christmas gone mad

[daf]

america: bigger, brasher and unrepentantly over the top... and things don't get much more ostentatious than our yanky brethren celebrating the baby jesus's birthday.

but dammit, you're just not doing it right! unless, like carson willams, you've gone to the extent of setting up your own radio station so that people can dial in as they drive by and freak out at the horror marvel at the wonder that is your festively synchronised light & sound show.

you don't need sound to gawp at the lunacy that is carson's christmas lights, but the man did set up his own fucking fm radio transmitter so as to avoid barraging his poor neighbours with non-stop music as well as grand mal inducing light pollution!

oh well, it's all fun and games until there's an accident and the emergency services can't respond due to the tailbacks caused by crazed holiday makers taking a road trip to see what $10,000 worth of christmas lights looks like.

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[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

he's not doing it anymore... there was an accident a couple of years ago and the heavy traffic in the vicinity of his house prevented the emergency services from attending the scene.

but then one could ask the same question of people hooning around the countryside on large engined high perfomance vehicles ;P

i guess it's the sort of thing that happens when an engineer's not happy/bored with his home life and has a few quid kicking around to finance a little escapism... kinda like fishing only without the water, early starts & assault from the elements

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

everyone's gotta have a hobby i guess... he's no worse than golfers & roleplay enthusiasts.

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

let me guess: you're gonna become the doughnut pimp at work? ;)