MAYNARDSMOM
Cathlete
How many of you will put a political sign in your yard?
Gayle, that's awful. That's really frightening. You'd think you could put a simple, non-inflammatory sign on your lawn without the worry of such things.
I try really hard to give all people the benefit of the doubt, but I agree...some make it darn near impossible.
I fully admit that I tend to be a little on the paranoid side, but I do have a close friend who started experiencing small bits of vandalism to their property (mailbox smashed, garbage strewn, etc) soon after placing a Kerry/Edwards sign in their yard in 2004...it sucks.
I won't because, unfortunately, there is a small sub-section of society that will use an expression of one's political leanings to do nasty things like throw garbage in your yard or...worse yet...throw food laced with rat poison for your pets.
This is also a major reason why I don't have bumper stickers on my car (don't need that keyed).
I just don't have much faith in people sometimes.
The last time we put up a political sign in our front yard was when Gore/Lieberman (Gore/Traitor, that is) ran for president in 2000. We lived in a small town in Alabama, and our neighbor came up to my husband and asked him what he was doing while he was doing it (um, duh, putting a sign up...). Our neighbors didn't talk to us after that.