One man's crowning achievement - a massive new top to his Christmas display draws wrath

Remaking a spectacle
One man's crowning achievement - a massive new top to his Christmas display - is drawing the wrath of city inspectors and some neighbors

By Tania deLuzuriaga
Globe Staff / November 7, 2007

Every year, the decorations and lights go up. And every year the display is more outlandish. Through it all, Dominic Luberto's neighbors have lived with traffic, glare, and fears of electrical fire created by the tens of thousands of Christmas lights used to turn his $1.7 million Arborway house into a winter wonderland.
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Now they have a new worry: The 10-foot-high, 650-pound gold-colored crown he has placed on top of his slate-roofed, three-story, Tudor-style castle.

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He and a cousin then covered the planks in plastic, painted it gold, and attached wreaths, light-up snowflakes, and huge ornaments. Light-covered balls 2 1/2 feet in diameter sit atop each of the six points of the crown, which is attached to the house with several black and red ropes. The whole process took 46 days.

"I've been wanting to do this a long time," he said. "It's for the king of kings, Jesus. If he wasn't born, there wouldn't be Christmas."

The crown is the latest addition to Luberto's annual Christmas spectacle, which features hundreds of thousands of lights, inflatable characters, and a reindeer and sleigh that appear to be flying.


Luberto has constructed a 10-foot-high, 650-pound crown, which the city contends is a structure that requires a permit. (John Tluamcki/ Globe Staff)

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Or is it about ostentation? How many hungry people could he feed with what this is costing? Don't forget the electricity used. Aren't we supposed to be reducing our energy consumption?

he'll find Jay-Zuss!

There is a family in my community who has glaring lights and outlandish displays for every holiday. I don't know how they afford the electricity bills or where they store all the stuff between holidays.

During the Christmas season, we often take visiting friends or family on a drive past that house. It is always breathtaking, and not in a good way. All the holiday displays include noise, too. There are Christmas carols, ghoulish Halloween noises, annoying Easter songs, etc., etc. Neighbors have had an ordinance passed that requires certain wattages of holiday displays to be turned down or off after 10 p.m.

The family has gotten the message, and toned things down over the last few years. They are nice people. Decorating every surface is just their hobby.

delusion of our time.

Doing something in the name of some great socially accepted figure or ethic.

If we do it for "fill in the blank" the sheeple will simply smile and say "how nice" as they toddle along on their merry way.

After all,,, is this not the same scam that busholini pulled on us - and continues to pull on us in Iraq?