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Mrplow123
11-28-2007, 01:52 AM
So I have my display running great now, and I have had alot of visitors so far, in less than a week. I watch them on my security camera's most of the time. I realized if I go out side when someone is watching the show, they usually drive away really fast. They must not like being watched while watching my show.

I was sitting in my office tonight working on something and had the security cameras up on my second monitor. I notice a car sitting in front of my house just accross the street. When my Mega tree lit up all gold, the light illuminated the car and it was clear it was a police car. First thing popped into my mind was "uh oh, there must be a problem". Then less than a minute later another officer drove up. Now I am thinking that maybe my out door speakers are too loud and someone complained. So I decided to go out side to make sure everything was ok. One of the officers yells out the windows of his patrol car "nice work, it looks great". So I walk over to the car and start chatting with him, he asked all the normal questions, "how did you do it?", "how did you get it to work through the radio?" Then he tells me that he just text messaged all of the other on duty police officers my address and I would probably be seeing more of them.

So we finally go back in the house, over the next 45 minutes a tottal of 7 officers came by, at one point I had 3 police cars in front of my house. At another point a family was in front of the house in a Suburban enjoying the show, and then a police car pulled up, followed by another. The Suburban promptly departed. They probably thought they were in trouble for stopping in the street.

So needless to say I feel safer tonight, I doubt anyone will mess with my display with all of the police action around here.

This is starting off to be the best year yet. Now if I can just get those news reporters over here with their cameras and helicopters.

Anarchtica
11-28-2007, 02:11 AM
Hahaha, awesome story!

biffklg
11-28-2007, 08:30 AM
I have not had much traffic at all, but the local news paper is writing up a stroy and will be here tonight for a photo shoot, hopefully that will pick things up a bit. My donations box out front for the local food pantry has been empty almost every night!

NogginBoink
11-28-2007, 10:01 AM
Niiiiiiiiiiice. Tell 'em you're worried about vandals and ask if they could drop by a few times a night!

xmus
11-28-2007, 12:27 PM
You should play, "police stop my car" :)
with a lot of red and blue lights!

Mrplow123
12-12-2007, 12:23 AM
I am going to have to do a special song for the cops next year. Just about every night, since the lights went on, atleast 1 cop comes by to see the show. Tonight we had 2 in the parking lot accross the street watching, and then a third showed up. I went out and talked to them, and it turns out that not only are they all taking turns "patroling" my street, my house is now part of their nightly breifing. For the last week my house has come up in their briefing, and everyone wants to come see it.

So my street is pretty safe right now. LOL

daviddth
12-12-2007, 09:57 AM
Thats cool. I have had one police car (that I have seen) stop by and watch the show. My biggest "Shock" was seing a set of lights on the monitor, walking out with the basket of candy canes and seeing a bus full of school kids sitting out the front!

Apparently they had left from south NSW at lunchtime that day, and experienced a few mechanical problems in Sydney on their way to Coonabarrabran. As they came into town the driver heard about 2 sets of lights in town so he asked the kids if they wanted to stop, and they did. They sat and watched for about 15 mins before they left.

Josh
12-12-2007, 12:04 PM
You should play, "police stop my car" :)
with a lot of red and blue lights!

i actually have this song programed, and have red,white, and blue lights that flash while the song plays.... i also have a cop a block away who stopped by while i was outside one day

I normally dont get alot of cars stopped, just slow down, or loop the block