How far would you go to protect your campaign signs???

What's a 9 year-old doing stealing signs? I'm sorry but if my kid was doing this & got a little shock, I'd say that it serves him or her right. I'm an Obama supporter so I can't say that I feel for Turschak but he does have a right to display his campaign sign. I see them all over my west Texas town & they are irritating to me but I'm not going to steal them. I have an Obama/Biden sign but it's in the backyard. Both McCain & Obama signs have gone missing in our town. Also we don't want to offend the neighbors who most likely are McCain supporters. Instead we show our support through bumper stickers on our vehicles. I had to chuckle when I read this story. I'm sure Turschak was saying, enough is enough. Can't say that I blame him.

Your link does not seem to be playing on my computer for some reason. The problem seems to stem from the father. If it was my kid the least of his worries would be a shock from a purloined sign. Seems today parents think their offspring can do no wrong. It takes a village to raise a child? I guess not when the village tries to discipline the errant among us.

He may have gone a bit far. It is just a sign after all. It won't change his political views or vote to have one go missing, or a dozen for that matter. I can see how it may be annoying. But being annoyed is better than dealing with the police. Though the boy may have been found guilty of trespassing.

How far would I personally go? Eh. I'd yell at the kid and have a chat with his mother - but I'm funny that way. I figure it's up to parents to discipline their kids. Video surveillance - cool. Booby traps - not cool.

Well if that was my son I would tell him serves you right for trying to steal the sign and I hope you learned your lesson. THen I would personally take him over to the guys house and make my son tell him that he was sorry. THen I would ground my son for a while. It was his sign, his property and if people would have done the right thing and respect this man's property than no one would have gotten shocked. How is the property owner the bad guy in all this? What happened to responsible parenting?

I don't have signs up in my yard but if I did, I would definitely not put electrical things on it so they would shock someone. While I agree that the boy should not have been on the man's property or touching his sign, this was too extreme. Using electricity, whether he's got a degree in electrical engineering or not, to do this is wrong. I've seen little, and I mean little like 5 or 6, walking with their parents who might run a little ahead of them or into someone's yard. The parents will, for the most part, tell their kids to get out of the yard but what if one of them had touched this sign before the parents could stop them? At the very least the man should have had a warning sign up that said it was electrical. I don't believe in putting anything in my yard that will physically hurt anyone, whether they are kids or adults and no matter how annoying they might be. These signs are a dime a dozen. Just go get another one. Like someone said earlier, it doesn't change your vote. My kids were always brought up, even during Halloween, never to run through anyone's yards. While all the other trick or treaters were doing that, stomping on flowers and such, my kids would walk up the driveway and down the sidewalk to the porch. If it was close to 8 then they might run but always on the sidewalk or driveway....never in the yard. If they went in the yard, I took some candy away from them. That's what I was taught and that's what I taught my kids. It's a matter of respecting other's property. I get that. And if one of my kids had been caught on tape and the man had told us, they would have been punished. But using electricity is asking for trouble. It's dangerous and could actually kill someone if they had something physically wrong with them. I think this man went to far and is taking this election waaay too seriously.

It is obvious the boy's father was saying things in front of the kid that made him think vandalism was O'K in support of his father's political views. Having strong political views is one thing, but encouraging violence or breaking the law in support of them is not.

People should have the freedom to electrocute their private property. I think stuff like this is less about the loss of the actual sign and more about wanting there to be consequences for the people doing stuff like that. What do these idiots expect to accomplish, anyway? Isn't it going to make the victim even MORE against the candidate not on the sign?