9-year-old kid zapped by electrified campaign sign

[Guest GUTTERbOY]

http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/3857593/

...The 9-year-old boy got a shock Monday from a campaign sign that a neighbor had hooked up to the power source for an electric pet fence.

The neighbor, Shawn Turschak, said he was tired of people stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard, so he rigged two signs as booby traps.

"I was just furious," he said...

There's even surveillance video!

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[Guest Verbal Kint]

The concept is pretty awesome... but that definitely needs a bigger electrical source, to fully achieve awesomeness.

[Guest tnjimbob]

If that kid didn't walk away with a perm, then it needs more power!

[chipperi]

shoulda put a hot pink dye bomb near by too!!

[saintsfanbrian]

Ah, but he will be sued for causing pain and suffering to the child.

[Guest Jcochran88]

Ah, but he will be sued for causing pain and suffering to the child.

yeah but it was probably worth it.

[TGO David]

Little bastard.

[Angus]

Obviously no pee stain, so he needs more juice....lil bastard

[NuTcAsE]

Ah, but he will be sued for causing pain and suffering to the child.

He was holding an obama sign, what more proof would one need to charge his parents for child abuse, neglect, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, reckless endangerment, enslavement.......

[bubbiesdad]

[Guest Verbal Kint]

CNN video and coverage:

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[Guest nj.piney]

anyone think a 9 year old is bright enough to decide to swap out a mccain sign for an obama sign on his own ?

[Guest Dean_JC78]

Zap the little punk and his dad too! The kid needs to learn to respect private property.

[Mark@Sea]

Nope. At that age I wasn't thinking about politics.

[Shima]

I think it would have been fun to hide in the bushes and shoot him with a pellet gun. That way, no one would know what happened, but the kid would sure learn a lesson.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

I think it would have been fun to hide in the bushes and shoot him with a pellet gun. That way, no one would know what happened, but the kid would sure learn a lesson.

bnagashima's 2009 costume is going to consist of a ghillie suit and face paint.

[Almond27]

He should dig a big hole deep enough for a person to fit and cover it with grass leaves etc. so then they would hopefully break a leg when trying to steal his signs

[Fallguy]

Threads merged and cleaned

[TripleDigitRide]

That was great! The little snot-nosed brat deserved it.

[Guest c_o_jones]

The 9 year old kid's father happens to be a professor at UNC.

So I think we all know where this foolish idea probably originated.

Libtard of the week.

Andrew B. Nobel

[Guest superdrew4000]

oooh, little johnny knowns better than to steal a sign... yeah right lady. Proof's in the puddin', and the video ain't tellin' no lies.

[Guest GUTTERbOY]

The 9 year old kid's father happens to be a professor at UNC.

So I think we all know where this foolish idea probably originated.

Libtard of the week.

Andrew B. Nobel

Yeah, Chapel Hill in general tends to be a pretty leftward-leaning community.