A Pennsylvania
city is trying to force a man to tone down the spotlights that neighbors say he
uses at all hours to protect his home from "aliens."
Neighbors in the
Virginia Road area of Hermitage said Arthur Brown, 78, shines the spotlights
outside his foil-wrapped house at all hours of the day and night because he is
afraid of extra-terrestrial attacks.
"Over the
years he's become a real problem. He has a lot of issues fearing aliens,"
Nancy Raich, Brown's across the street neighbor, said.
Raich, 72, said
she wants to sell her house and buy a condo, but she can't get anyone
interested in her property because of the spectacle across the street.
"Who wants
to buy my house? A nice decent house, garages, acreage in Hermitage, a nice
place to live, when this yahoo across the street decides he wants to shine
lights on me?" Raich said.
"I've had a
lot of nice couples come and look at my house," she said. "You can't
get a second look until that's cleaned up."
A judge ordered
Brown to take down the lights earlier this year, imposing a $500-per-day fine
if he continued to shine his spotlights late into the night. Officials said he
has not complied and now owes more than $20,000.
The city said it
has now filed a petition to get an injunction to have Brown's lights removed.
"It's a
violation of the city's zoning ordinance to have excess lighting that adversely
affects neighboring properties," Hermitage City Manager Gary Hinkson said.
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