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This video is magical: “Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard. Turschak, with a degree in electrical engineering, hooked up a third sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday and also put up a surveillance camera.” Look at the little Obama kid get ZAPPED like a ho and then run home to his father, Joe Biden. Ha ha! DAMN KIDS. [AP, YouTube]
Someone with a degree is voting for McCain?
…not that I should be speaking, because I have already stolen a couple bumper stickers and a handful of yard signs already; but I’m fairly sure that is illegal.
Shocking!
Hey, someone had to say it.
…a little electro-shock therapy hasn’t hurt anyone; I mean look how balanced WALNUTS! turned out.
Small children are in the tank!
McCain’s pick as Secretary of Homeland Security
Oh, man. Oh MAN. I’m torn between my hatred of assholes and my hatred of snotty children.
Not surprised to see that Mr. Wilson is a McCain fan.
that’s a crime. look it up.
Mixed emotions for me. I see no harm in giving a little jolt to a budding kleptomaniac. But on the other hand, anyone with a McCain-Palin sign is a good candidate for shock therapy!
Guess he can’t ever be a VP candidate (see Eagleton).
Those North Carolinians are getting so fancy. It’s having that Research Triangle and everything. Whatever happened to just shooting people? And what about the good old Claymore mine? If you want to send a message, there’s nothing like a Claymore.
This is also McCain’s secret plan to catch bin Laden.
Questionably OT (but it is shocking, funny, and involves McCain supporters):
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/right-wing-freak-out
(From Crooks and Liars. This gist is that some Scumbag claims that poor people are poor because they are simply immoral (the contrapositive of the protestant work ethic?) — oh, and Limbaugh is a slowly simmering cuntburger.)
This kid will grow up hating teh republicans.
This is how an E.E. nerd says “Get off my lawn!”
What are these people crying about being illegal? Property theft or electrifying your property? Are electric fences illegal, too?
I hate McCain as much as anyone else here, but this fucking kid got what he deserved.
Free electro-convulsive therapy treatment! There will be a line of weirdos down the block, if I know Chapel Hill.
A hangman’s noose trap would have been so much better.
Calm down, peeples! I always litter my lawn with the corpses of small children on Halloween. Little jerks.
The bitterz will not go gently into that good night.
Yeah, its illegal. But it would take a real asshole to try to prosecute the guy for it.
[/father who really didn't have to spank his kids very much, because they learned quick, and at an early age, by god.]
“Those North Carolinians are getting so fancy.”
Sort of. Living near Chapel Hill I can say the owners were, in all likelihood, hoping for some yard kill. Which is kind of like road kill, only… well, in your yard.
This reminds me of my middle school days of yore, when I electioneered for a republican candidate for state senate(who won, to my eventual shame), and concurrently operated a paper route. The brightest and most-bountiful targets from my bike were the large yellow yard signs belonging to the democratic challenger. I seriously kept a tally of the number of casualties.
This video had potential to be the most epic video of this campaign and it turned out to be a disappointment. So much so, I want to beat the children I don’t have yet (that I know of).
WWJGD: I think the legal term is attractive nuisance. And no, I’m not talking about Caribou Barbie.
Those hard-core Marxists in Chapel Hill are even teaching their children to hate America. (but I’d be kinda po’d too). Here, I don’t think they’d steal Obama signs, I think they’d use them for target practice.
He’s Republican; shouldn’t he be trying to lure the kid in to his home? Ur doin it rong!
This kid should have taken a more passive-aggressive tack. Paintball Gun?
If this guy really meant it, he’d've had JtP set up a water effect to jump up the shock factor.
These Johntards…no imagination….
no witty comment here. that is just too damn cute, i hope my kids turn out that bad-ass.
The next video will be of that kid bringing his friends back to show them how the hair on the back of his neck stands on end when he touches the McCain sign.
As much as I cringe at the sight of every McCain/Palin sign…you got the right to say what ya want to say ’round these parts. Sorry, no snark, just a defense of the Constitution. It applies to everybody…even assholes.
The shock that I’m waiting for is some Friday surprise. What’s it going to be Wonketteers?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2008/10/freaky-friday-r.html
wait, and i don’t mean to go all zapruder film on this kid here, but isn’t he actually not stealing anything, and is instead trying to instaqll an obama sign? (now, mccain’s lawyer might say that maybe he’s trying to replace the mccain sign the kid stole earlier, but careful observers see no evidence of that.) so, he got zapped, like a dog, which, btw, hurts, for trying to give the lonely electrical engineering (redundant) guy a little present. pathetic. he should be thrown in jail alongisde ashley todd.
Scarab: win
I once modified a yardsign so it had tacks sticking out the top of it. For some reason, the campaign wouldn’t let me put it out. Something about “children” and “liability.”
Now I wish I’d made the tacks electrified.
sealhugger: If this were a just world, the next video would actually be of the kid bringing his friends from the local MS-13 chapter to mess up Mr. Electro’s circuits. “Hey Mister. Let me introduce you to Manuel the Mara Capo.”
PolicyWhore: I agree. Yet another prime opportunity wasted by the republicans. Weak shock to hand = uninspired a little sad, like the McCain campaign itself.
Two comments:
One - guess whose house is getting TP’d tonight!
Second - Damn! don’t they teach those kids to read the bright yellow signs with the live voltage lightning bolt symbols. (Oh sorry. It’s North Carolina. No literacy or dental care. Gotcha.)
nosnikreplliw: So is criminal trespass.
Big surprise. McCain has the You Goddamn Kids Better Stay Off My Lawn vote.
You’re responsible for whatever trap you set up (spring gun, pit trap, etc.) and this guy either set it and forgot it, or laid in wait to shock the kid. Now maybe fair game if it’s some grown up stoner, but if he saw it was a kid and hit the button, well, that’s just a whole nother level of horrible. You have to be really careful what you define as harmless. If the kid had a heart condition or was an epileptic, it coulda really hurt him, even low voltage.
My grandfather did this to his sister when they were kids, and she developed a pathological hatred of him that lasted her entire life.
I just watched the interview with the homeowner on CNN. In terms of general intellect and creativity it looks like a pretty even match up. The dude obviously has a shit ton of cash but the kid’s probably got the advantage in idle time and the support of the local peasants. My advice to the kid is to take Saturday to plan your next moves, form alliances with middle school kids who have access to matches and beer, strike on Sunday when the douche bag is attending a long conditioning session at the mega church and use a proxy server when you post your antics on the internets. And listen kid, this is important - wear a fucking mask!
Scarab: Mad props!
Advocatus_Diaboli: Thanks, I forgot what the term was for it. After some lolwikiresearch, that whole legal idea is bullshit and doubly so when applied here. The sign does not attract the kid and he clearly has another sign in his hand. He was attempting vandalism which is a crime and in this great country means the property owner is still liable for some fucking reason.
Fuck America, I’m gonna find an island and blog with sand.
i’m sure that little turd’s related to the “don’t taze me bro” dillweed.
nurple: The fact that he video taped it brings it to a whole other level. The Nazis didn’t even use video tape.
McCain voters like it when little boys touch their stick.
Fly-over Correspondent: He wasn’t there taping it. The tivo bar at the bottom looks like he just rigged a camera to a DVR and recorded hours of footage. It was a basic security camera setup.
so, I stumbled on this blog: http://www.thesarahpalinblog.com/ and it is fucking hilarious.
Are the Youtube commenters really putting the kid’s father’s email on that shitbucket of a forum?
Can we build a similar (but actually deadly) electrified trap for youtube commenters?
1. I live in Chapel Hill’s radical neighbor, Carrboro.
2. People here would be the kind of people to have politically interested nine-year-olds. Typical.
3. If anyone finds out where this guy lives, I’ll go put a flaming bag of shit on his porch if you’d like. Pay me, and I’ll rig it to an electrical wiring system.
larz: Yes, but only because he got the chance to torture the shit out of little punk-ass 9 year olds….
Selling you vote is illegal, but no one said anything about bartering for it.
These days, people are hyper-concerned over the welfare of children, not a bad thing, and I think this guy really should get out in front and apologize. I can’t imagine Nancy Grace not throwing salt in his eyes over this.
That was pretty awesome, but think of how effective an electric fence combined with a shit moat would have been.
Five and a half years of that and the kid will know what its like to be John McCain. Then he’ll know better than to steal crazy people’s signs that were given out for free.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Young RP McMurphy will still not (cannot) vote, being only a stalking horse of his parents’ dark african safari dream….he tosses in bed at night sucking on a stinging finger…wonders about adults and their mephistophelian “elections”…. a nader electric blanket? to warm the cockles?…it is anyone’s guess…..
While I am totally in favor of torturing children for fun, this is just dumb. He has criminal liability and, potentially much worse, civil liability. I know plenty of lawyers who would love to put a little kid on the stand to talk about how they don’t trust adults any more since they were shocked by this bad man….and electrical engineer who *should have known better”. Funny…but very, very dumb.
Outstando: Hey, you kids! Stay off my electric fence!
…mind you, many years ago a friend and I built a “Lie Detector” and brought it to school. basically just a 700 volt (very low amp) lithium ion battery with a scissor switch, a LED, two copper pads and a circuit board not attached to anything. The first time you clicked the switch (during the demo) it did not close the circuit. The second time (after telling your “friend” to lick their fingers to make a better contact), it closed and ran 700 volts up one arm and down the other.
It would make your arms numb from fingers to elbows. My son(s) would, undoubtedly, be arrested and expelled were they to do anything so dumb. It was fun at the time. I am very pleased we did not kill any friends…in our defense, the one friend we had who had already had one open heart operation we did not let try it. We did *a lot* of stupid things…
I am so pleased not to be in jail…
Hold on a minute…someone in Chapel Hill has McCain signs in their yard??!!??
Wow, I hope someone defecates on his front lawn. Take that, Mr. Wilson.
Another Triangle NC resident, who is more of a techie, had someone stealing his Obama sign. His solution? A streaming web cam.
article at mync
Conservatives try to physically harm you if you try to steal your sign. Liberals just want proof you did it.
I guess I have to be more careful about the McCain signs I’ve been peeing on.
As much as I dislike this smug Republican asshole, I have to go with the ‘kid got what was coming to him’ side. Might have even done him a favor - in most cases touching the wire marked ‘Electrified - Don’t Touch’ takes you out of the gene pool permanently.
nurple: It didn’t hurt him, so no foul. You can’t set dangerous traps on your property, but low-voltage zapping that requires you to commit trespassing and attempted theft is OK. He could claim he was tired of dogs peeing on it.
I’m not sure about NC, but in Georgia, you can’t claim “pain and suffering” unless you had some actual, physical injury that LED to the pain and suffering. An owey from an electric fence (which doesn’t leave a mark; I got zapped several times as a child) ain’t no tort.
Mean thing to do, but screw that little kid and screw his parents 20 times worse; he learned a valuable lesson there.
Theta: Sounds like a game changer.
He should have either (A) upped the amperage, so as to fry the little terrorist, or (b)planted some Bounding Betty antipersonnel mines under the lawn.
Or maybe (c)wired up some claymores in the shubbery, set to cut the kid in half about waist level.
The Price of Liberty Is Eternal Vigilance!
JadedDIssonance: As a sexy bitch, I have to say that Australian hag is talking out her ass. I’ve spent less than $50 on clothes in the last 3 years (a shout out to St. Vinny’s for the stylish threads). I don’t wear makeup (and my boyfriend still can’t manage to keep his hands off me). Haven’t had a hair cut in 15 years and I don’t wear any bling. Maybe I’m just lucky being able to get my needs (money, power, sex) fulfilled on a shoestring, but I just don’t think it’s that tough. Besides it leaves me enough money to feed my adopted herd of dogs and cats and pot-bellied pig. So a supersized FUCK YOU to those women who attempt to justify the NECCESSITY of spending more than my annual income on face spackle and fuckme pumps. It’s one thing if you WANT to - just don’t bullshit me that you HAVE to.
“The problem with you, mister, is that you don’ like no children.”
“No madam, you’re wrong. I DO like no children.”
— James Thurber
Ohhh, they start so young. Electrifying signs, I mean…
The kid should come back at night and pee all over his signs….just a thought.
Today we are all shocked little boys.
I’m sure the douche bag who dreamed this up just wanted to electrify the electorate…
That little fucker! serves him right, do it at night!
So why did he try to steal a stick instead of the actual McCain sign?
not only that but he is a fraud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF-HEd6XnA “
This says more about the parents than about the little boy.