Shocked this morning by upside-down flag!

[demnan]

I saw it on the apartment complex across the street from me. Now why would an apartment complex fly a flag upside down?

[DagmarK]

1. It's a signal of protest against our govt.........

People are doing it all over the place.......

[GOPisEvil]

It's also a signal for an emergency...

...of course, it could have been a mistake, too. :shrug:

[Paschall]

2. Well, you do know it's an international sign of distress, right?

Maybe they have too many vacancies? Then again, maybe they hate ShrubCo.

[demnan]

3. Maybe both!

:D

[catmandu57]

4. When I buy postage stamps

I buy the purple heart stamps, the people working at our post office know this, and the woman there will hand me a sheet without asking. However, the main guy there sometimes works the counter and is a big time america supporter with a capital A. He'll smile real big and hand me a sheet of flag stamps, so, I smile back and in plain view stick them on upside down.

[arwalden]

5. Upside Down Stamps Mean "I Love You".... Don't They?

That's what I've always heard. --- But I'm sure the folks at Mastercard and Sears wouldn't even bother to notice the upside down stamp with your friendly and subtle message.

Oh well.

-- Allen

[goddess40]

6. I thought that was only for inamtes

I used to work in a women's prison and that was the only place I ever heard that.

(I also put my flag stamps on upside down. I order mine through the mail and marked the box for a different kind, I am so sick of looking at that flag, but they sent me the flag anyway.)

[PunkinPi]

9. I put the flag stamps on upside down too.

Just my way of subtle protest against this illegal administration and their disgusting crimes against our nation and the international community.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. There's a flag flying at a prominent intersection in my

new neighborhood, and it's supposed to be in memory of the victims of 9/11.

On the day my furniture arrived, I came to meet the truck and saw that this flag was upside down. During the course of the day, a grim-faced man came, took it down, and raised it again, this time rightside up.

I suspect that some anti-Bush protestors had turned the flag upside down. Whether the grim-faced man understood the significance of it or just thought it was "crazy kids," I don't know.

[Kamika]

8. Doesnt it mean theres a desease?

I heard that a flag upside down on a ship means they got a desease or something

[bookman]

10. Just a mistake

I suspect it was just a mistake. I taught in a Middle School where the principal had students put the flag up daily. One morning I noticed it was upside down. When I told them they just shrugged. They (including the principal) had no idea it was a distress signal.