The world economies are crumbling, people are losing their jobs and homes faster than the Spears sisters can spit out kids, we are in the midst of the most important election in decades, and the news story coming out of some of the biggest media outlets? Some kid had his Obama sign stolen from outside his house. Twice.

Yup. Stolen Obama posters made not only CNN (the video is embedded below), but the Wall Street Journal. Now I'm no economics expert, but I gotta figure the WSJ's got some more pressing issues to be covering.

Here's the really shocking part: The kid handmade a new sign, set up a video cam to catch the sign thief, then streamed the feed out over Ustream.tv. And it has gotten more than 40,000 views and is in the Top 10 most-watched videos. For a video feed of a kid's front yard. With garden gnomes and carved bears. And an occasional passing car. (If you like watching grass grow, you can watch the feed here.)

People have even gone as far as setting up groups to take turns monitoring the feed to help catch the sign stealer. And chat with each other 24/7 on the site's message board. I guess when you are unemployed... Truly a sign of our times.