A Virginia woman might be slapped with a hefty fine and a lengthy jail sentence after she was caught on camera stealing a political sign from another person’s yard.
Sarah Osborn Barwick posted a screenshot taken from her friend’s security camera earlier this week that shows the middle-aged white woman getting out of her black SUV and grabbing a Biden sign from someone’s front lawn.
“Hi Scottsville sign stealer Karen,” Barwick wrote. “Hope you had fun. FYI: I just donated to Joe in your honor. Have a nice day. Please, please, please share this post.”
Hi Scottsville sign stealer Karen ?Hope you had fun. FYI: I just donated to Joe in your honor.Have a nice day ?Please, please, please share this post.
Posted by Sarah Osborn Barwick on Tuesday, October 13, 2020
So far, Barwick’s post has received over 17,000 shares, although the woman has yet to be publicly identified.
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Stealing or vandalizing yard signs is considered a Class 1 misdemeanor in Virginia and is punishable with a $2,500 fine and up to one year in jail.
The incident is similar to another sign-swiping episode that happened this past July when a Mary Kay saleswoman was caught getting out of her pink Cadillac and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign on someone’s private property in Minnesota.
Linda Bergerson had been one of the cosmetic company’s top sellers before she was let go as an independent contractor for her behavior.
In an update to her original post about the Biden sign stealer, Barwick implied the woman has been located and said the situation is being “handled.”
“It’s a friends picture,” she wrote. “Don’t worry, it’s being handled.”
Related: Mary Kay drops saleswoman after she’s caught tearing down Black Lives Matter sign
Liquid Silver
Is it illegal to train cobras to nest under the sign and corner people they don’t know while simultaneously summoning the police? Asking for a friend.
WashDrySpin
People have cameras on the property, why risk your job, your status, your time, etc…for a sign…she MUST be clueless and ignorant
Goforit
Of course she is “clueless and ignorant”. She’s a Republican.
Creamsicle
What is it about the modern GOP that drives middle aged adults to act like children? This kind of immaturity is understandable coming from 19-year old voters getting into presidential politics for the first time, but very unbecoming of people in their late 50s!
Invader7
@ Creamsicle: 50’s? The Adolph Trumpies are in their 70’s/80’s and 90’s. The demographic he appeals to. Aka the people who’ll be gone from Earth but their damage will be left for us younger citizens to straighten out and clean up . Hopefully Adolph Drumpf will BURN in HELL , along with his acolytes ! Just thin out the herd ….
Invader7
@ Liquid Silver.. NO. And if it is illegal to have trained cobra guard animals and some dumb as rocks Trumpie STEALS a sign, it’s on them. After they die ( if the Universe is aligned that day) there’s not anything the dimwits can do !! @WashDrySpin: she and her ilk ARE clueless and ignorant. Look who they support. And the Orange Terror does NOT care one iota about his own family nor the lesser people. Vote BLUE on Nov.3 2020. YOUR life is at stake. VOTE the FASCIST republithugs out of office all across the country. Time for REAL change. If they don’t like it, too fricking bad . Suck on it and choke…
dhmonarch89
I had a neighbor that kept a Romney sign in his yard for nearly 3 years after he lost to Obama in 2012…I complained to the Home owner’s association, because I thought it was illegal to display campaign signs X# of days after an election, but they didn’t do anything about it… every time I walked through the neighborhood, I wanted to steal it, but had the sense to know people have cameras.
rray63
So kind of like Pelosi, if the camera had not been there you would have trespassed in their yard, pulled the sign up and ran fast?
barryaksarben
so rray which is worse a woman who takes her mask off once or a leader who ignore science and is responsible for the deaths of 220,000.? asking for all reasonable people who are not flat earther, birtherism and pizzagate benghazi Qanon LOGIC free idiots
dhmonarch89
rray- no I wouldn’t have stolen the sign- Federal elections laws do however have a bi law that all candidates must collect such signs within a timely fashion after the election (their campaign staff). Three years was excessive. Frankly, I long for the days of 2012 and Romney over Trump and the disgusting pack of enablers and liars the Republicans have become- including Romney half the time. Please- go join a fascist Log Cabin group and leave the sane people alone!
Iona Lexiss
Integrity and good character, the two attributes you will never find in a Trump supporter. Lest we not forget, if you support Trump, at very least you’re enabling bigotry, hate, and racism. In the midwest and south Mary Kay is a front for white women who support or practice all of the aformentioned.
shanfrina
… Good ?!?! Book her Fat As S now!!!
Mack
In my senior retirement community we had 20+ Biden signs stolen in one night. When it was mentioned on our local community board that Republicans were stealing signs, some Republican homeowner got all indignant about it. Some one asked her “if it wasn’t Republicans stealing the signs was Hillary or Obama since the Republicans accuse them of everything else.” She shut up and hasn’t been back on the site yet.
vinnieboiblue
Damaging or stealing political signs should be punishable with a $100,000 fine. Then use the stick that held it up to whack the thieves on their rear ends.
reallynow
If that happened a bunch of Biden supporters would be in trouble. Have you not seen the cctv footage? Lots of it. Its more common for Biden supporters to steal Trump signs. But even more concerning are the assaults and murders of Trump supporters. Obviously its a lot easier for Trump haters to dehumanize their fellow human beings. And you mean to tell me you aren’t anti cop, anti prison? Or would prison only be in the case of people you don’t like?
It’s wild how people with no substance of character can think they have moral high ground.
Terrycloth
I remember when people in the neighborhoods were stealing gay pride flags.they would get replaced and stolen again
blackhook
Another dumber-than-dirt, morbidly-obese Trumpanzee. Is there any other kind?
Tombear
Isn’t one of Trumps top demographics the uneducated?
reallynow
Where is your report on the 60 year old black man who was shot in the back of the head by a coward POS over his support of Trump? His name was Bernell Trammell. Who gives a shit about signs? There are videos of Biden supporters stealing signs left and right. I don’t know of a single case of a Trump supporter killing someone over their support of Biden. But how many Trump supporters have been assaulted and or murdered??? SAY HIS NAME BERNELL TRAMMELL. I am voting Trump in Bernell Trammell’s honor.
Chrisk
It’s sad that someone should be killed over a sign and it’s sad that you think honoring him is voting for Trump.
mailliw110
“Whataboutism” is a terrible disease that apparently affects Republicans.