Posted on 12/09/2018 7:32:02 AM PST by BenLurkin
The family put up the display for a contest, purchasing a dummy online and positioning a ladder beneath it to look like it’s tipping over.
It’s a recreation of the scene from the movie "National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation," where Clark Griswold hangs from the roof while putting up Christmas lights.
The display was too realistic for some. The Heerleins said someone rushed to help, thinking the dummy was a real person in distress. They called 911, along with about a dozen others.
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That is awesome!!!! I can understand the calls.
Not smart. Not even for Halloween.
That movie was made a long, long time ago in 1989.
Most people have forgotten about those images or never saw them in the first place.
Of course, some people know all that in the beginning, and just want to do something to ‘Go Viral!’, get their 15 minutes of infamy.
Before all the people posting images from “Stripes” respond to you, let me be the first to say “Lighten up, Francis.”
Thanks. There’s my gut laugh to start the day!
I don’t know, Margo. A great line I still use with the wife.
Plus of course the greatest movie line ever.... schltters full.
Yep, another gut laugh! Thanks!
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