Yard sign

[larwdem]

I put my Harris yard sign out today, So I taped rose branches with thorns all around the sign. Hopefully if they try to steal it they will get a few pickers .

[niyad]

1. Great idea!

[MiHale]

2. If they go low...you went rose up! 👍

[BOSSHOG]

4. IF they go low?

We can count on it My Friend

[1monster]

3. You should try wild blackberry brambles: those thorns are

exceedingly sharp, tiny, and painful. And incredibly hard to get out.

[homegirl]

15. Adorn your sign

with poison ivy or poison oak trim.

[peppertree]

24. Ha! Reminds of that scene in 'The Gods Must be Crazy' with the thorny tree

The Watape (pronounced 'wait-a-bit') tree.

[yorkster]

5. Good idea - our street in southern Maine had

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several Harris Walz signs disappear yesterday. Maybe game cams could be next...


Update just heard that over 400 signs were
stolen in town.

[MLAA]

13. Odds are out of 400 there should be a few ring cameras.

[yorkster]

16. That would be damn good.

Pretty creepy. There might also be a "ring"
of perps who carried this out. Some signs were on private property, some on public.
Different penalties for each.
400 is a helluva lot of signs..

[MLAA]

17. Do you think the police will investigate?

[yorkster]

19. They have been notified. I sure hope they

investigate. Now I'm wondering about the surrounding towns. Will check in with Maine news later.
Damn thugs. sigh..

[central scrutinizer]

6. Ooh, I know where there are large patches

Of poison oak.

[Paper Roses]

11. Poison Ivy works too, great idea

[Bayard]

7. I'm thinking....

Coat the sign with a layer of baby oil laced with cayenne pepper.

[Iggo]

8. Booby traps are a bad idea. (n/t)

[soldierant]

12. With rose branches, especially if they include blooms,

I think a good defense would be "I was just adding American Beautyroses for decoration and emphasis. Can I help it if [vandal] is not smart enough to know that roses have thorns?"

[onethatcares]

20. ? ......that's not a booby trap

it's a way of keeping the deer from eating the signs. Deer hate the taste of ghost pepper extract too from what I've been told.

[oasis]

9. Beware of Pricks or pricks beware.

[Warpy]

10. I'd be tempted to put mine in some poison ivy

but if I lived in a place that had a place to put one, I"d probably just use my capsaicin recipe guaranteed to make a sign thief rethink his career in vandalism the next time he took a leak.

[kairos12]

14. Good idea.

Pricks for pricks.

[Jack Valentino]

18. If you happen to have a large dog, some crap stragically placed around the sign

would make for some messed up shows, and shit tracked into the vehicle if they use one....

but I like the rose branches.

[Beachnutt]

21. How about tying it to a helium balloon

and fly it high above your house ?
The only way for them to remove it would be to shoot it down..
Or just fly a big helium balloon with Harris/Walz on it.

[appleannie1]

22. You should spray it with a light mist of oil and sprinkle itching powder on it too.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

23. Hairspray and some gold glitter

Strippers prefer gold glitter because of the spotlights, so I have been told. Very fine grade glitter. Wives will wonder where he went last night when he went sign hunting. Cheap dollar tree perfume, too.

"I was making my sign more noticeable" is a creditable defense.