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Don’t Steal My Signs
A perspective from Dale Hodson
Note To Sign Thieves in Chapel Hill:
I can frequently be found near the traffic circle at Weaver Dairy and Sage Roads, here in Chapel Hill, where I watch over my signs.
Some Pro Tips for anyone attempting to steal my property:
1 – If you try to steal my property, I will video you and you’ll be on YouTube
2 – I will chase you if you’re stealing my property
3 – I will file a police report with video evidence of you stealing
4 – You will get a knock on your door and be arrested or summoned by the police
5 – You will go to court and be found guilty
6 – You will have a criminal record in North Carolina
7 – When you apply for a job or credit, your criminal record will be discovered
8 – You will have a much more difficult life than if you didn’t steal
So, you get the message: Don’t Steal People’s Stuff.
Of the two times someone has stolen my property at the traffic circle, I have one conviction and a second criminal case in progress, which I expect will result in another criminal conviction.
Stealing people’s stuff, even though you think “it’s just a sign,” will get you a criminal conviction and a criminal record, which will follow you FOREVER.
If you disagree with my various signs near the traffic circle, then you can “protest” by simply putting up your own signs. Or, if you’re a rational adult, you can calmly walk over to me and we can have a calm discussion.
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What a sad and lonely person you must be.
“…if you’re a rational adult, you can calmly walk over to me and we can have a calm discussion.”
“Calm discussion”? Why would any rational adult want to converse with you, sir? Your Viewpoints post screams ‘irrational’. Todd is right. You’re clearly a sad and lonely person who spends an inordinate amount of time and energy preoccupied with signs while looking to provoke those who disagree with you. Is this a hobby? Have you no better way of spending your time? Hopefully you’re not bothering unsuspecting East CH High School students who may be walking by that location and filming them without permission. You, yourself, could use some “Pro Tips”……in the form of high quality psychotherapy, and the sooner the better.
Thanks to David and Todd, I’ll be putting up even MORE signs at that traffic circle in the next few days. They’ll all be Trump signs. Please drive past the traffic circle and see all the new Trump signs you’ve inspired me to place!
I don’t care for your signs, or anyone else’s. They’re all unsightly in my book but stealing legally placed signs is wrong. I’m libertarian and neither party is much interested in individual freedom or free markets. IMO, the Democratic party used to be the problem. Now both major parties have gone off the deep end, although for different reasons. Their presidential candidates are just awful, weak leaders, servile to billionaires and dark money.