Well, maybe not to Rachel...
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.
Is it effective in reducing lawn turfing incidents?
I have no idea.
I just punched “whole house faraday cage” into “images.”
Someone should call Chad, Matt and Rob and pull the alien prank on him, but then again, the reals one might just show up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqI0U3pBdA
I fear our alien invasion, too. Especially the ones speaking Spanish and Arabic.
Well, now, technically, yes.
BUT, have any alien spaceship ACTUALLY landed in his yard or at his house?
So....
Not necessarily. Has he ONCE been attacked by space aliens?
What a goofball.
Spotlights don’t keep aliens away.
After the third attack, I took all the spotlights down.
Those little garden gnomes keep ‘em away. Put one about every 20 feet around the house. Scares the crap out of ‘em.
You’re right. It must be working!
Well, maybe not to Rachel...
I live in Nevada so maybe I should see the bright side of this: now the aliens will have a place to go besides Area 51 ... :))
That explains my neighbor’s choice of landscaping.
Gene Hackman played a character from the movie, “Enemy of the State” (that also starred Will Smith), in which he played a former spy that lives in a place with a whole house Faraday cage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90vWtcHLlE
Exactly. And he doesn’t have the whole house covered in tinfoil.
They could still get in, eat the food, watch TV, make some long-distance calls (really, really, really long distance).
If anything, he needs MORE tinfoil.
See? They’re hiding the 1947 spacecraft IN PLAIN SIGHT!!!
Because everyone THINKS it’s just a decoration for a restaurant!!!
The aliens told me, everyone should vote for Jeb Bush.
#12. This “scientist” must have the same hair stylist as Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump do.
She looks like the woman who mopped floors but is wearing a mop on her head, while Trump’s hair looks like the tail of the skunk in the “Pepe’ L’Pew” cartoon.
Hey, it’s Friday. In the immortal words of John Riggins (Wash. Redskin fullback) to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, “Lighten up Sandy baby”!
He’s got great hair. A little tousled, perhaps, LOL.
Have you never seen this guy on TV? He makes a lot of money, apparently, by fooling people with this snake oil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHk9FLZMf4
I am sorry... but as I read the words "spectacle across the street", I started laughing. Still am... I envision a 3 ring circus, combined with a burning man effigy on fire, while one guy is breathing fire, one swallowing swords, a lady swinging naked on a trapeze, there are a bunch of midgets wrestling and a guy dressed like Abe Lincoln shouting the Gettysburg Address over a bullhorn.
Now that would be quite the spectacle.
Well, he appears to have been successful in keeping the aliens away so far.
EVERYBODY, you HAVE to see his hair at 44 secs and slightly before. Click video above.
C’mon, it’s Friday. Have a little fun!
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