JP's Christmas avenger
By adamg - Mon, 11/20/2006 - 12:39pm.
Thanks to today's Globe, we now know that the guy who owns the Jamaicaway Castle is a Christmas extremist. It's not just that he spends $1,100 a month lighting a path for jets heading to Europe or that he turns his lights on in October, but his attitude toward his neighbors that makes him so special:
"People in the back, they don't like it," he shrugs. "Well, too bad. It's Christmas."
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Near my parents' old house
Near my parents' old house in Atlanta, there was one of these Christmas extremists. The people next door bought a single decoration for their front yard, a 10 ft tall green Grinch which casts a disapproving eye upon all the decorations each year. Seeing the two houses side by side is quite a site.
BTW, did you all see my silly goodbye Boston/Xmas video featuring a drive past the castle?
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wonder what the law says about lights?
Living as I do in the city that sponsors an annual Illuminations Tour, I can hardly complain about someone indulging in an extravagant Christmas display.
But keeping it lit until 1:30 am, and threatening publicly to light it even later, may run afoul of the law. Don't neighbors have the right to "quiet enjoyment" of their property, and can "quiet" extend to lighting as well as sound?
Sacred Democracy Issue
Let the people illuminate!
--Sean O'Malley
--Kris Mineau
he shouldnt be allowed to
he shouldnt be allowed to call them "Christmas lights". he should call them "Holiday lights". to not do so would be insensitive to others.
Huh?
I have no idea what you mean by that. The "insensitivity" is keeping them on so late at night at all.
Straw man!
I suppose next somebody will accuse the neighbors of being against Christmas instead of people who don't prefer to have landing lights beaming into their windows at 1:30 a.m.
Although it could be worse: He could be one of those people who think their 250,000-light ensemble isn't truly complete without Christmas carols blaring out of giant loudspeakers all day long.
Adam, why do you hate freedom?
If the Christmas carols are played at a reasonable volume then the terrorist have won.
His right to illuminate Mars
Ends at my nose.
WWJD? (or think?)
WWJD? (or think?)
I just love that the guy
I just love that the guy buys thousands of dollars of lights and extension cords, then throws them all away at the end of one season of use. If he's got that much money to pay for new lights and the electricity to run them for three months, he's got too much money and doesn't know what to do with it. I have some student loans that need paying if he'd like to donate...
"If he he's got that much money..."
You do realize that you're talking about the guy that owns the Jamaicaway castle, right?
Of course he has too much money. He owns the friggin' castle.
He's a very nice man..we go
He's a very nice man..we go to the same church..he's just trying to bring out the Christmas spirit that so many people have forgotten all about..