SDLP Man's election posters ripped down- AGAIN!

[Trefor]

This may be due to the disintegration of the SDLP party in West Belfast leaving Alex having to put his own posters up.

So Alex has a reach of 5 feet?

Strange - he somehow seems far shorter on TV.

[Cara]

I thought it was standard practice to rip down other people's posters during election campaigns.

The best way of doing it is with two guys & a rope. One holds one end, & the other holds the opposite end, you stand on each side of the poster & swing the rope over the poster. Once you get it over the poster you pull - hard. With practice it all takes 6 or 7 seconds.

Trefor, before an orange parade here the RUC used to come round and burn down the flags with a flamethrower, it would maybe save you boys a lot of time and effort. :wink:

[Trefor]

I thought it was standard practice to rip down other people's posters during election campaigns.

The best way of doing it is with two guys & a rope. One holds one end, & the other holds the opposite end, you stand on each side of the poster & swing the rope over the poster. Once you get it over the poster you pull - hard. With practice it all takes 6 or 7 seconds.

Trefor, before an orange parade here the RUC used to come round and burn down the flags with a flamethrower, it would maybe save you boys a lot of time and effort. :wink:

Do you think that they have a couple they no longer need?

[stevey2005]

Heres the culprat:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23386031@N ... tions2007/

[cain1798]

This is frankly fairly pathetic stuff. People rip down posters. I've ripped down posters in the South, I even ripped down SDLP posters in deepest rural South Down one night (In my defence, we were all very drunk at the time) in a previous election, but they weren't PJ Bradley's. In the same election btw, we came across the son of a local SDLP activist in Rostrevor carrying three Sinn Féin posters on the outskirts of the town. His imaginative explanation was that they had 'fallen' and he has picked them up as they were untidy. His explanation for the shears he was carrying, 'They're broke and I'm taking them into town to get fixed', was less convincing.

Sinn Féin posters in Dublin, especially in Dublin South East and Dublin South routinely disappeared during the Local elections in '04. I was particularly impressed with the people who took down our posters, saved them, put them back up after the election and then shopped us to the City Council in the hope we'd get fined. FF activists in Dublin South West seemed to spend half their time ripping down posters of their rival candidates.

My favourite poster story though is from the 2002 elections. A friend and I were wandering around a part of Dublin, cleaning up some fallen Fianna Fáil posters, turned a corner, and ran into Labour people engaged in the exact same practice. Both sides froze in shock (It was a little dark and for all either group knew we were putting them up, instead of taking them down) and then burst out laughing when we realised what was happening. We then amicablly split two roads in the area for 'cleaning'.

So boys and girls, people from opposing political parties take down the posters of their rivals. All parties do it though I suspect none of them do it in an organised way. Mostly it's probably local activists taking stuff into their own hands. I was not going to sit through the '04 Local Elections with a Fine Gael poster on my doorstep

[kintama]

Trefor I may have solved the mystery of Alex Attwoods longer than expected reach. Driving through Andersonstown earlier I think I spotted him with a pair of steps.

[dubsthcentralboy]

The Fascists in SF have been tearing down posters for years...all over the country...

[rockofcashel]

This is frankly fairly pathetic stuff. People rip down posters. I've ripped down posters in the South, I even ripped down SDLP posters in deepest rural South Down one night (In my defence, we were all very drunk at the time) in a previous election, but they weren't PJ Bradley's. In the same election btw, we came across the son of a local SDLP activist in Rostrevor carrying three Sinn Féin posters on the outskirts of the town. His imaginative explanation was that they had 'fallen' and he has picked them up as they were untidy. His explanation for the shears he was carrying, 'They're broke and I'm taking them into town to get fixed', was less convincing.

Sinn Féin posters in Dublin, especially in Dublin South East and Dublin South routinely disappeared during the Local elections in '04. I was particularly impressed with the people who took down our posters, saved them, put them back up after the election and then shopped us to the City Council in the hope we'd get fined. FF activists in Dublin South West seemed to spend half their time ripping down posters of their rival candidates.

My favourite poster story though is from the 2002 elections. A friend and I were wandering around a part of Dublin, cleaning up some fallen Fianna Fáil posters, turned a corner, and ran into Labour people engaged in the exact same practice. Both sides froze in shock (It was a little dark and for all either group knew we were putting them up, instead of taking them down) and then burst out laughing when we realised what was happening. We then amicablly split two roads in the area for 'cleaning'.

So boys and girls, people from opposing political parties take down the posters of their rivals. All parties do it though I suspect none of them do it in an organised way. Mostly it's probably local activists taking stuff into their own hands. I was not going to sit through the '04 Local Elections with a Fine Gael poster on my doorstep

Sounds a bit like the Life of Brian story, where the two teams of assassins met in the sewers under Plilates palace, and priceeded to have an argument over who hatched the plan to kill or kidnap his wife first.

My funniest election poster story revolved around the last election, when i cam home from work, to find a few Labour activists, up a ladder IN MY FRONT GARDEN, attaching a poster to an ESB pole, which was also in my front garden.

When I asked them (before telling them who I was), what they were doing IN MY FRONT GARDEN, they innocently told me, sure they knew Mickey Browne well (my father), and he said that it was ok to put a poster up (I live in a a smashing poster spot, just outside the village here).

When I proceeded to tell them who I was, and that I was running myself (and was on my way out the back to get my own poster to put up), they said "can we put ours over it".

They got a good hearted two worded answer.

No prizes for guessing.

[oreiley1]

To be quite honest these election posters should be banned. Who on earth wants to see glaring down at them, front every lamp post a white middle aged minger.

On a more serious note, do these posters actually achieve anything? Save the trees,scrap them. Very interesting to, to see the hypocrisy of the Greens in full flow. Guess whose election posters are hung on every lamp post. Those protectors of the environment.

[Trefor]

I remember putting a poster on top of a pole in Penygroes & there was a Labour poster there already. We decided to avoid a 'poster war' & just place our poster above theirs.

Anyway, before I got down the ladder a bloke living in the house opposite pops his head out of the window, points at the Labour poster which had a huge photo of the Labour candidate on it & said, do you mind taking that down? - I'm sick of looking at the fat, ugly, c**t every time a walk out of the house.
We had little option but to take it down really.