Sigh. CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ‘OFFEND NEIGHBOURS’
A MOTHER was told to remove her Christmas lights – in case they offended non-Christian neighbours.
Dorothy Glenn decorates her home with illuminations every year, including a giant tree and a 4ft Santa.
But this year she was stunned when a housing association worker called at her house and told her that the decorations she was displaying might be offending her neighbours.
The mother of three said at her home in South Shields, Tyneside: “I put the lights up in the first week of November and then recently a uniformed housing worker was outside and it looked like he was counting my decorations.
“When I went outside he said that the lights were ‘offensive to the community.’
Mrs. Glenn told them to bugger off (the story is from England, of course), and that the lights would stay up. And then the people in her community rallied to her cause, people of all faiths, and the council backed off and rescinded their PC demand. So, for a change, this story ends on a happy note, but, was it really necessary to attempt to ban the lights in the first place?
