Boyfriend killed hanging holiday lights planned for Christmastime proposal
She bent in the rain, turning the dial, but the Christmas lights wouldn’t come on.
Lindsay Schrama doesn’t know how to adjust the timer. These lights begin each night in her yard among the candy canes, the inflatable elves — and the footprint in the mud: his last step.
It’s where her 34-year-old south county neighbor was killed hanging Christmas lights last week.
Jason Byrnes was raising an extension ladder and hit the power line above her home in North Beach.
He was building a “winter wonderland,” he told friends, for two women in his life: his 4-year-old daughter, Lilly, and the girlfriend he wanted to marry.
He planned to propose beneath those lights.
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sigh....
I had a cousin who didn't make a curve Christmas morning. He was on his way home from a party. His wife was a nurse and when she was coming home from her night shift she saw the accident down a road.
There were emergency vehicles there so she kept going. She stopped at her brother's house, but he had been called to the scene to help the officers identify the driver. They thought it was my cousin but they wanted to be sure. Her brother recognized his hands. It was not a happy holiday.
Christmas can suck sometimes.
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