Stealing signs is stealing. Coming onto my property to steal those signs is trespassing. In no circumstance is either of these things okay. How any parent can think this is okay is beyond me. How any parent could be proud of these actions is astonishing. SMH. Kids will be kids but parents who encourage/accept/condone these behaviors are the real problem here.
I was not surprised at the election results in Pennsylvania after driving down there several times during our college search. Many signs for Trump, not a single one for Clinton. Of course, we were in the rural parts of the state - I know the cities voted for her.
@3scoutsmom - Yep me too, for example we can only display graduation signs from May 1 - June 12th…
Such attitudes tend to be common in countries ruled by corrupt and/or authoritarian/totalitarian governments which focus on enriching themselves and their sympathizers while screwing the rest.
In that environment, I can understand…especially considering the governments and their sympathizers were the effective instigators while the rest are often doing it to survive and/or as a means to stick it to the government elites and sympathizers who screwed them.
@MichiganGeorgia I think they go a bit overboard on enforcement here, one of my Girl Scout’s parents got a nasty gram from the HOA because the girl put a Girl Scout Cookies Available Here sign in her yard and evidently it is against the rules to advertise anything “for sale” except for the actual property. Of course that girl took the sign down because she didn’t want to break the rules but I had to roll my eyes at that one.
What is a graduation sign for, @MichiganGeorgia? They aren’t a thing here. Thankfully, we don’t have the football/cheerleader signs here, either, nor are the stork signs, all which I used to see living in the south.
I’m okay with no girl scout cookie signs otherwise where exactly do you draw the line? Someone is always selling something…what is offensive and what isn’t? It all contributes to visual clutter and ugliness when it should be trees and flowers, IMO. 
My neighbors don’t put up signs, we rarely see a bumper sticker for a candidate. Last neighborhood sign was when the boy next door was born, 9 years ago.
Except: those please keep your dogs off my lawn signs, lol.
Guess that means you live in a place with lots of competitive elections. Your vote is comparatively valuable compared to those in many other places.
Where I live, many of the state and district elections are blowouts, so people do not bother putting up signs for them. It is mainly for local elections that signs go up (and not that many, since the local candidates do not have as big budgets).
@doschicos I also agree with the GS sign, you have to draw a line somewhere and sometimes that line is “no signs”. Graduation signs are very popular here. Families hang signs congratulating their sons and daughters and announcing their next endeavor. For my son, it was the USAF. For my D, it named the college she would be attending. There are people whose children are not attending college or are going to the local community college who are offended by the signs; there are others who simply say "Congratulations to XXX, Class of XXXX, Way to GO! I love to drive around this time of year and look to see who is doing what with their post high school years and reminisce about the kids when they were playing baseball league or in girl scouts, that sort of thing. In general, the signs start going up on May 1st and will come down next week after the local high school graduations.
I saw many political signs in southern New Jersey last summer for a certain candidate. I was happy to practice my right not to buy anything in stores in those neighborhoods or eat at the restaurants. My small political protest 
IMO they do more to drive people and communities apart than they help a candidate or cause, but I support anyone’s right to put up any sign they want within the confines of the law.
I’m reminded house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church that was purchased by a non-profit and painted the color of the rainbow flag. The rainbow house has been vandalized with anti-gay graffiti, fecal matter, and bullet holes have been found on the windows and exterior. Westboro has also been vandalized and subjected to bomb threats. Who in their right mind would want to live on that street? :-/ Yet, even Westboro seems to recognize that theft is wrong.
Our high school sells grads signs for $35 a pop as a fundraiser for project graduation.
@doschicos - That’s why they have a limit to how long you can keep signs up. Unfortunately they don’t have a limit on how long you can keep flags up… So I have to look at our neighbors NE Patriots flag all year long…
Oh yes! Definitely voting with my dollars, @tonymom! I think it is a mistake for businesses to get involved in partisan politics absent stuff like supporting the environment which benefits us all even if you choose not to believe in climate change.
Re: grad signs/flags - Isn’t that what Facebook is for? I can find out all that stuff from folks Facebook posts. I don’t need to see it in their yard!
This reminds me of an old adage I kept hearing from relatives and extended family friends who managed/owned businesses…“It’s rarely a good idea to mix business with partisan politics/religion/controversial topics unless your core customers are from the faction who supports whatever partisan position you take.”
So how about if it was a David Duke sign, or a KKK sign, would it be okay to steal? Or a swag sticker? To her there wasn’t much of a difference. For the record, I am a Republican, she was a few months from being able to vote, I viewed it as the civil disobedience. I didn’t know she did it until after the fact, so not sure how I encouraged her?
If her asks me if my kids took it I would tell him the truth, and so would she.
Nope, still wouldn’t steal it. If it violated local ordinances I would report it. I might organize a rally or put a ton of my own signs up on my lawn. I would certainly talk with my neighbor and encourage him to take the signs down himself.
Stealing my neighbor’s sign might give me a quick thrill but it wouldn’t accomplish anything positive, and it’s not civil disobedience if it’s done under the cover of night.
The OP reminds me of one of my favorite quotes. “There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See”
@Akqj10 Stealing is wrong, stealing a political sign that you don’t agree with is wrong, period full stop.
Stealing a KKK sign is wrong, stealing a rainbow flag is wrong, stealing a David Duke sign is wrong, stealing a Cresh is wrong… STEALING IS WRONG! What don’t you get about stealing is wrong?
People come from many different cultures and beliefs and have to respect that not everyone believes the same ways you believe, we have laws that EVERYONE must follow you don’t get to pick and choose which laws you like. (even with Girl Scout cookie signs)
Look at the issue with the recent sexual assaults in Germany by recent immigrants, in their view it was okay to rape young women because of the way they were dressed. Is that okay with you? If you can pick and choose when it’s right not to follow the law why can’t they? By their cultural beliefs those women were “asking for it” The government had to publish booklets telling immigrants not to rape girls in public swimming pools! https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8663/germany-migrants-rape
I’m also confused as to why you think it’s the victim’s responsibility to ask your DD if she was the thief involved? Really I don’t get that, could you explain why she would admit her wrong doing if confronted but feels no need to apologize for her criminal act unless she is caught???
Not at all. Due to pretty grotesque gerrymandering, where I live is solidly controlled by one party.