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When a local radio show ran a contest to bring in campaign signs for cash, one result was a more than a few people who woke up Wednesday to see the signs for their favorite candidates gone from their yards.
Murphy in the Morning, a quirky radio show on 107.5 KZL, told its listeners that the person who came in with the most campaign signs Wednesday morning would win $500.
The stipulations: only take signs from public places, like intersections.
The show, which has run the contest for the last four years, wound up collecting roughly 20,000 campaign signs.
But some people with missing signs were a little miffed.
“They were overzealous young men that wanted to make some quick money, and in the wee hours of the morning they went on a sign-snatching spree,” said Ivan Cutler , who lost both his Barack Obama and his Paul Gibson signs.
“They had thousands and they were just throwing them in a dumpster,” said Cutler, who met the contestants at Village Tavern, where the winner was named.
“What bothered me the most was they went on the private property,” he said. “It’s just a campaign sign.”
For others, the signs are a keepsake from the election.
“It was a historical campaign and I planned to keep the sign to remember it by,” said Lori Lewis , who lost a sign overnight, but got another back when she called the station.
A producer at the station chalks it up to some hooligan’s shenanigans.
“There’s always going to be one bad apple that can spoil a bunch,” said Jason Goodman of KZL . “And it’s like telling people at a bar, 'Here’s a drink, but don’t go and drunk drive,’ and they do.”