I hate it when people tear down fliers. HATE it. It's like, someone cared enough to take the time to design this thing, throw down enough to pay for 7 cents a copy, walk around taping them up... and then some asshole just tears it down? Bullshit.
One time, I was around IV Theater, one of the big lecture halls at UCSB, putting up fliers for Students for Impeachment. It's off campus, kinda far away from everything, so I was on my bike to get around faster. It was the middle of the day, but everyone was in lecture. I wanted to have a bunch of lit posted when people walked out.
Anyway, I had just put up a bunch around the building and was walking my bike down the street putting them up on light posts when I saw that one of the ones behind me had been torn down.
My heart started beating fast and there was only one guy around, so I asked him, "dude, did you tear down my flier?" and he said yes, at which point my heart started beating faster and I must have had this look of rage in my eyes cause I think that's the most pissed I've ever been in my life, besides when the Chargers lost to the Patriots in the playoffs last January. I leaned my bike against a wall and picked up my u-lock (heavy, metal) and walked toward him (he was bigger than me) and asked "why'd you tear down my flier?" and he said, "freedom of speech."
Yes, he said FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
At which point I said, no that's bullshit, that's not freedom of speech, that's you denying me MY right to freedom of speech and just because you disagree with something you read doesn't give you the right to destroy it and do you understand how people put effort into these things and I called him an douche bag and he got mad but we kept talking and I explained it to him and we had a real heart to heart, me the pissed off activist and him the stubborn apathetic. He ended up apologizing and saying he never thought of it that way and he'd never do it again and I apologized for calling him a douche bag and I put my u-lock back on my handlebars and we all lived happily ever after.