Could have been wind, but I doubt it. 3 distinct areas of missing vinyl. And it was missing, not flapping. I have a 3 and 5 yr old. The missing parts look exactly like any sticker my kids try to peel off. Starts big, then gets smaller and smaller until it rips...think trianagle. This sign is the new vinyl cover....for those (like me and obviously my kids) its fun to peel stickers off....it just is. Three areas---two on the right side and one on the left side reveal kids having fun, not vandalism (as defined). Malicious intent to harm. I think there was soley an intent to be "bad". If the kids who did this were reading the News Enterprise ( I doubt they are), I think they would laugh at the opposing camps inuendos.
The News Enterprise now is serving as a battlefield where NC/NON-NC ideas are tossed like bombs on the community, further separating it. If these two groups joined (and generally they are) arms, the community as a whole would benefit.
http://www.denpubs.com/Scribd.Item-6642.114134_News_Enterprise.html
While I am not a trained police investigator: I note: There are three missing parts of this sign. Each of the three area is in a location of non-important reading. Basically the "vandal" left the reader being able to read the poster as it was written. If either NC or Non-NC intent was to vandalize the sign, wouldn't they make sure you could not read the sign? Better yet...one might argue the vandal may have been freightened away and could not finish their job....why then three distint tears, each of which would have taken time. Rather, if the intent was to make the sign unreadable, the vandal would have keep peeling one area to ensure the message was obliterated before moving to another part of the sign.
Honest to God---all of this crossed my untrained eye/mind in less than 10 seconds as I drove by the intersection. Maybe I missed my calling or have better things to worry about. Or maybe I am dead wrong and the vandal intended to make a political statement by the vandalsim. I am drawn to this now because it may escalate to war between NC and non-NC residents, just as the Hatfields and McCoys or the Christian/Jewish/Muslims of the past/present where minor difference of opinion(or fact) manifests into all out war. People ask how politics can get into newspapers, once proud of printing "just the facts". Here either the reporter, editor, or letter writer....wrote or expressed others opinions as to who/how this was caused. Opinions they likley felt or agreed with internally and which they knew would interest their readers. Afterall, who just wants to read facts--facts are boring.
If it was wind---then the NC business community can get a free sign under some workmanship contract with the sign company----but then maybe, just maybe it was the sign company that floated the vandalizm theory and in-fighting to avoid having to replace the sign for free????? Or to add more conspiracy ...maybe the sign company vandalized their own sign in hopes of increasing business by having it replaced/repaired. Or maybe, just maybe the NC business association vandalized their own sign to get press on what otherwise was a relatively unrecognized sign. The PLOT THICKENS---tune in next week for the adventures of Barney in our own Mayberry RFD. Andy, please come off vacation so that we can just solve this by proving to the town---ITS JUST KIDS.
