What damages did you incur for having a democratic sign/sticker?

[dhinojosa]

Alright this one came out of the last post about the most f****d up republican bumper sticker. I decided to make another to have everyone talk about what damages did you incur for having democratic (Kerry/Edwards, Dean, etc) sign or sticker on your car or house.

I wanna hear stories.

As for me, my car was keyed and egged. I also had gone through 3 front lawn signs, all were stolen.

[Eurobabe]

1. Just put my CLARK08 license plate on Tues. and got rear ended

yesterday, with all my anti-GOP regalia blazing (FW oval and Is your yellow ribbon buying them more body armor?)

Just coincidental accident, guy behind me got hit first and caused chain reaction. But I wondered if KARMA was somehow involved?

[RebelOne]

28. Self delete. Posted in wrong spot.

[calimary]

64. Oh, GOD - I LOVE that bumper sticker!

"Is your yellow ribbon buying them more body armor?"

I hollered over to a guy in the next car at a stop light - how much I liked his bumper stickers. He had one that said "Support bush's war. Draft young Republicans." And another that had "Moral Values?" on one side, and a list of lovely GOP attributes like Lies, Greed, Hypocrisy, War-Mongering, and a few more.

And yes, I've had reaction to mine: car was keyed shortly after I put them on. And it was a new car, too.

Also, driving through Altadena (inland suburb of L.A. - evidently filled with knuckledraggers) when some guy sped past me and turned around (to face me, behind him, rather than the road ahead of him) and yelled something presumably obscene while flipping me off rawther violently. I couldn't hear him because I had my favorite rock station on with the windows rolled up. I just smiled back at him. He didn't like that.

FUCK him. And the whores his darling little bushie rode in on.

[candy]

2. None---I'm in Massachusetts.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

9. Mass (me too) However...

Have my Somewhere in Texas Village missing Idiot one

someone dumped fish parts all over the car
and left a note claiming Kerry was a Liar

and of course the 'Bush won, Get over it'

[getmeouttahere]

3. I have a Kucinich bumper sticker....

and I was keyed. I also have a bumper sticker that says...

"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the air force has to have a bake sale to raise money for a bomber"

[dhinojosa]

5. What a cool sticker....:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Hey.. we have similar

tastes in bumper stickers.

[CrispyQ]

14. My bosses wife use to own a little environmental/progressive store

& that was the number one selling bumper sticker in the three years she had the store.

[merbex]

19. My kids' pediatrician has it in their office n/t

[sui generis]

4. nothing here in Dallas

I live in a mostly blue neighborhood, believe it or not.

No problem with car either - although I can't think of a place I park that doesn't have CCTV monitoring.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. None. Lie-brul bumper stickers & K/E sign in window. n/t

[SCDem]

7. I just get the middle finger

when gas guzzling freepers pass me sometimes. No physical harm done. I just smile back :)

[TroglodyteScholar]

8. Not a great story...

But I had 2 yard signs stolen -- one of them a week *after* the election. Talk about sore winners.

[DURHAM D]

10. I have a DU bumper sticker and a Kerry/Edwards sticker on

my car. During the election runup on two occasions drivers quickly passed me on my left and then immediately pulled back into my lane a few feet in front of me. One of the drivers, a woman with kids in the car and all sorts of Christian and Repugs stickers, slammed on her brakes just as she got into the lane in front of me. I went off on the shoulder to avoid hitting her. She drove happily on ...

And then, just this week a big pickup with Support the Troops sticker passed me and pulled into my lane quickly causing me to slam on my brakes.

Dems are under attack.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. That woman is certifiable putting her kids in danger like that

[DURHAM D]

30. She falls in the group that I have defined as "Crazy for Christ". n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Ayuh. I can't argue with that diagnosis.

[CrispyQ]

12. Well, I live in a progressive pocket of a red state,

so not too much. I did have a big pickup truck try to intimidate me by tailgating & then when he passed, he tried to push me off the road, except he didn't want to mess up his truck & I basically was not going off the road. Then he flipped me off as he roared passed me. Infantile behavior, but expected from that mind set.

The only other thing was I had a Hero/Zero sticker with a photo of Kerry/Bush & someone hawked a loogie on Kerry's photo. Again, infantile behavior, but no damage.

I did get some birds flipped my way when driving outside the blue pocket, but nothing worse than that.


Here's my photo album of my terrific selection of stickers last year:

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=5497843&uid=2745263&members=1

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Good stuff! Mine are in post 11 :^)

[CrispyQ]

25. "We don't have a democracy,

we have a auction."

I love it!!! Also like your Peace sticker.

:rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. Thanks. It was my mom's car and came pre-stickered. I just added the

Greens and Kucinich. Otherwise mom already had it just about perfect. :)

[leftofthedial]

15. brakes and steering on front end of car sabotaged

caused a serious wreck, totalled my car

legal and financial consequences

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Oh my heavens. And there was no doubt it was due to your bumper stickers?

[leftofthedial]

18. almost no doubt

this was after a parking lot confrontation

rather long, complicated story

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. oh man. Not good. Has anything bad happened liek that since?

[leftofthedial]

22. no.

the car was totalled. I spent a couple of months unable to drive.

now I'm driving a really old beater we had on which there are no stickers (not because I fear ptting them on, but because I don't have any TO put on).

I'll get new wheels sometime soon and load it up with every progressive and anti-bushturd sticker I can find.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Glad everything is more or less ok now. Hope you get those

new wheels soon. :)

[brentspeak]

33. Do you know who did it? Get them arrested? n/t

[dhinojosa]

26. Damn, Do you know who it was?

terrible story.

[leftofthedial]

31. drunk NASCAR assholes in the parking lot of a large

country music bar/concert venue, showing off for their girlfriends

I should have ignored them, but they were pretty hard to ignore. Plus, this was during the 2004 campaign and I was pretty angry at the time.

[dhinojosa]

42. Are they in jail?

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

21. 2 thumbs ups (in red red Plano TX!) and 1 (possible) honk & thumbs down!

And here is my car!

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Love the cowboy hat *l*

[JNelson6563]

27. None but I have encountered

aggressive drivers. They read bumper stickers and get wait to pass you and do so with much ado and give dirty look while doing so. I always smile sweetly.

I saw one on a car in parking lot the other day, driver was in car with window down. Sticker said: Homosexuality is a mental disorder. As I walked by him I said "Homophobia is a mental disorder". He said nothing in reply. Maybe he was praying to the dashboard crucifix he had. Moran.

Julie

[DURHAM D]

35. Big word homophobia - he did not know the meaning. n/t

[Rambis]

29. Our 49 sign stolen

They had a "repbulican" booth set up in a park the borders our house. We stuck a vote democrat sign right behind the booth and it got ripped down. My wife found it in the pugs garbage can so we put it on a ladder a few feet back from the fence. They hopped the fence and stole the 49 sogn right next to it but didn't steal the ladder.
I have had Bush written on my car in dust of the window no tires slashed yet. I had the W sign flashed at me while in chicago with all my bumber stickers.

[RebelOne]

32. No problems here in Georgia, just northwest of Atlanta

I have my Democratic Underground sticker and another one that reads "Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home." And during the election, I had my Kerry/Edwards sticker and the one from MoveOn.org that read "Mission Not Accomplished." I didn't even get any dirty looks.

[JHBowden]

36. None.

I still have my Kerry and my Obama sticker on my car to this date.

[LittleClarkie]

38. Mine was because of a yard sign, but was self inflicted

I saw that someone had a Feingold yard sign but not a Kerry one. Well, I was a walking campaign HQ at that point, so I was going to pull into someone's driveway, back up, turn around, and leave that person a Kerry sign. Sadly, a girl just behind me was also backing out of her driveway, and it occurred to neither of us that either of us were there. So I have a nice big dent behind my door on the driver's side. And it's ALL JOHN KERRY'S FAULT!!! :D

Otherwise, mostly I got psychological damage from wearing my Kerry button absolutely everywhere I went, no matter how freeperish. I got called a Communist. I got told that it was okay for Democrats to live in America (the freeper I was talking to said he'd let us) but that we couldn't serve in any offical government capacity because we were unconstitutional. He threw in thou shalt not kill (abortion) though I don't remember that being in the Constitution. Scary pro-life gun guy. He was selling this t-shirt:

[gristy]

39. My car was keyed

Hood and trunk.

[Hosnon]

40. I got killed...but got better:)

[ArkDem]

44. You, on the verge of recovery, instead felt the icy hand of death!

[SonofMass]

45. He's not quite dead!

[ArkDem]

41. I was shot and killed.

[Davis_X_Machina]

43. 3 yard signs...

...stolen, and a head-sized rock through the back window of my minivan.

[Greybnk48]

46. My husband's car was "slurpied", but I just get the

My husband has a silloette of an upside-down rifle with a helmet on it ( he's a vet) and posts the Iraqi death toll daily on the back of his car next to this symbol. Someone splashed his car with a sticky red substance last week ( I call it a slurpy attack).

I just get the finger, at least as of last week. What changed on my car last week was that I posted my Democratic Underground sticker!!!
The local freepers are now ID'ing themselves by their salute.

[cosmik debris]

47. I got a $144 speeding ticket

In a small town in Oklahoma. I am not sure that it had anything to do with the "BUSH LIED THOUSANDS DIED" Bumper sticker, but that seems awfully steep for 48 in a 35 zone.

Oh well, I 'll stay out of Oklahoma for a while.

[dhinojosa]

49. I'd say that is pretty steep, unless there was a school there.

:/

[ChiciB1]

48. I Have A Truly Amazing Story!

I live in a HEAVILY, HEAVILY Repuke county, Katherine Harris being my congressperson. So you would think I would have had some egregious experiences.

However, NOT ONE sticker was ever removed and I HAVE had some removed from other elections. I STILL have lots of stickers on my car and the only reactions I get are positive ones! I even had a friend tell me that when I visited her house, a neighbor of hers told her that she had seen my car at a grocery store and LOVED the stickers!

Now I don't know if people are simply afraid of me or not. The fact that I have so many still on my car may make them think twice about saying anything to me. I have been known to stare a few people down, but for the most part the worst thing that ever happened to me was that one guy on a motorcycle gave me the finger!

This is one reason I maintain to this day that the election was a FRAUD!! I know from campaigning in the last election, Harris NEVER seemed like she would win. But low and behold, on election night I watched in horror as I saw about 40,000 votes dumped into her column around 11:00 PM. I've posted this fact many many times here at DU!

Florida was Kerry's!!!

[dhinojosa]

50. I wonder if that is the key...have one sticker and you get messed with....

have more that 20, and they'll leave you alone. :)

[ChiciB1]

52. I Think You're Correct!

I've often said... "I'm so in your face, bring it on"! Maybe others simply get the message by the LOOK on my face!

I DOUBLE-DOG dare them to talk to me! Not happening yet. Sometimes I think I no longer have blood in my veins, it having been replaced by venom!

And living down here in FL, I've noticed a few are fading.... soooooo I HAVE new ones to replace them!!!

[dhinojosa]

53. and now that you have been proven right about Iraq....

they are less likely to confront you. :)

[ChiciB1]

57. But I'm Still Waiting For My

CONFRONTATION!

[Catchawave]

51. Lost two DU bumper stickers :(

Guess I was lucky if I wasn't keyed.

[dhinojosa]

55. Weird cause DU isn't that well-known.....

or is it?

[ChiciB1]

58. Getting Bigger ALL THE TIME!! n/t

[catabryna]

54. Funny that you ask...

Just two days ago, for the first time, some guy in a red pickup was driving by my car with his window open, just literally screaming his head off at me.

I couldn't help but laugh, however. For someone to be that angry after "his" guy won, makes it pretty clear to me that the poor idiot is beginning to get quite nervous about his idol.

[ChiciB1]

59. I See You're Relatively New To DU....

Didn't catch it before now so I just wanted to welcome you! Glad to have you here and hope you stay.

I checked your profile and I used to run around in your neck of the woods. Trying to be discreet here in case you don't want to divulge. I spent a lot of time there even though I lived about an hour away. The place where I lived was not one to brag about even though I do go back there on occasion for Class Reunions!

Don't live there anymore and haven't for a long time, but where you live is about the only nice place in that state!

[catabryna]

62. Where I live is no secret...

But, you are right... I couldn't live any other place than here!

Thanks for the welcome!

[ChiciB1]

66. Okay Then... I Was An Army Brat!

Guess where THAT was??? About 40 miles from Crawford! YUK!

And another big YUK... Katherine Harris is now my congressperson!

The Trifecta of Political Disaster!

[calimary]

65. Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here. That cretin who screamed at you is probably in deep denial or angry that every last person in the US didn't get down on their knees to worship and beg forgiveness when junior "won" again. How dare you be so impudent! Well, we're straight there with ya! And isn't it funny that they're so angry - and after they "won." I've heard of sore losers but sore winners?

[leesa]

56. One key scratch. Mainly they try to threaten me by getting on my bumper

on the freeway or try to sideswipe, etc. Just yesterday someone with gun nut stickers tried to sideswipe me and would keep getting in front and slowing down and then getting in back and getting about 2 feet off my bumper. I have no references to guns at all on my car. Just Nasty people, these GOPers

[graywarrior]

60. Run off the road in Sarasota 3 times during the election

Had Veteran for Kerry sticker on my car. Got the raised fists and yelling obscenities by "gentlemen" in pickups whild they tried to push me over to the side of the road.

My democraticunderground.com sticker gets looks of confusion. They don't know what to make of it.

[CitrusLib]

61. Not me, but my sister had at least 4 yard signs stolen.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

63. This doesn't involve my car, but about a month ago

when I went into the local camping store to have my propane tank refilled for my gas grill I had on my t-shirt that says "He's still not my president".

The owner confronted me about the shirt and said "what does that shirt mean, that liar Kerry, he's the only guy I know that went to Viet Nam and came home with purple hearts and medals for nothing."

I then said to this cretin, "Oh, obviously you believe what those scumbag Swift Boat liars had to say."

He just looked at me and I said to him, "Listen Mister, if you want keep my business and the business of all my friends and family, CAN IT NOW. The fact is that 49% of eligible American voters didn't vote for Bush in November and 51% of the electorate is not a mandate."

He STFU. I love confronting these morons. Give them facts and they are speechless.

BTW, I've been back since then and butter wouldn't melt in this guy's mouth.

[stranger81]

67. My bumper sticker says "FREE PALESTINE"

nothing derogatory about Israel, only a statement of support for an eventual Palestinean state. Can't tell you the number of times I've found the Star of David drawn huge on my windshield in whatever medium seems to be available -- lipstick, marker, whatever.

I can only imagine the reaction if a similar pro-Israeli bumper sticker was rewarded with a hand-drawn swastika . . . . .