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I am sitting in a 7-11 parking lot on Jericho Turnpike sipping some fresh brew when a minivan with three people parks near the curb next to the parking lot.
Two young girls in their mid teens pop out and run across three lanes to the center divider where they remove about a half dozen political signs that were placed there. I could not see who the signs were touting.
Squealing with joy the girls remove the signs and run back to the man in the minivan. The van speeds off as if it were a getaway car in a bank robbery.
Should this man be proud of himself for teaching these girls how to commit larceny and how to show contempt for our political system?
My beef has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with a parent teaching children how to be thieving disrespectful citizens. I wish I could have caught his license plate because I would have reported the theft to the police and acted as a witness if required.
I'll tell ya, I have had it up to here with adults in today's society. Many of you complain about the lack of respect displayed by our youth.
I do not agree with theft or bad parenting, however, yeah you don't really know the circumstances of the signs. Most are illegal as the previous poster said. Maybe that man is an off-duty cop and was instructed to remove the signs by the police department. I mean I think without completely knowing the facts about them and the signs and what-not, I don't think you can really judge the situation.
Maybe that man is an off-duty cop and was instructed to remove the signs by the police department.
lol... what? really?
"ok officer... here's your next assignment, on your day off, go around collecting illegal signs with your daughters... oh and make sure they run across traffic lanes to get them"
You don't know the circumstances of the sign removal. Political signs have to be registered and each sign has to have printed on it who paid for it. In this political environment there are many groups that are printing signs, putting them up and not registering or telling who paid for them. The process of having one campaign identify and complain about the illegal signs is long and nothing really gets done in time. “In time” being defined as "before election day." If a sign is "illegal" i.e., has no markings on it that it was registered and who paid for it, it is quite within any ones right to take it down. So, in fact that "father" might not have been teaching his kids to steal. He might have been sent out by one of the legitimate campaigns to take down the illegal signs. In that case, this parent was teaching his kids to get involved; to not just throw up their hands and say, "There's nothing I can do". This parent might have been teaching his kids to do the right thing. OTOH, he might have been removing legitimate signs because he was on the "other side". In that case, he was doing something illegal. Again, you can't really know.
I have to agree, if the signs were on public property, then removing illegal signs is not stealing. If they were on private property then it would be theft. Allowing children to run across traffic lanes to remove them is criminally idiotic however.
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