Neighbors' floodlight leads to hilarious exchange of emails

[KurtNYC]

This David guy is GD material...

(I would copy part of it but it is one long image file and summarizing this wouldn't do it justice.)

http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vrw3r

[truebluegreen]

1. Austria! heehee nt

[randome]

2. Hilarious!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[GeorgeGist]

3. God I wish I could write like than.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. That is a treasure.

His neighbor sounds like a Tea Party member.

[Orrex]

5. Hmm...

Seems a bit staged to me, like those "Stay Home Daddy Post-It Note" montages.

[randome]

6. To me, too. But still fun to read!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[SalviaBlue]

7. Hilarious!!

[Coyotl]

8. "She would probably have to get a third job" LOL.

[SidDithers]

9. Here's his website...

http://www.27bslash6.com/index.html

IMO, along with the floodlight, these are his 2 best ones:

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html



Sid

[KurtNYC]

10. Thanks for those - reminds me of the books: "Letters from a Nut"

http://www.tedlnancy.com/lettersfromanut.php

[11 Bravo]

27. Thanks a lot! 45 minutes ago I clicked on the link to his website. Now I'm fucking addicted, ...

and it's your fault! I was barely able to tear myself away long enough to come back and type this.

[Historic NY]

28. OMG. this guy is a teasure............

[Paulie]

31. The photos with the Mac Pro and accessories

http://www.27bslash6.com/jason.html

[FourScore]

11. I wish the Australian guy were my neighbor. He's hysterical! n/t

[PeaceNikki]

12. That site needs to credit David Thorne's site.

http://www.27bslash6.com/

That is his original material. http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html

[stranger81]

20. This guy's website is comedy gold . . . . thanks for posting the link!!

My favorite so far is the bit about punching Daryl in his fat head:

http://www.27bslash6.com/easter.html

[PeaceNikki]

21. You could (and might) spend all day there. It's beautiful.

You're welcome. I get really annoyed when other sites use his material without linking back to his site.

[genxlib]

30. Worth a visit

I was going to post that link as well.

My wife discovered him several years ago. She even bought his books.

Funny stuff

[Aerows]

13. "Our primary spoken language is screaming"

[arely staircase]

14. awesome nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

15. "retaliatory garden lighting"

I can relate, *David*, only I'm battling my neighbors' obnoxious lights with Japanese Cedars (that aren't growing fast enough)!

[Xithras]

18. I had a friend deal with this brilliantly.

He had a neighbor who pulled the same thing, pointing several blindingly bright lights straight at his house. Even worse, they were connected to motion sensors that were so sensitive that they'd turn on every time an ant fart moved a blade of grass. After weeks of complaining, and weeks of hearing the neighbor say "It's just light, go buy some curtains", he solved it brilliantly.

Rather than take the guy to court, he borrowed a laser light show machine from someone and mounted it on his house...connected to a timer that turned it on randomly and pointed STRAIGHT at his neighbors house. When his neighbor complained about the laser "turning his house green every time it turned on", my friend told him that he'd become concerned about his properties security...since the neighbors security light was constantly turning on, there was obviously a security threat, and he believed that lasers would be more intimidating to criminals than floods. After all, no neighbor would be that rude to another neighbor unless there was a REAL security threat, right? Besides, it was "just light", and he could just close his curtains if it bothered him.

The neighbor put in dimmer bulbs, pointed them downward, and reset the sensitivity on his sensors. His point was made.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

22. Awesome, I need that for the jerk behind me.

The one set of neighbors who live diagonally behind me are quite nice. I haven't mentioned it yet, mainly because their basement is teen central and I know if the lights are redirected, they'll likely be moved back at some point. I figure two more years and I'll be good to go with the shrubs, but I may cave and extend my next-door neighbors' wood fence about 8 feet.

The neighbor behind me is a FLAMING asshole -- we got into it over his humongous, messy, half-dead Leyland cypress. He has a really attractive English lamp-post in his backyard, but has recently added some sort of blinding LED light. I won't even bother asking him. A monster golden euonymus blocks some of it out, and the Japanese privet are growing fast and should block out the rest by the end of this summer.

First world problems, I realize, but geez. Do people not think?!

[glowing]

16. Way too funny... LOL

[flamingdem]

17. This is brilliant

[malaise]

19. Damn that was hysterically funny

Thanks for this

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. lol

[Atman]

24. Something very similar to this happend down the street from me.

One day we drove by a neighbor's house and there was a huge green tarp strung from the trees across the driveway. Spray painted on it in garish orange letters was "THANKS FOR THE LIGHT SHOW!"

I didn't figure it out until driving by one night...the neighbor across the street had installed bright "security" spotlights, pointed right up the other guy's driveway toward his house. The tarp hung for nearly a year until weather had made it so tattered they had to take it down. He actually went so far as to move his driveway to the other side of his house (at considerable expense, I might imagine), and built a large stockade fence across his front yard.

I have no idea what battles went on between these two during this span of time, but the guy with the security light left it on 24/7. I guess out of spite, he re-directed one so it was directly pointing at his neighbor's windows.

This Christmas, the tarp guy hung big wooden cut-outs of Santa and Mrs. Claus on the front of his new fence, right across from light guy's driveway, so they were lit up by his spotlights. He also put big cartoon speech balloons over their heads. Santa was saying "Merry Christmas to All!" and Mrs. Claus was saying "And Happy New Year! Except for one of you."

[raven mad]

25. It's also viral on Facebook -

"Last night, with my curtains closed and bedside light off, I read a book. Wearing sunglasses. Under a blanket.

Having been through a similar episode (it would shine through the front window directly onto the television!), I have to admit to many giggles.

[Jimbo S]

26. The very reason why I own a condo

Don't have to deal with this stuff.

[Initech]

29. Austria? No way!

[1000words]

32. Frankly, I'm surprised the Aussie wasn't shot.