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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I can’t help it.
There’s a lot of resistance here.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Your welcome……I’m DoodadPro and I approve this message….
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:51 PM
hey any upping of intensity of message requires a change in frequency if posting….erm uh “volts”
sven10077 on October 30, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Ohm my goodness, that kid needs to be grounded.
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 10:53 PM
To live in or as your wife?
- The Cat
P.S. I hear marrying the 2D might become legal in Japan soon.
MirCat on October 30, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Ohm my God, I really feel the static too!
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:54 PM
lol. The kids father says he was looking to see how the sign was put together so he could make his sign the same way. Well kid, it was a tamper proof sign so make sure you include that in your blueprint for your sign ok? Have your daddy pick ya up a nice neon sign transformer at the sign shop.
johnnyU on October 30, 2008 at 10:54 PM
I won’t disagree with that. If the dad encouraged law-breaking then that is very bad.
aengus on October 30, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Baby Moonbat Gets Buzzed….Film at 11:00!
ohiorebel on October 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM
I know watt you mean.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM
-1 -5 and -10 respectively.
- The Cat
MirCat on October 30, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Yep. A liberal stronghold that never even blinked after the Duke LaCrosse kurfluffle, where the good citizens hung those boys out to dry and when it turned out they were innocent, not a whimper of an apology. Just like that douche Murtha. Liberals never apologize. They just roll in like vermin, create destruction and move on to their next targets.
pistolero on October 30, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Ok, I’m never coming back to this thread.
MirCat on October 30, 2008 at 10:56 PM
He did get grounded… when he shocked himself. One has to be the “ground wire” in order to get shocked by electric.
:)
Mcguyver on October 30, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Yeah, the whole idea that the kid went off to a neighbors yard to see how to put up “his” Obama sign rather that just asking his father is what has me amped up. Is that still his current story?
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:57 PM
This seems to be a hot topic.
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Is that still his current story?
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 10:57 PM
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH *pulls what’s left of his hair out*
- The Cat
MirCat on October 30, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Current events.
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 10:59 PM
I’m glad you got it.
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Okay, Okay! I was just having a little fun.
No need to blow a fuse.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:00 PM
damn, two currents in a row. 220?
JiangxiDad on October 30, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Nice try? I don’t get it.
RMR on October 30, 2008 at 11:01 PM
That explains the live discussion. Never mind, I can’t top yours.
*bows to the master*
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 11:02 PM
It was announced this evening that Tyler Hansbrough is injured and out indefinitely. Coincidence? I think not.
Mr. Wednesday Night on October 30, 2008 at 11:06 PM
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 11:06 PM
My mistake. Disregard.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:07 PM
This is OT. Wire you posting this?
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 11:07 PM
You don’t suppose that kid and his Dad are trying to suppress the volt in that neighborhood do you?
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:07 PM
He really switched the subject didn’t he?
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Electrocuted? All I saw was a little shock. You can get worse by scraping your feet across the carpet in the winter.
If you want a rational response, start with rational language. Skip the ridiculous hyperbole.
I’ll agree it’s a shame, though, that the kid got shocked, when it was the parents who almost certainly put him up to it.
theregoestheneighborhood on October 30, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Ohm!
carbon_footprint on October 30, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Some would say revolting.
Apologies to all.
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 11:09 PM
I’m out of my league.
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 11:11 PM
No, you were funny.
Okay, I’m done too.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Good for him! And who the h*ll is the leftist who got a 9-year-old to do his dirty work for him? He should get the media’s “Joe the Plumber” treatment: investigate his entire life, and publicize it.
Paul_in_NJ on October 30, 2008 at 11:13 PM
I’m no electrician but damn I still laughed my butt off!
Yakko77 on October 30, 2008 at 11:13 PM
I don’t post much, but you tend to crack me up. Thanks.
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Whoever started these bad jokes is so grounded.
Come on ‘fess up.
Mcguyver on October 30, 2008 at 11:13 PM
This kid should be charged with something.
profitsbeard on October 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM
It is useless to be a resistor.
Andrew D on October 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Yeah, it is time to pull the plug.
e-pirate on October 30, 2008 at 11:15 PM
;-)
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:15 PM
BTW, this guy works out of my office.
tarheelcon on October 30, 2008 at 11:17 PM
UNC community this does not surprise me at all….it is a FLAMING moonbat freak zone.
What can we do to end tenure?
What an abomination on society.
Having some connections to the Chapel Hill/
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on October 30, 2008 at 11:17 PM
And BTW, Chapel Hill is pretty liberal. But the folks up there at the Medical Center took really good care of my kid so I go easy on them.
College town.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:18 PM
You mean you really know him?
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Just trying to stay current.
Mr. Wednesday Night on October 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM
This all reminds me of the punchline of my favorite scientist joke:
Cut off frog’s last leg, frog goes deaf.
profitsbeard on October 30, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Sizzlin’ response.
RushBaby on October 30, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Too revolting for you?
andycanuck on October 30, 2008 at 11:27 PM
This video is a real joule.
fossten on October 30, 2008 at 11:27 PM
BTW, legal minds out there: can Prof. Nobel be charged with battery for sending his kid out to vandalize signs?
andycanuck on October 30, 2008 at 11:29 PM
That put a hertz on that boy I’ll tell you watt.
Kini on October 30, 2008 at 11:31 PM
In Texas the sign would have been hooked up to a shotgun and the community would sing the praises of the Castle Doctrine!
Tim Burton on October 30, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Who knew there were so many electrical puns? ROTFL
Oh, zoned out on one more thing. You guys really generated a lot of positive feedback.
Power to the people. Even the little ones.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Yes, but not well since he is usually working off site.
tarheelcon on October 30, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Well I guess that puts me just South of you at Bragg. Spent a lot of time at UNC with my daughter for a transplant. What a wonderful Medical Center.
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Zing
RushBaby on October 30, 2008 at 11:50 PM
With any luck, that “shock” sterilized this little Libtard skull-full-o-mush-in-the-making, before he has a chance to pollute the world with his moonbat offspring.
FiveWays on October 30, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Bless you. My prayers just got a little longer.
Laura in Maryland on October 30, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Oh, she’s fine now. She just got married two weeks ago. Left this morning with her hubby to Ft. Sill.
No worries here, thanks though!
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:59 PM
And everyone knows that nine-year-old boys often try to steal signs promoting presidential candidates while hold a banner of the opposing candidate in their hot little hands. Out of the blue does this type of caper often sprout up in their little nine-year-old minds! Because nine-year-old boys would rather be doing that sort of thing than, say, dropping a lizard down the back of a female classmate’s dress or something.
Sheesh.
baldilocks on October 30, 2008 at 11:59 PM
Thats it!
We need more of that!
YES!
TheSitRep on October 31, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Blessed you are indeed! Glad to hear it.
Laura in Maryland on October 31, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Those children are very sophisticated up that way! No time for lizards when there’s politics a-foot.
hawkdriver on October 31, 2008 at 12:03 AM
What a shocking story. Was that kid wearing an AC/DC shirt?
I hope the sign owner isn’t charged, but that kid needs to be grounded. I bet his dad zapped off a not so positive yet energetic email to discuss his negative situation with someone in charge. Alternatively, it might make sense for us to send a battery of messages to local law enforcement voicing our support for the sign owner.
I am revolted by the fact that the sign owner had to resort to such a well-grounded solution to protect his signage. Maybe I’ll send a few Benjamin Franklins to the man to cover his potential legal costs. I wonder if he is current with his taxes, and to what capacity he will have to resist the press.
I could go on, but I’ve had a long Faraday. ;-)
cannonball on October 31, 2008 at 12:05 AM
…a few Benjamin Franklins…
Phenomenal! How did we miss that one? lol
hawkdriver on October 31, 2008 at 12:07 AM
Didn’t you see the episode where the Beav, Lumpy, and Whitey went out and tried to tear down Dewey’s signs. That happened all the time.
Laura in Maryland on October 31, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Pun-o-rama!
baldilocks on October 31, 2008 at 12:10 AM
I hope the kid shows re-Morse for the violations of the codes he broke.
profitsbeard on October 31, 2008 at 12:13 AM
Thank you all that this once threadjacked thread got back on track. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good joke and properly placed pun as much as the next guy, but we need to be cautious that we don’t take the bait of an obamabot who has been commissioned to distract his opponents. Especially in this late hour.
Focus, people. It’s time to man battle stations, make calls, knock on doors. Electricty jokes are all well and good in the proper context, but this ain’t the time.
This trojan horse must not only be left outside the gate, it must be burned with the the hidden soldiers inside it.
Don’t let yourselves have the depressing feeling that you could have done more after Obama is elected, but now we’re marching off to the reeducation camps. You know. The camps that Ayers described and described in detail that some recalcritrants will need to be exterminated.
This ain’t no freakin’ game!!
pistolero on October 31, 2008 at 12:14 AM
You guys sure are generating a lot of posts over this story. Let’s not get hysteresis, folks.
(best I could do — you took all the good puns!)
Y-not on October 31, 2008 at 12:14 AM
Manning the phones on Saturday in Fayetteville.
hawkdriver on October 31, 2008 at 12:16 AM
An electrifying call!
Lighten up.
profitsbeard on October 31, 2008 at 12:17 AM
+1
Y-not on October 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM
I’ll lighten up on Wednesday, if I’m not furiously divesting my assets and trying to navigate the new, unfriendly landscape. In the meantime, I’m sporting a chronic migraine, drinking a bit more than I should, commenting a bit more than I should and thinking that generally, outside of some of the good friends here, the country has gone bug shi’ite, moon barking mad.
pistolero on October 31, 2008 at 12:23 AM
ok. i’m lightened up. this is hilarious and if you’ve seen if before, well, it’s still hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6H0i1RAdHk
pistolero on October 31, 2008 at 12:28 AM
the kid should be waterboarded
custer on October 31, 2008 at 12:34 AM
Yep, there was a real surge in comments. Okay, make it stop!
Laura in Maryland on October 31, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Dude, I was just about to say “The kid should be waterboarded”.
Weird…
Really, he should be though.
Claypigeon on October 31, 2008 at 12:40 AM
DON’T TASE ME BRO!!!!!
FiveWays on October 31, 2008 at 12:46 AM
We all got really charged up when this video provided a flash of inspiration!
e-pirate on October 31, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Yeah, if the sign was in my house.
Johan Klaus on October 31, 2008 at 12:50 AM
This urchin was just conducting a political pole.
The results were galvanizing.
profitsbeard on October 31, 2008 at 1:02 AM
Have a juice-box.
baldilocks on October 31, 2008 at 1:09 AM
Couldn’t fight the erg to polarize the neighborhood.
viking01 on October 31, 2008 at 1:16 AM
Oh, she’s fine now. She just got married two weeks ago. Left this morning with her hubby to Ft. Sill.
No worries here, thanks though!
hawkdriver on October 30, 2008 at 11:59 PM
Fine? FINE??? Have you ever been to Ft. Sill? Or Oklahoma?
Just kidding…BTW, Tulsa is gonna lose Saturday…
Gohawgs on October 31, 2008 at 1:24 AM
Ohhhh, and I bet that kid could use a Jolt cola about now…
Gohawgs on October 31, 2008 at 1:31 AM
Whats is a juice-box?
aengus on October 31, 2008 at 1:31 AM
Naturally, the sign thief will be sent to circuit court.
viking01 on October 31, 2008 at 1:31 AM
Yes, the Obamic terrorists stole my lawn sign also..
I put new ones up the next day though.
SaintOlaf on October 31, 2008 at 1:46 AM
Now, why couldn’t the kid pee on the sign like a normal liberal would?
He’d kill two birds with one stone. He’d learn about electrical currents, and he’d prepare himself for his future as one of the neutered castrati.
Black Adam on October 31, 2008 at 5:45 AM
up the voltage!
grapeknutz on October 31, 2008 at 6:06 AM
You guys think this kid might end up being chastened? My money is on Mr. Turschak finding his house burned down in a Halloween “accident”.
Any opposition to The One must be dealt with severely.
eeyore on October 31, 2008 at 7:03 AM
well that’s what happens to enlighten liberals
grapeknutz on October 31, 2008 at 7:22 AM
Winner.
BacaDog on October 31, 2008 at 7:38 AM
I have to do this to my signs. :-)
JeffinSac on October 31, 2008 at 7:57 AM
This guy read my mind. I actually thopught of doing this the other day but it was just a thought. Heh, great minds think alike I guess.
Geronimo on October 31, 2008 at 8:54 AM
I slather the sign frames with Tree Tanglefoot.
Non-lethal, non-shocking and guaranf*ckinteed to ruin the remainder of your day and whatever you touch after you realize the sign is now stuck to you and there’s some real damn sticky sh*t all over your person.
bloviator on October 31, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Clearly not enough voltage going through the sign
Vashta.Nerada on October 31, 2008 at 9:35 AM
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