Sunday 22 October 2006

Court switches off Christmas lights to let neighbours sleep

A man whose annual display of 22,000 Christmas lights failed to impress his neighbours was given an injunction yesterday banning him from putting them up this year.

People living close to Vic Moszczynski in Sonning-on-Thames, Berks, told a court that marriages had been put at risk by the lights, which attract sightseers to their otherwise quiet drive.



Some spoke of their frustration at queues of traffic, including coaches, and of disturbed nights that had led them to take sleeping pills.

Mr Moszczynski responded by calling the ban "a sad day for Christmas" and said his display had raised £55,000 for charity. The injunction was obtained at Reading county court by Wokingham council and will last for three years.

The council had originally sought to ban all lights outside Mr Moszczynski's house but both parties agreed on a much-reduced display of 300 bulbs, which must not be attached to the walls or roof.

YEAH!!! let's have more of it. These things look totally ridiculous. Just another silly fad imported from the good ol' US of A. (Dr Scrooge!!)

Report pinched from Nothing to do with Arbroath.