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Hey Lindsay, welcome we help you with.

So I volunteer for one of the local political parties, and one of my duties is to hand out yard

times for people.

Sometimes I'll come into the office and pick them up or I'll go out and deliver them.

And we've had a number of people who come in to request signs after I've already given them

to them and they say that because they keep getting stolen. So I was wondering if you

guys can come up with a way to either help prevent these yard signs from being stolen or maybe

create an un-stealable yard sign. Wow.

Just curious, have you done this work in previous elections?

I have not, no, but I've heard that it's a very common thing that's happened in years past and it's not you know one

party or the other it's just a very universal thing yeah I like to think that people

are stealing them to put them in their own yard but I suspect that I'm being

optimistic I think you are yeah let me ask you this have you ever walked by a sign for your opponent's party and thought I would really like to steal that. I will admit to having that

thought but I would certainly never act on it. Right, right. Would you ever

kick that sign? No. No. No.

Well, this is very interesting and I think we will try and get on it quickly because these signs only

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