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Tracking device leads Missouri woman to dozens of missing Harris-Walz yard signs

By Daniel Miller
Published  October 23, 2024 2:47pm EDT
U.S.
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Tracking device leads woman to missing Harris-Walz yard signs

A woman used an Apple AirTag to track a Harris-Walz sign that was taken from her yard in Springfield, Missouri, which led her to a car trunk full of the campaign signs. (Credit: Laura McCaskill via Storyful)

The Brief

    • A Missouri woman used an Apple AirTag to find Harris-Walz campaign signs missing from her yard.
    • The woman posted a video on Facebook showing more of her campaign signs in the trunk of a car.
    • Two young men took the political signs but gave them back to the woman.

A woman used a tracking device to find Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign signs missing from her yard on Oct. 20 in Springfield, Missouri.

Laura McCaskill, with the assistance of an Apple AirTag, discovered a car trunk filled with campaign signs. McCaskill was led to the vehicle by an AirTag attached to one of her signs. 

In a video filmed and shared on Facebook by McCaskill, the Missouri woman and her partner, John Cardoza, ask two young men to open their car trunk after the AirTag led them to the vehicle. 

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Footage obtained by the social news platform Storyful shows the men opening their trunk containing dozens of Harris-Walz yard signs. 

Moments later, a woman identified in the video as the mom of the young men throws the signs back at McCaskill and Cardoza, telling the couple, "Here you go, liberals…it’s so stupid."

One of the young men tells his mom to go inside before offering to help put the political signs in McCaskill’s car. 

Then there was a conversation between the group on whether the theft of the Harris-Walz signs is deemed a felony or a misdemeanor. 

The young men who took the signs are heard in the video making the case the signs are valued at $180. 

But McCaskill and Cardoza respond, contending that the signs cost $20 each, which could make the total value $1,200.  

KOLR-TV in Springfield, Missouri reported that McCaskill was able to get her sign back because her address was written on the sign, but the rest are being held by the Springfield Police Department. McCaskill also filed a police report about the incident.

The video then captures one of the young men saying the motivation for taking the signs was a TikTok video he saw of an individual filling their house up with election signs. 

The Source 

  • Information for this story was provided by Storyful. The social news platform obtained a video on Facebook capturing the woman finding her missing signs and confronting the individuals who took them.  This story was reported from Washington, D.C.