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Campaign sign destruction on Spring Street

This election season is getting pretty exciting for sure. Nationally, the country seems split between a change of leadership in the White House and locally, deja vu is starting to take hold as if it was the year 2000 all over again.

There’s no doubt that political opinions are becoming heated. Take for example, one couple’s recent troubles with their Obama/Biden yard sign on Spring Street right here in Fayetteville. We were alerted to some anti-Obama-signism that began last Friday and were able to have a few words with the owners of said sign.

“I left my house about 9:00pm to go to the Human Giant show on campus and returned a couple of hours later to find our sign lying on the opposite side of our yard, about 25 feet from its original location. The plastic part that houses the “Obama/Biden 2008″ info had been ripped from the metal that holds the whole thing together. The plastic was wrinkled, and the metal had been bent too. The wind? An act of God?”

OK, so some drunk local stumbled down the road and might’ve fallen on it, right? Nope.

“Later that night, we caught 4 bar-hopping twentysomethings removing it from the ground. Luckily we stopped the perpetrators before they could rip it to shreds. This happens 2 more times on Saturday night. Every time ours was taken down, (our neighbors’) was too.”

Having differing political opinions is one thing. Destroying someone’s property in protest of theirs is another. I can’t say I’m too surprised that Obama signs are being destroyed here in the South. But most of us have probably always fancied Fayetteville as being slightly more progressive than many of our neighbors.

Of course, it’s not to say that one couple’s troubles are any indication of an overall change in attitude around here. Still, it’s disturbing.

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