that this poor excuse for a parent has allowed his child to become a lightning rod of attention.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM
I can’t believe the father had the balls to complain. It’s like calling 911 when your dealer rips you off.
Ronnie on October 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM
And the jagged glass bits on the underside are to prevent theft. This kids gonna learn a lot.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM
yup Dad encourages little Timmy to scout the neighborhood studying the aerodynamic differences between the Bambi sign Timmy carries and the McCain signs he gravitates towards studying…..
dad was in a car feeding the kid Bambi signs like Charlie Chaplin and the Kid in the movie the Kid.
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM
True, but kids get their formative moral groundings from their parents, whether their parents have any or not. Somehow I think he lives in the rarified air of Marxist haters, like the Obama family, and will not be a force for good in adulthood. But, sometimes kids view their extremist parents over a lifetime and eschew their vapidity, hatred and move in a completely different direction. Maybe we can ask our statisician friend how often that happens.
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:41 PM
What I do is wet the lawn first, and run a gentle current through the whole thing. Love to see the kids squirming.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:41 PM
The kid
A: Is not an ACDC fan
B: Is just not punk rock enough
C: Doesn’t like him juice
- The Cat
MirCat on October 30, 2008 at 10:41 PM
I don’t know what’s up with you guys. I totally agree with you.
Before this election, a nine year old would never have stolen a campaign sign. Everyone knows that nine year olds never trespass on neighbor’s yards, would never break the rules in any way, etc.
The fact that this one kid tried is clearly an indication of zombie parents forcing Obama’s rule onto the helpless young generation. This kid deserved to be electrocuted. And probably thrown in jail too. Let’s all get his dad fired ASAP.
It will be great once the election is over and little kids go back to behaving 100% of the time.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 10:42 PM
He was sent by his father to switch the signs. It was not a kid’s prank. It was a parent’s child abuse. Wake up.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I’m no psychologist, but I’d like to take this opportunity and just say that I think you sound like a well adjusted, emotionally-healthy human being. Keep up the good work, ace.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I agree e-pirate and thanks for throwing some light on the subject.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Will help him when he gets older and gets tasered for the first time. The guy was doing him a favor.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:44 PM
That’s not Ace, that’s JiangxiDad.
- The Cat
MirCat on October 30, 2008 at 10:45 PM
C’mon. That’s Mr. Ace. We never spoke before.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Bu**-Pirate is like a candle in the dark here.
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:45 PM
e-pirate works for the Obama campaign and he’s only doing his job as instructed by the great community organizer, which is to get in your face. He’s a 20 yr old living in his mother’s basement and jerks off to pictures of male underwear models that come in the department store flyers.
Ignore him. The latest Kohl’s flyer is totally hottt.
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:46 PM
e-pirate, don’t be so negative. I-on the other hand am pretty positively charged about your concern.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Apologies, no disrespect was intended!
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Usually, but I was getting a little down about the election, until the weenie roast.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:46 PM
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Sent my two emails. If nothing else, he’ll have a bunch of deleting to do.
tru2tx on October 30, 2008 at 10:46 PM
When the signs first started disappearing I said to replace those Danger 50,000 Volts signs with McCain/Palin signs. Looks like some people were paying attention. Live and learn.
Coronagold on October 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM
just learning to go with the new flow….
electricity like political activism seems to follow the path of least resistance…..
the pity is the guy couldn’t gimmick a ten ton weight to fall on Dad’s car.
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Riiiight. 9 year old kids take it upon themselves to get politically involved.
Any 9 year old I ever met who is that savvy, are entirely more rational than their adult counterparts. This kid was indoctrinated by his idiotic parents and he got what he deserved. AND his parents lose esteem in the kids eyes for setting him up for a humiliating experience.
csdeven on October 30, 2008 at 10:48 PM
He should turn up the juice and fry the little Obamaton! HA! HA! HA!
RMR on October 30, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Couldn’t resist.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:49 PM
The other thing that concerns me about the video is that child looks a little wired if you ask me. You don’t think he’s juiced do you?
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:49 PM
I feel the need to correct the record here:
- I don’t work for the Obama campaign. I was likely hypotized by his informercial however.
- I realize it was instructed to “get in people’s faces” but I find that posting blog comments is way way more effective
- I live in an apartment with my wife, not a basement
- I generally prefer the Sears catalog
Thank you.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Yes, the piece de la resistance. This is one lucky kid. Seriously. At nine, he’s out of his asshat libtard Dad’s clutches. With any luck, he has a chance of being a fine soldier and citizen.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Ever been to Chapel Hill? It makes Chicago look like potential Republican territory. It don’t get no bluer than The Hill, bud! I have NO DOUBT about that child’s parents’ political persuasions. Having gone to school at Carolina, and having worked with these folks, I also have NO DOUBT that Mommy and Daddy put Sonny Boy up to this prank.
Lurking Vet on October 30, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Nice try.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:51 PM
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