Posted on 09/11/2015 3:44:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Pennsylvania city is trying to force a man to tone down the spotlights that neighbors say he uses at all hours to protect his home from "aliens."
Neighbors in the Virginia Road area of Hermitage said Arthur Brown, 78, shines the spotlights outside his foil-wrapped house at all hours of the day and night because he is afraid of extra-terrestrial attacks.
"Over the years he's become a real problem. He has a lot of issues fearing aliens," Nancy Raich, Brown's across the street neighbor, told WKBN-TV.
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Raich, 72, said she wants to sell her house and buy a condo, but she can't get anyone interested in her property because of the spectacle across the street.
"Who wants to buy my house? A nice decent house, garages, acreage in Hermitage, a nice place to live, when this yahoo across the street decides he wants to shine lights on me?" Raich said.
"I've had a lot of nice couples come and look at my house," she told The Herald newspaper of Sharon, Pa. "You can't get a second look until that's cleaned up."
A judge ordered Brown to take down the lights earlier this year, imposing a $500-per-day fine if he continued to shine his spotlights late into the night. Officials said he has not complied and now owes more than $20,000.
The city said it has now filed a petition to get an injunction to have Brown's lights removed.
"It's a violation of the city's zoning ordinance to have excess lighting that adversely affects neighboring properties," Hermitage City Manager Gary Hinkson said.
We’re gonna need a LOT MORE aluminum foil.
Wonder how those little lawn jockeys holding the lantern work? Might keep the BLM types away...........
Delightful additions to any garden. Really good for curb appeal.
The little lawn jockeys are the universal signal for midget horse racing.
You’ll get all those filthy gamblers from Graksnort.
Unles you have some specia setup for incoming power you are still screwed.
“’Over the years he’s become a real problem. He has a lot of issues fearing aliens,’ Nancy Raich, Brown’s across the street neighbor, told WKBN-TV.”
How’s the poor guy to know that she isn’t an extraterrestrial alien herself, using the ruse of wanting to sell her house so he’ll let his guard down?
I set out Meow Mix kibbles. When the aliens come to feed, I transport them to Calypso Louie’s racist space wheel.
Now how hard is that?
It’s a good night!
What the man really needs is a good medical work up. His brain is obviously deteriorating.
Yup. Same here
This is so stupid. You could cover the house in klieg lights and it won’t matter. The first thing the aliens do when they’re coming to get you is to cut the power, everybody knows that. Sheesh!
Delusional...you assume things not in evidence. Please prove for the court that beings from another planet or dimension exist
Two words: Star Trek.
Two more words: 'Nuff said.
Three final letters: Q.E.D.
What d'ya mean THEY cut the power??!? They're *animals*!!!!
Contact lenses must be a bitch for those guys.
Laz,
Your sense of humor always makes me chuckle
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