Posted on 12/07/2005 8:31:33 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
DEERFIELD TWP. — Sheriff's deputies asked the owner who lit up his house with 25,000 Christmas lights synched to music to turn off the display after a traffic accident Tuesday night.
Deerfield Twp. resident Carson Williams agreed to shut down his holiday decorations indefinitely.
Williams told a Cincinnati television station that sheriff's deputies could not reach the traffic accident because of the traffic lined up in his neighborhood.
The display caught attention across the nation on network TV and on the Internet because the lights on the Williams house and filling their yard are synchronized by computer with music broadcast to car radios. There are three songs in the 12-minute display: Frosty the Snowman by the Jackson 5; God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood and Wizards of Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Williams turned his display on the week of Thanksgiving and motorists have lined up between 6 and 10 p.m. ever since.
For the time being, the only place to view the Williams' display will be online.
"He told us if we start having traffic problems that he would shut the display down for a while," Warren County sheriff's Lt. Ed Petrey said Wednesday morning.
Two cars collided in a minor accident at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Simpson Creek Drive, which leads to Winding Creek Court, where the Williams live near Mason in southern Warren County. No one was injured.
Williams is an electrical engineer who said his family spent about $10,000 on the display. He had promised his neighbors they would shut it down if there were problems.
"If I get a single complaint I'll shut it down," Carson had said Monday night.
He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
wow! your home looks beautiful!
great job! and not too bad of
a bill for all that either!
The way read it, the sheriff asked him to shut it down because the traffic jam blocked emergency vehicles from reaching the accident.
The simple solution is to develop a traffic control plan so that between certain hours lookysees drive by in one direction only, leaving the other side of the street for through traffic, neighbors, etc. It could work, maybe.
Yeap. There is a house in ABQ that people go see every year. Neighbors took the people to court over the traffic & exhaust harming them.
The original quote was "Peace on earth to men of good will".
Changes the whole meaning, doesn't it?
Other than that, I liked his production.
:-)
Here's something sure to put a smile on your face, armymarinemom... and tell dad, too.
Oh now that is good news. What a bunch of whiners. </p>
Now that's a good use!
Really!!! What was he thinking?!? Tying the idea of peace in with Christmas?!?
Luke 2
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Hmmmmm.....
It's a peace symbol. Most of the people who use it don't really have peace in mind.
Oh I LOVE those pictures!
Thank you.
Really? Please enlighten to what they have in mind if it's not peace?
Saw a book yesterday - "Holiday Decorating For Dummies". Obviously this guy doesn't need it
How does an incircled upsidedown broken cross relate to peace? Most of the idiots I've seen carrying them are degrading our military & calling for us to surrender to our enemies - which isn't peace.
A plain cross is the true symbol of peace.
While that is indeed true, many who would embrace this time of year do see other well known symbols as symbols of peace. That is a universally accepted symbol
One of the most widely known symbols in the world, in Britain it is recognised as standing for nuclear disarmament – and in particular as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In the United States and much of the rest of the world it is known more broadly as the peace symbol. It was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist and a graduate of the Royal College of Arts. He showed his preliminary sketches to a small group of people in the Peace News office in North London and to the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, one of several smaller organisations that came together to set up CND.
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Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector who had worked on a farm in Norfolk during the Second World War, explained that the symbol incorporated the semaphore letters N(uclear) and D(isarmament). He later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater, more personal depth:
I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it.
Eric Austin added his own interpretation of the design: "the gesture of despair had long been associated with the death of Man and the circle with the unborn child."
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Later it appeared on anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and was even seen daubed in protest on their helmets by American GIs. Simpler to draw than the Picasso peace dove, it became known, first in the US and then round the world as the peace symbol.
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Although specifically designed for the anti-nuclear movement it has quite deliberately never been copyrighted. No one has to pay or to seek permission before they use it. A symbol of freedom, it is free for all. This of course sometimes leads to its use, or misuse, in circumstances that CND and the peace movement find distasteful. It is also often exploited for commercial, advertising or generally fashion purposes. We can’t stop this happening and have no intention of copyrighting it. All we can do is to ask commercial users if they would like to make a donation. Any money received is used for CND’s peace education and information work.
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