How about torching them with a cheerful mixture of propellants? No malice just good fun. :3eye:

Is arson a crime of malice? Why go for the sign when there's a combustable building behind the sign.

In your new neighborhood what you have to find a way to protect is your registration sticker.

They cut them off. With tin snips.

This weeks tally (from Wednesday, regular route home from work. During the big rainstorm. The one with the flooding, so it was a bit of a challenge to keep count)

Bush 19, Kerry 8

I watched the debate with a friend, so I got to count signs on the way to her place, which is also in Montgomery County.

Bush 10, Kerry 3. Her neighborhood also has a number of similarly styled signs that scream "SLOW DOWN" in black on a bright yellow background. Is this some type of PSA campaign or something?

The state could easily help solve this problem by moving the keystone and putting the sticker there.

Then they'd just steal the whole damn plate.

And the state would lose the extra bucks from vanity plate and specialty plate sales.

The current placement of the registration sticker allows it to be easily visible to the fuzz when the sneak up on you, keeps the state from having to reissue the metal plates every year (I remember growing up in Illinois, where they DID send you a new plate every year. And a matching keychain so you'd be able to find your plate number when they called you on the PA in the grocery store to tell you your lights were on).

Also, the corner placement (which is now static rather than odd-year-left, even-year right, as was the case on the old blue on yellow series plates, although I have seen people who still try to paste the stickers in the 'correct' corners) makes it possible for you to have a license plate frame that covers the sticker fully or partially, and gives cops a reason other than "faulty taillight" to pull you over when they need to write some citations for revenue generation.

DC Registration stickers go in the front windshield. On the plate is a sticker that says something like "see window".

Probably because DC's primary vehicular law enforcement branch is parking enforcement, not highway patrol.

The afternoon after the debate I saw a new Bush inc. sign going up down the road. Very angry/defiant looking guy with a weed whacker was trying to make it more visible... I know Kerry beat him pretty soundly but I assume living where we do he can't be taking much heat for supporting Bush. Bush signs seem to be sprouting faster than Kerry at the moment.

Not necessarily...might take too long to pull the plate off. Missouri has gone this route with the stickers, and it seems to have helped.

For the vanity plates, you could move the sticker to a place where it is more difficult to remove, such as along the top, away from the corners. Although, the sticker might have to be shrunk for that to work.

The inside window sticker wasn't a bad idea, really. The problem was that they enacted the program only in the City/County of Philadelphia, which was incredibly--INCREDIBLY--stupid. It made us easy prey for cops outside the city.

UPDATE: At least one Kerry sign on my street has been stolen. No Bush signs have sprouted yet.

Signs in a 2nd swing stsate
 

Colorado seems more excited about local candidates than presidential ones. In a drive across town yesterday I counted 10 signs for Michael Merrifield a local democrat running for the State Legislature, 3 for Kerry, none for Bush, a handed painted sign advising of a garage sale, 3 "For Rent" signs, and one noting that the house was being remodeled by XYZ company. We don't seem to have any driveway sealcoating signs. What's that?

Oh, yeah, in Colorado we just forge those little car registration stickers. All you need is a scanner and a computer. ;)

In the extremely Kerry-friendly District of Columbia, a "ReDefeat Bush" sign was defaced with silly string and a Bush sticker.

Silly string and a Bush sticker. *Insert joke here*

Swing state MN report- from the liberal cities... On my liberal hotbed University commute: 11 Kerry lawn signs, 1 Bush.
In the bumper sticker/button/tshirt category- Kerry by a landslide. Lots of students with Kerry buttons on backpacks. some "November 2" t shirts popping up.
I did have the Kerry sticker on my bike torn off two weeks ago. But its back!

There is a definite suburban-urban divide in MN. But there is also still an independent streak The rural folks here have some tradition of being radically liberal- DFL -Farm-Labor. and are as likely to read news as attend church meetings.

Report from the Springsteen/Fogerty/REM/Brighteyes concert, (I didnt go, tickets were $75 and I had to work) but I'm told that big fun was had- I would have loved to see Fogerty with Springsteen. Neil Young stopped by too.

My family's roots are Minnesota and Wisconsin - It's been distressing watching them on <a href="http://www.electoral-vote.com/">electoral-vote.com</a>, but I'm confident they'll pull through in the end.