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<\/p>\nWhat do you get when you cross crabby New Jersey-ians with 70,000 bulb Christmas light display? If you guessed a $75,000 fine, you guessed right!<\/p>\n
In the Old Bridge community in New Jersey, one particular Christmas enthusiast is making the naughty list. Tom Apruzzi, the aforementioned enthusiast, has been creating a light display of epic proportions for 15 years. He\u2019s also likely been the least favorite neighbor for just as long. <\/p>\n
The automated display in Apruzzi\u2019s front yard synchronizes to music from speakers in the yard and has been known to attract up to 1,000 spectators a night. <\/p>\n
Talk about a traffic jam.<\/p>\n
In November, the Apruzzi family was given the go-ahead to proceed with their light display with no stipulations or clauses. <\/p>\n
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However, now the New Jersey Township is telling Apruzzi that if he wants to keep his display going, he will need to pay $2,000 a day, a steep price for some yuletide cheer.<\/p>\n
That mandatory $2,000 covers police security at the DIY light show. But it\u2019s not a standard police security rate, it is for officer overtime for the evening shift, moveable lamp posts to illuminate the regularly suburban 24-foot-wide street and the fuel it will take to run said lampposts. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s also an additional $1,000 a night fee for shuttling light lookers to the display from a local school.<\/p>\n
In years past, auxiliary officers — who were not trained in crowd control — kept an eye on the situation at no charge, but the Santa\u2019s Bootstrap efforts won\u2019t work this year as crowd attendance is expected to best years past.<\/p>\n
Apruzzi has called the whole ordeal \u201cbureaucratic baloney\u201d and a pal of his started a gofundme campaign on behalf of Apruzzi to help pay the impending fines.<\/p>\n
‘Tis the season for \u201cbureaucratic baloney,\u201d fa la la la la la la la la.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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