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Dalton goes after Christmas lights in May offenders
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The city of Dalton has taken innovative steps to address a long-standing problem that, admit it or not, gets under the skin of every decent human being on the planet. Finally, someone is doing something about Christmas lights in May.
My lovely SWAT-certified wife considers this a reason to knock on the door and ask said resident just what the heck he or she was thinking. My wife, of course, has never had a whupp’in because she walked up to someone’s home and started complaining about something. I have. (An unfortunate incident involving several small farm animals and some of Mr. Latimer’s special holiday mix.
The details were sealed per the court.)
Anyway, I tread lightly when I cross onto other’s turf. The list of things that I will risk another whupp’in does not include complaining about Christmas lights in May—although, from afar, it does irritate me.
Does this violate the rights of someone who wishes to put up Christmas lights or decorations for that matter because they want to observe the Christmas Holiday year long? I don’t know. Why would someone want them up all year anyway?
As a parent of four and some-odd kids, I associate Christmas with purchasing things. I don’t care to celebrate that all year long. I like the Christmas music but after a month of it, I’m good. It’s not practical to keep the yard decorations past the holiday period because when the weather warms up, vandalism increases.
There’s nothing worse than waking up and finding someone placed a couple of pink flamingos in your nativity scene.
At some point, the need for a law has to have some practicality. For instance, the hot-debated “Sagging” law actually hinders law enforcement. I’ve said this before and it has merit. Chasing “saggers” is not only productive in terms of being able to catch them, but also brings much-needed entertainment value to law enforcement.
Saggers are actually so easy to catch that you have to pace yourself not to catch them too soon. When they start running, you need to chase but not overtake the sagger. It’s important to let the sagger feel like he has a chance to win the foot race. The longer you keep pace with them the funnier it is.
It’s like chasing a penguin. It’s crazy, wacky fun
Comments
By Cassie
May 20, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this
I dread the ribbing I’m going to get for admitting this, but…
I lived in Dalton.
Yes, yes, it’s true. I was born here, and have lived here most of my life but lived in the only city in the whole entire world where some poor hapless soul felt the need to do his entire yard in INDOOR OUTDOOR CARPET in teal blue.
Just because he could.
Carpet capital of the world.
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By Natalie*
May 21, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
Wow! I am caught up in serious laughter because I pictured you “chasing” a sagger and getting a whupp段n from some irate redneck who doesn’t want to take down the lights because they are so purty! Keep em coming Steve!
By ElBubba
May 21, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
A new record!
By Phil Dolan
May 22, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
Steve Rose’s compositions have come a long way. He’s learning the power of structure.
He’s learned how subject matter dictates tone. He’s realized that tone invokes structure which itself can be mitigated by the rhythm of the piece.
Steve rose gets the prize for most improved blogger on the ajc.
A+
By Cassie
May 22, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
Spam overload. And here I checked in at eleven and comments were locked down tight. Steve, have you gotten yourself a new job as the comment police?
By Fred
May 22, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this
No doubt El Bubba.
Cassie: Comments seemed to be locked for everything last night. Or did you mean 11 this morning?
By Cassie
May 22, 2008 10:13 PM | Link to this
Eleven this morning. But here it is ten eleven pm and comments are open. Have we suddenly slipped into another dimension?
By Furman Bisher
May 23, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
Let’s take the focus away from Christmas lights and saggy pants. These mickey mouse cops need to focus on two things(statewide) illegal aliens and weight loss. These big fat cops on the cycles look like the bear in the circus. Until the police deal with this swarm of illegals, I have trouble taking them seriously. Maybe change the name from “police” to “goverment cashiers”. Why not just start paying them directly instead of participating in this court charade? Why do we even pretend to have civil rights anymore? Why have laws when these cops pick and choose what to enforce?
By ouch that hurt
May 23, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
TROLL ALERT, TROLL ALERT
By ElBubba
May 23, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
Cassie vomits her brains out on every blog she visits, so I wouldn’t taunt her, ‘ouchthathurts’.
She’s like an bulemic aunt bea with a failed lobotomy or something. She’s not any thing unusual, just another horrid witch that emerged as another dime a dozen casualty of the USA culture wars of Nascar/Oprah/Soaps/Religion. It’s not her fault. I guess all those perfect airbrushed faces and bodies in the Cosmo magazines made american women unhinged. Why? Women compared themselves to illusions and now they’re no better than prurient public facilities and conversational gumball machines. They’re gaunt, hollow canaries in a psycho-sexual cage of look at me, I can have it all.
it’s a shame. Where does that leave american men horndogs? Soviet mail order brides. Get a load of Veruschka.
By Stone
May 23, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this
Doesn’t sound like the ElBubba we know and love. Could it be a poser?
By Fred
May 23, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this
Without a doubt Stone. I guess you will be the next troll victim, I already have a clone. Life is grand ain’t it?
By Stone
May 23, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this
Guess I’m lucky, no one’s ever posed as me before (that I know of) though I do get accused sometimes of having aliases, which I find odd. I was you Fred for awhile or was it you were me? I don’t know, but I do suspect someone is using El’s name in vain. ElBubba is more laid back, less verbose, less insulting too. What has Cassie ever said that warrants such venom? Seems like a nice girl to me. This poser is obviously angry at the world like hans/jetlag or Kruschev’s dad. Can’t we use trademarks or something?
By Stone
May 24, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Tricking the trolls is easy on this board. It’s not so much shooting fish in a barrel as it is flaming gay morons on a blog.
bwa
By Stone
May 24, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this
I spoke too soon! The last “STONE” post about flaming gay morons wasn’t from me, obviously. Agree with my posts or not, a least they make sense. You’ve got to be a real loser to pose as someone else.
By G.Mauricio
May 24, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
U picked it stone. It is hans apology! He is the 1 who likes 2 call everyone morons and UR right what a loser.
By The Banditry of Pundits
May 25, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Now, hold on, I was only fooling, gee whiz, now I feel bad, I didn’t mean nuthin, I was just trying to get people to like me, I just wanted to make some friends, honest, I thought we were supposed to have a good old fashioned all american p!ssing contests, you know, you’re a moron, no, you’re a moron, you are, you R, UR, U, you know, then I thought we were supposed to play practical jokes on each other, you know, fun stuff like stealing aliases and stuff, it’s great, I was having a good time, and making friends, and everything, and I almost got away with it too, until G.mauricio had to go and ruin it all.
By G.Mauricio
May 25, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
LOSER!
By ATC
May 25, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Please Steve, Come back. We are drowning in drivil here.
By Cassie
May 25, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this
Wow, yeah, totally someone who has no idea who I am, someone who has no clue I hate Oprah, can’t stand Dr. Phil, think Nascar is as much as sport as freaking ping pong, or whatever…so….someone is just looking to stir up the pot. Probably the same lame a* who was around the other week taking the lady to task and telling her to be ashamed to tell her own race that they were too “black”.
Whatever.
By son of awcomeonnow
May 26, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
The article’s about ordinances for Holiday decorations that make the surrounding area’s look trashy when left up past late January. Maybe some comments will be made pro or con about what the article’s about. I’m all for it- It’s one of my three pet peeves 1. Trashing an area by overbuilding apartments. 2. Trahsing an area by littering. 3. Showing you’re trash by leaving your blasted icicyle lights up on the eaves past winter (at the latest). 3.
By They gave all
May 26, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
Trolls R people 2.
Cassie has a website and her picture is on the website and she’s like a total babe, but she’s just too difficult to date, or 2 picky. If she knew who I was, she’d be interested but I refuse to be anything on this blog but a troll so that if she’s interested it will be for my mind not my fame and glory and fortune and stuff. I had a bad experience with someone named annetteonthenet once and we met at a hotel she flew in from oregon or sandiego, i forgot, but anyway it turned out that she was interested in me because she found out who i am somehow by using cyber detective work which is really frightening, but i enjoyed the sex anyway and when i dumped her she was so mad that she’s been cyberstalking me into these blogs on the ajc ever since.
By Cassie
May 27, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
I’ve never been told I was a total babe before. I think I’m flattered.
I think.
I have a blog, not a website.
And I admit to being difficult to date. I am emotionally difficult.
It comes with having a vagina.
Next!
By Rudy
May 27, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Natalie, Press the “Post” button just once dear. That’s all it takes.
By Stone
May 27, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
Sorry to burst your bubble Cassie, but the same person who just called you a babe, earlier posed as El Bubba and called you a horrid witch among other things. Hansapology/wetrag/theygaveall/banditry of pundits all the same loser looking for attention.
By Cassie
May 27, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
Now that is just wrong.
Banned from the board!
Remove posting rights!
By Fred
May 27, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
Anyone want to share some popcorn and a beer while we watch Stone try to get out of THIS one?
By Stone
May 27, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
Um, I think you’re a babe Cassie, just by reading your posts.
By Lt. Steve
May 27, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this
Thanks Phil! I’m honored. I’d like to think it also is in line with my new philosophy of not using the Prozac. Of course we’re all kidding here. I wouldn’t want anyone to think i was unstable or possibly listening to the voices again. When they do, they speak of Jimmy Dean’s Sausage. I don’t get it. What’s the message?
By Uh Clem
May 29, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
You guys are way to serious about stupid stuff. You should work for the Postal Service.
By Gern
May 29, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Furman, Looks like you’re wasting your co-pay on therapy. Try Prozac, or maybe just drink until you can’t type anymore.
By ElBubba
May 30, 2008 12:10 AM | Link to this
Well, that was kind of weird, some one posting with my name.
Actually, I was off in the wilderness antagonizing some of my real friends.
El Bubba