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BUSINESS MAN BEHIND THOSE PROVOCATIVE ANTI-OBAMA SIGNS IN MASS. FINDS A WAY TO KEEP THEM UP AFTER BEING TOLD THEY VIOLATED LOCAL CODE
Bureaucrats from the town of Hanson might have told a local business owner that his massive anti-Obama signs violated building codes, but that business owner isn’t backing down.
You may remember Bobby Sullivan, a motorcycle parts salesman from Hanson, Massachusetts, who decided to publicly voice his discontent about the current administration by putting up several signs bearing saucy inscriptions about President Obama (read our past report here).
“Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot,” read one.
“Thanks Obama, you’ve spent my lunch money, my allowance, my inheritance, 35 years of future paychecks, and my retirement, you jerk,” read another, which depicted a little girl appearing to give the middle finger.
There was just one problem: The signs were apparently so large that they violated Hanson building codes. As such, the town asked Sullivan to take them down.
Unfortunately for them, Sullivan had a better idea. Instead of taking down his signs, he bought a 45 foot flat bed tractor trailer and used it to hold up the signs. This circumvented the building codes that required his signs to be smaller because now the signs are no longer considered “permanent.”
“This is America,” Sullivan told CBS Boston. “We have freedom of speech that’s what this was really all about. People in town didn’t like what I was saying and they tried to stop me”.
John Cooper
October 11th, 2012
I think “You Asshole” would have been better, but apparently there wasn’t enough room on the sign.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 11th, 2012
There is a guy on RT 20 in Palmer MA who has a big two sided sign we always stop to read when going out that way. His messages don’t pull any punches either, lol. Wish I could post a few, we usually take pics.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 11th, 2012
Oh yeah, Bobby Sullivan rocks!
persecutor
October 11th, 2012
I love Yankee ingenuity!
Stirrin the B.S.
October 11th, 2012
@persecutor – my thoughts exactly! Any obstacle the government puts up, American ingenuity finds a way to to overcome. I love it!
Unneutral
October 11th, 2012
I can’t get enough of stories like this.
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 11th, 2012
LOL! Great board
fool4jesus
October 11th, 2012
Little girl I’ve got bad news. It’s EVERY STINKIN’ Person in the Congress. The House and the Senate for the last 55 years has ripped us off. EVERY ONE OF THEM SHOULD TURN OVER THEIR FREEDOM AND THEIR ASSETS. Then we start over.
GW Bear
October 12th, 2012
He should hitch that trailer to a semi and drive it around the state, sort of spread the good word.