Serves you right, grumbled TheEditor when we told it** about the destroyed Christmas lighting out front. Atheists are not supposed to like Christmas anyway.
That's not fair, you know that. Hindu friends of mine get a Christmas tree every year, and man, do they deck it out. So, stop bitching about a string of LEDs.
Well, it is based on the old Nordic festival of lights, and the Roman Saturnalia, and those folks were not Christian either.
Thank you.
Only because it is Christmas time. And I won't hold it against you that you made fun of the war on Christmas.
Yesterday, not even twenty four hours after we put up a nice, long string of LED lighting out front, someone cut the power cord. The light is one of those solar deals, a panel charges a battery, so no danger of getting electrocuted.
The weird thing about it is that the cord was cut a few inches from the panel, so the perp had to climb on top of the garage make his way halfway across and snip. He could easily have stolen the installation, it weighs next to nothing, and the panel is just stuck into a hole in the center of a stone.
It appears, the perp has some sort of justification for the act, it looks like a sort of message sending thing.
What that could be?
No idea. We don't have any enemies around here that we know of. Except for an elderly woman whose impeccable German cleaning standards we have not been able to meet recently, nothing comes to mind. She certainly cannot climb safely.
Could it be that someone does not like "the Americans" in town and felt that the release of the torture report was an opportunity to send a message? No, we are not that important, and we think we are "good" Americans anyway.
It is much more likely that some drunk or stoned kids were attracted to the shiny object and were in the mood to mess with people.
The cord can be mended, but we do not feel like putting it up again. That should please TheEditor because of its anti-atheist-Christmas stance.
We will not contribute to accurate German crime statistics by reporting the incident.
** TheEditor insists on full gender neutrality, hence the it.
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