Metro Briefs: Sign wars – who is the dark side?
Sign wars – who is the dark side? Thievery, toilet paper, shaving cream and petty crime are all things associated with this time of the year, but this year it has more to do with election politics than Halloween. There has been a rash of theft and destruction of political signs in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, according to The Washington Post, including everything from the candidates’ names being written in shaving cream on people’s cars to torn or torched signs. Sign stealing is usually done in the middle of the night. One Republican volunteer was putting signs up in Prince William County when she saw a woman in a car pull over to the side of the road and grab two Bush-Cheney signs out of the ground, The Post reported. The 66-year-old volunteer ran after her, grabbed the signs back and took down the sign stealer’s license plate number. The woman in the car tried to explain to the volunteer that she “needed [the signs]” as if she were a Republican booster. Though this confrontation didn
