BS: Karma in action

Subject: BS: Karma in action
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 01:27 AM

Allow me to direct you to this link which neatly illustrates the concept some might call "just desserts" and here is a small snippet to whet your appetite:


By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News
October 19, 2004

A Lakewood Republican stealing campaign signs late one night got nabbed when he ran across a low- hanging driveway chain, fell face first onto a pilfered sign and the concrete and knocked himself unconscious...

Subject: RE: BS: Karma in action
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 12:04 PM

"Jan said she and her husband have never done anything like this (taking signs) before," according to the police report.

Yeah, sure. Instant karma's gonna get you...

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Karma in action
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 01:34 PM

Oh, those wacky Bushites...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Karma in action
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 01:58 PM

A fellow down here in a suburb of Dallas had signs go missing (for Kerry/Edwards) several times. He finally set up a surveillance camera and caught two young guys from the high school cross-country team come racing through his yard, grab the signs, and keep heading down the street to the school. He followed them and confronted them and their coach. The guys had to apologize. They got off lucky--I think this falls under the heading of criminal mischief.

SRS

Subject: They Say Tenants Don't Vote
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 02:00 PM

LOL. In a campaign I worked (orchestrated), the bad guys got word of our side's plan to hang flyers in the lobbies of several thousand apartment dwellers' buildings. The tenant vote was a key one for our cause, and this last bit was to be the crowning touch of our part of the campaign. "They say tenants don't vote" was the big bold headline, with a short blurb about the cause, and below that their polling place was indicated. We'd already done a saturation phone-bank and felt this reminder to vote, and where, was all we needed to deliver the votes they promised.

We heard the bad guys were wise to us, so with one call I was able to redirect the effort all over town, just hours before the scheduled rollout of our many, MANY volunters. I crossed my fingers, then sat back to see what would happen.

It rained and rained on the opposition volunteers, all night long, as they looked for our paper in vain. We had changed our drop to the next night (still raining)! If they ever heard about it, they sure never came back to take them down. They had us outnumbered in workers, we were pretty sure-- but our volunteers were more mobile, more committed, and certainly more responsive to last-minute changes in plans.

We won by exactly the margin we had projected we would gain from the tenant vote-- about two thousand votes.

Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug! :~)

~Susan