Now that's how you decorate a house!

[Rilder]

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_qDIDeytLvLA/Sxk9cVZUxqI/AAAAAAAADPo/7Xs_q2NDcmM/s800/image001.jpg

Well, there is good news and bad news about my Christmas decorations this year.

Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down. First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by. Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.

Kind of feel like I gave in to the man by taking him down but my neighbor did confirm to near miss accidents on the busy street next to my house. I think I made him too real this time.

So it was fun while it lasted

:rotfl2::rotfl2:

[Skybird]

Apropos. there is one thing on my mind since some weeks, that I felt all the time I need to bring into order again. Why haven't I earlier...

Last christmas or the christmas before, I don't exactly remember, i posted a photo of a house in my neighbourhood with a hilarious amount of very "kitschig" christmas LED figures and christmas lightshow and such, and I questioned the taste and the mental sanity of the people doing that, a British soldier family, that even had set up a box where they wanted to collect money for the power bill. I said I read the poster on the fly, which I did from my bicycle - but I just read the headline - not the small print. Bad mistake.

Last month another appartment owner in my house told me what it actually was about. The British family actually collected money that way to buy toys as christmas presents for the kids of British soldiers serving and sometimes having fallen in Iraq or Afghanistan. As i heared last month, they collected around 300 Euros, and payed the powerbill themselves

To those of you remembering my post and the picture, I have to say this:

I regret my mockery of that time, caused by my own fault when not having read that sign completely. I express my respect for the intention of the family trying to do somethign about the issue on their mind, and hereby apologize. I really made an idiot of myself back then. I'm sorry.

I hereby also apologize to the members of 1st infantry batallion, Yorkshire Regiment, currently stationed in my home town. The units are rotating every two years or so , but I think they were already here back then.

P.S.
The family in question is no longer here, the house stands empty since some months.

[Reece]

I have to admit that when I saw the picture first I thought to myself "Gee his gutters are damned tough!":yep: Sure looks real but yes a good idea to take it down.:oops:

[Arclight]

@Skybird: A sad, but honest mistake. ;)



And that's one heck of a decoration. :haha::har:

[Snestorm]

I have to admit that when I saw the picture first I thought to myself "Gee his gutters are damned tough!":yep: Sure looks real but yes a good idea to take it down.:oops:

You and me both!
My exact thought was:
"Wow, solid gutters. Sure can't be plastic."

[Sailor Steve]

:rotfl2:That's a good one! Right up there with those fake arms and legs you can hang out of the trunk of your car.

[AVGWarhawk]

Good decoration!

[Shearwater]

:rotfl2:That's a good one! Right up there with those fake arms and legs you can hang out of the trunk of your car.

@AVG: New idea - how about "People passing away in my passat" :DL