More vo-vo-voltage for home holiday displays

[Natoma]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6659886/?displaymode=1006

Neighbors fight back
Throughout the country, people upset over the noise, traffic and garbage that comes when people descend on their neighborhoods to view the displays have fought back in recent years.

In Little Rock, Ark., some residents were so upset about a display with 3 million lights — said to be visible from 80 miles away — that they got the state’s Supreme Court to agree it was a public nuisance and order it scaled back.

In Monte Sereno, Calif., a couple whose huge display attracted thousands of passers-by angered neighbors and led the City Council to require a permit for any exhibit lasting longer than three days. This year, the yard holds a 10-foot Grinch, its spiny finger pointing at the house of the neighbors who initiated the complaints.

Smith, of PlanetChristmas.com, decided to give his neighbors in Franklin, Tenn., a bit of a break. After the crush of visitors forced him to hire off-duty police officers to direct traffic, he moved his show to a nearby church where there’s more room.

Meanwhile, Greg Cornwell has nothing bad to say about Parcell’s house across the street, but he’s bracing for the crowds and the looks from people when he tries to get his car into his driveway.

“They think I’m trying to cut in line,†he said.

 

[Guden Oden]

There IS such a thing as going overboard with christmas crap in the garden.

...And then we in the rest of the world wonder how you manage to waste so much more energy than everybody else, here's the answer!

(And the reason for the prevalent obesity problem in the same country is likely partly found in people getting their fat asses IN THE CAR to go see the energy-wasting christmas decorations. TAKE A NICE WALK INSTEAD FFS, PEOPLE!!! )

 

[Leto]

Guden it isn't a US-only phenoemena, there is a guy in Denmark that has a display that draws 100$ worth of power every day.