Wayne K Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 (edited) I was sitting in the front room last night watching the great Christmas light fight show and at about 10:33 I heard a hell of a noise outside. I got up and rushed to the front door to see the front half of my display was all over the street and sidewalk. as I looked farther to the north I see a pickup truck in the front of beauty shop next to me and hear him revving the motor up trying to move the truck. Good thing they had big landscape rocks in the front, as that stopped him and he set on top of one of them was just spinning his wheel's. This has been amazing in my small town. I don't do face book, but it sounds like news traveled like wild fire on there. One of the TV stations came out and done a report. They ended up taking the guy to jail. Here is the link to the story. https://www.21alivenews.com/2023/12/04/mad-upset-man-rebuilding-churubusco-christmas-display-following-vandalism/ Edited December 5, 2023 by Wayne K 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 Man, that SUCKS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMeBobO Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 Yikes I hope you are able to rebuild! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDucks Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 There are not places hot enough for Grinches like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcktpwrd Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 WOW! sorry to see this happen! Hopefully you can get most of it put back together and running again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 And the driver rots in hell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sysco Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 Wayne had the same thing happen to me about 12 years ago arches, blow molds 10,mini trees, cords and two boxes never caught them about $ 700.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimehc Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 The $4535 Go Fund Me amount is a big help.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 It certainly helps with the financial part of it, but how many hours of Wayne's time will this cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne K Posted December 6, 2023 Author Share Posted December 6, 2023 Time is the problem, I work a full time job, so it is after work and weekend stuff. I did tell them I was going to take some vacations days next week and see what I can get going. The big problem is with the electrical. I had harnesses made up for the different elements and it got all of them. I had an insurance adjuster here yesterday and he looked things over and I told him that everything from this point out was junk and not usable. he proceeds to say some of those cords are probably ok and I replied back and said all one of them needs is a small punture in there that you can't see and then I have GFI problems. His standard saying was get me estimates. I finally said I am starting to order stuff and I am ordering stuff before I take time to get estimates on stuff. I didn't know about the gofund me thing until the tv station told me about it. That is power in the community and tells me people like the display. It totaly blowed my mind what it got up to. He is still in jail awaiting and I think the court date is Thursday and I suspect he won't be leaving anytime soon. And the sad part of it is that he lives on the other side of my street and the next block down. Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mica Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Wow!such a shame, I truly don't think people have a clue, what in involved both financially and physically to set things up. I did this for the first time this year. I spent about 13 months on setting up props controllers, sequences etc. I love the reactions and joy it has provided. I feel very sad for you and your community. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimehc Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Don't need estimates - just hand him the Receipts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDucks Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Nit pick'n claims agent. Hire all the work and materials done. (just love how YOUR efforts are of no value when claims time comes 😡) Have a video ready of it working and that is the required target to call the claim satisfied. If needed, let on that you know folk who can spell Lawyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgrant Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 We all feel your pain. True shame and pray you can get it going again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sysco Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 you will have to have receipts for every thing from the day you bought them and replacement cost is another sticker %%%%% been there, don't know what insurance is like in the US, hope you recover cost, time spent does not count Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Laff Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Wayne i have 6 HDPE archs with 2811 strips if you want them you can have them . email lafffamily@comcast.net Burbank Il not to far from you Good luck Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne K Posted December 7, 2023 Author Share Posted December 7, 2023 Thanks guys for the thoughts and info. I have gotten a lot of stuff ordered and awaiting on it to get here. I keep a lot of extra led strings, wire, plugs, etc for small repairs or change outs, but not enough for this repair. Any how we are plugging away at getting things done. Cleaned the yard up last night. 14 hours ago, Dennis Laff said: Wayne i have 6 HDPE archs with 2811 strips if you want them you can have them . email lafffamily@comcast.net Burbank Il not to far from you Good luck Dennis Thanks for the offer Dennis, I greatly appreciate it. But I already have 2 new arches built and will have stuff to do the other 3 later today. Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Now I'm glad that all of the houses on my street (including mine) have a tree planted by the city in 1970 in the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightningrod4life Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Sorry to hear you have to go through a major rebuild due to someone else's negligence. From the short clips in the news video, it looks like you have quite the display! Hope you can rebuild and post some 2023 videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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