So basically he had a very nice display up for the holidays every year and his neighbor thought she could force him to turn it off. When her bullying didn’t work she got the town involved and had him shut down and this is the result. Seems like the problem they are trying to identify is THEM and not Bill.🤷🏿♂️
No, basically he had an over the top display, a neighbor asked to tune it down and he went mental. Actually mental. Doing shit like that for 30 years is not NORMAL.
@johnlocke445 actually if the display was to bright and loud then he was violating his neighbors right to peace and quiet after a certain time. Also if traffic made it to difficult for is Neighbors to get into their home then that is another violation right there. Just because someone is claiming that he was doing this for a children's hospital charity event does not give him the right to inconvenience his neighbors with the extra traffic and noise.
or or or or! wonder how much money he could’ve donated instead of spending it all on torturing his neighbors who asked him a reasonable request 🤷♀️ if it was that simple for him to switch, then he’s not ok.
I get that. But he could atleast take down the signs. Very rude to have the deceased wife’s one there. Also, surely something isn’t right with him as he’s kept it up for 6 years? Not saying the other family doesn’t have problems too.
Walter Brown the video only says that the woman neighbor asked him to "tone it down". It does t say any of the things you said. Where did you get that info?
I don't buy it. For a man to go from loving Christmas to waging war on his neighbors, something else happened besides "tone it down" one Thanksgiving dinner had to happen.
Apparently Pam tried to sue Bill, and back when Bill was normal he had a donation box, which apparently had money stolen out of it. If you look up Bill Ansell you can get some interesting context to this situation.
Yeah. We aren’t hearing his side of the story. Her husband wouldn’t even back her up. Or stick around. Nobody addressed the sign about the neighbor thief either. There’s more to this story than what little we got.
Sherri H lol im gonna guess that she was whining about it constantly and her husband couldn’t stand it anymore. I dated a chick for years who would whine to me about the smallest things and make them huge deals. Just a guess but that how it seems to me😂😂😂
Sounds like they had problems before this guy came into play. If all these neighbors have a problem with this guy, then why not pool all their resources and buy his house out at a nice premium. Or better yet, offer heartfelt apologies for what they did to him. Cant imagine what all these neighbors did to screw this guy over so bad he had to retaliate like this....
Jason Rosner- Bass You know, I heard this guy had beautiful displays and was collecting donations for a local children's hospital before he got viciously assaulted by his neighbors. Apparently, they didn't like the fact that all his displays were causing traffic in the neighborhood. Ugh 😑
We used to drive over to see the display every year. It was beautiful. What the neighbors and 20/20 conveniently chose to leave out of their 'story' was that he collected donations, not for himself, but for children's charities. There was a person dressed as Santa Claus stationed at the peak of the circle accepting donations, and people gladly gave for the children. He started putting the display together in August, dedicating four to five months to creating a spectacular holiday light show. It may have been an inconvenience to the neighbors for a few weeks, but because of their small mindedness and lack of thinking of anything else but themselves, they now have a year long display that reflects their callousness right back in their faces. To have all that goodwill ripped out from under you must have been devastating to Mr. Ansell. And 20/20 should be ashamed of themselves for their shoddy, half assed reporting.
I get what you're saying, but instead of choosing to be so childish he could've tried to a different approach so his neighbors wouldn't be so bothered. Now the fact that he has the signs and other displays is not that big of an issue.....it is an issue when he tries blinding his neighbors with those bright lights and makes loud noises in the middle of the night to try to disturb their sleep.
@@alwaysbekind6226 but I doubt the neighbors where as nice and meek as they are claiming im sure there was a large portion of harassment on there behalf
@@burpostockings yesss it wasnt just one comment i bet they said stuff to him all the time and now hes getting even!! Pam is nuts shes blaming him for her divorce i think she started it all!!
Alpengeist Maxwell how? why is anyone telling someone to turn down their Christmas lights, let someone has as much Christmas joy as they fucking want on the property they pay taxes for. If the neighbors don’t like it close the god damn curtains while you eat dinner tf people are so annoying. They were just jealous of his display and wanted to put him down.
@@sarabrant723 Correct. They SUED HIM IN COURT and the Township forced him to take down his original, nice Christmas decorations. But of course, ABC News isn't going to tell that part of the story.
Bill’s house was part of my Christmas traditions. These neighbors ruined it for everyone around Pittsburgh. I hope they’re happy. And shame on you, 20/20 for not telling viewers everything Bill did for the community.
@kis6318 Unfortunately no. He doesn’t do them anymore. His decorations raised money for sick children. His neighbors should have just gotten black out curtains and sucked it up for a month every year.
Lol she told her husband to do something cuz he almost hit her with his car, and if the cops can't do anything what makes her think her husband can?! It ain't that man's fault her marriage ended.
Uhmm.. Did you miss the part, where the neighbour had kindly asked him to turn down the music. You must have a small mind like this lunatic. He obviously took a small gesture to the heart.
Maybe this Pam woman complained about Bill so much and nagged her husband to do something about it so much her husband got tired of hearing about it and left then she blames bill for her problems/ divorce sounds like a classic case of narcissism
My friends now live across as the street from him and I drive by almost every day. My friends have a great relationship with him because they aren’t involved in the feud. There is very bad blood between him and the old neighbors. Definitely a bitter two-sided story.
Do a little research. The neighbors started it. They complained bitterly and incessantly about the traffic and parking, because people used to drive through there to look at Bill's Christmas display. Pam's husband probably told her that she started it, so she would have to live with it...
@@ibelieve7381 damn! I hope not. In their defense, there was a lot of crazy traffic to see his lights, but they needed to accept it or move. They act like they never had any real adversity in life.
I live right near this house, and it did not start out this way. Colloquial story-My family moved to Pittsburgh in 1996 and this house was incredible…our first Christmas here my dad took us to see the amazing display. Driving by the house was a holiday tradition for many families; ppl looked forward to it each year. Ppl would leave donations to help w the Duquesne light bill…the community loved it. Then some neighbors complained so much about the traffic and whatnot that the township made him stop (via fines, I think?). It broke his heart and soul-this man lived for this. Then the display became what it did. I haven’t been by in years-this video is seven years old so I’m not sure if it’s still there. So sad-just all of it.
Now it makes sense ... Thank you for the context. Bill, if you do read these posts. God Bless you and I sincerely hope you can move on and find the Christmas spirit that you once had. Best wishes to all of the residents and Bill too in 2022.
Mr. McCann. Certainly her divorce should not be attributed to anyone besides herself and her ex-husband. However, as this story was presented, this gentleman seems to have some sort of unresolved issues that most likely have nothing to do with his neighbors.
Other post said she started a petition to take the nice one down and the court fees cost him 200k... maybe he should have just taken it down in the first place, doesn't seem that is helping. But at the same time "I lauched a campaign that put this guy in serious debt because I didn't like his lights that were up a few months and it caused a war... defend me! Defend me!
SO one of the families ask him to turn down the light show during dinner, and this is his reaction? I feel like there's a bit more to the story than what the neighbors are telling us.
Torture is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim. Well he clearly knows what he's doing and since he's not stopping and has eluded to a past event its clear that the man is seeking personal satisfaction from it so yeah it is torture.
I live near Bill. My wife grew up one street away from Bill. Bill had the most fantastic Christmas displays, and people would drive by just to see it. He had a collection box and people would donate money to the charity that Bill gave all the money to every year for many years. that all changed when the neighbors started complaining about the traffic jams of cars that drove on their street to see Bill‘s beautiful Christmas displays. They brought in thousands of donated dollars to charity… this report is painting bill as being the bad guy. But the neighbors all ganged up on him to try to get him to stop the Christmas display. They got the law on him. what has happened since, can only be answered by the phrase, no good deed goes unpunished..
I kinda get it. His house is in the center of a circle neighborhood. So his lights woupda been full blast shining into some part of everyone elses home
This could be a movie. Such a plot twist when you find out that he used to have really cool decorations. Dude trolled so hard he ruined Pam's marriage.
Pam definitely ruined Pam's marriage. She said herself she was nagging her husband every day when he got home cause her bored ass was causing problems with the neighbor all day.
He was being rather disruptive himself. That "display" was an eyesore. The neighbors had a right to complain. I have a neighbor who year round has obnoxious displays "celebrating" just about everything. I thought it was funny at first, but started to get old. She was finally told she had to tone it down. It's still really bad, and I'm sure it's affecting housing prices. She doesn't care, because she's old and her place was long paid for.
It seems the guy hated his neighbors. He seems to be an angry grumpy man who needs to get laid. He does not even have a family, so he disregards other people's privacy and peaceful living. Seems the hate is from the guy who is being an ass!! Waaah waaah waaah, so the neighbors told him to tone it down and he threw a tantrum!! Grow the fuck up!!
Jan Juan He had a family-the photo in the video. Also someone mentioned they researched it and he lost visitation of his kids because his wife(ex) found out he molested them. He’s just a horrible person. Most people who say ‘it’s not against the law,it’s my right.’ especially with the attitude he did are bad people,I know from plenty of experience of being around those people.
Did anyone try apologizing to this man??? There is obvious deep animosity ... I am just surprised that this level of hatred has gone on for such a long time. No one wins in this situation ... Everyone is miserable and that is very sad, especially around Christmas. I hope that things change for all of the residents and for Bill Ansell too and right soon. A belated Merry Christmas to you all and I sincerely hope 2022 is a much better year for all of you. Best Regards, Alex.
Ohhhhh ok…that makes sense now. I’m totally on Bill’s side. Those neighbors are horrible! I hope he keeps that display coming for years to come. We all love you Bill!
If it's too bright. Buy some black out curtains. As for any noise from traffic, get used to it. Where I live, every Friday night during Football season the school is actually setting off cannons (the sound). And I'm no where near the school and their fireworks light up the sky so much it looks like lightning in the distance. Then come Saturday, the racetrack starts and if you're super quiet, you can hear the thrum of the engines while inside. If it's not on your property and you don't like it, too bad. And even so where I live, few days after Thanksgiving I urged my husband to get the Christmas lights out and on, cause our street was dark. The majority of the people who did put out their lights moved. Now that our bill situation is better, I have "plans" next year for Christmas lights.
He was never the weirdo, pam was just crazy and turned him into a mad man. From what i understand bill collected money for childrens hospital with his old light shows before pam ruined everything.
Shame iz dank is it crazy to not want to have to wait a half hour to get in your driveway every night or have music blasted at full volume so you can't hear dinner conversations?
@@Candorsmayhem it wasnt a concern of music, as she was more concerned by the light itself. Did you not watch the video? Youre as bad as pam if you think hes in the wrong heartless fuck.
So for any of you who don't really understand... This video starts out telling about the fantastic Christmas light displays of a quaint suburb, and then shifts to Villifying one man. Go back to the beginning- the fantastic Christmas displays... Bill is an Electrician... and prior to what you see in this video, was one of the most fantastic Christmas displays on the PLANET. Christmas light displays require technical talent and skill. The villan here, is the neighborhood: They didn't like all the cars driving through to see the display, so They attacked BILL. They didn't like the season's cheer... all the cars driving by during the Christmas season. They did everything they could to treat him really bad, and this is what happens when people decide to gang up on a neighbor.
And it led to her divorce!🤣 he wouldn’t stick up for me!!! The ex husband is the smartest person on the block. I didn’t see his perspective on the problem but it seems like the whole neighborhood is paying for this woman’s big mouth.
The lesson for all today is thus: Narcissists are toxic, kids. They make belladonna and foxglove (aka two "deadly beauties" in the plant realm) positively fantastic to be around. 😜
I don't understand what she went over to tell him to tone it down. What needed to be toned down? And if she had company, what was stopping her from enjoying her company?
Pam Heck deserves everything she gets. “Stand up for me, do something!” All she had to do, is apologize and shut her mouth. Now she’s started a war she can’t finish and she wants someone else to do the heavy lifting. Sorry Pam! You started this, no deal with it.
"Stand up for me." She played that card once too often and the reality is long before her husband walked out of the door, emotionally, he had already left her.
the guy is definitely extreme but yeah, i can't imagine it all started because she knocked on his door one day. it would have been a pretty interesting story if we could have heard from her husband and bill too.
"I would say, why don't you stand up for me".? "Why won't you do something".? Well at a guess, I'd say it's probably because you'd been getting him into fights that you started with your unchecked Karenicity your whole marriage and he was finally sick of your shite.!
Its all fun & games until there is a spotlight shining in your windows and signs with nasty messages directed at you by name. To post something suggesting his neighbor killed his wife a day after she passed away is heartless & classless. So what if ONE of all his neighbors didnt jump for joy at his Christmas display. The wacky display he has now is harmless...though it makes his property look like a dump. Its the going overboard to personally attack, turn spot lights on their homes, banging on shit in the middle of the night... that takes this whole thing overboard. Is the guy some kind of narcissist? They didnt fall all over him with gratitude and appreciation for his holiday display so now forever more he's gonna be an asshat? All he had to do was say....sorry not sorry.....and keep on with his tradition. Instead, he is throwing a years long temper tantrum. What a bafoon. How do you live day in and day out for years with that kind of rage in your gut? People in the comments call B.S. at Pams assertation that this conflict contributed to her divorce. Well I also call B.S. on all this hate & discontent Bill is spewing being entirely about his annual holiday display. This guy is mentally ill.
@@KRoseB Idiot! They sued him for YEARS over his nice, Christmas display; and constantly harassed him for over TEN YEARS before the Township ordered him to take the original display down. Understand that the neighbors and town officials BULLIED him for a long time before it got to this point, and in the end, he had to spend over $200,000 in legal fees all while being bullied and harassed! The only narcissist for miles around is YOU for believe the one-sided fake news story.
Huh?!?! I thought the story would be so much more severe and worse than that. I thought maybe his entire family was killed on Christmas and he was taking his anger and depression out.
I am sure it was constant loud same music over and over and over and over and over again. I had a neighbor down the street that played gospel music all day 24/7 over and over and over again couldn't go outside and enjoy your peaceful day have coffee on the porch nothing anymore. It is a form of torture..
Exactly. We are only hearing one side of the story here. That report is complete bias. Looks like the dude loved Christmas. Those neighbors probably put in complaint after complaint on his original display. They pushed to hard and he pushed back. Nosey fucking neighbors are the worst. I've dealt with them many a time and most of the time they end up leaving me alone due to the fact that I don't give a fuck, it's my property.
There is no way that lady is being truthful. I doubt she politely asked anything and then blaming her neighbor for her failed marriage. 🤣🤣🤣 No lady, people just don't like you. This is all your fault.
He had a beautiful display . He received donations for the children’s hospital . The neighbors were mad at him bc of traffic. He has no children and this was his way of spreading joy. So I guess these neighbors reap what they sow
lovexsqualor I live in a city . I don’t mind traffic. He gave to charity. It’s a month out f the year. Get over it. Now he has become petty . His right . His property . His taxes. I find this hysterical. Why don’t his neighbors donate money to the children’s hospital in his name and have peace .
@@shop4vintageclothing386 his property, yes, but the flood lights aiming to their neighbors affect outside his property, the same goes for the noise in the middle of the night, the dumb laidy may have started it, but what did they do? they sue him over it? they just ask him to tone it down a little and in response the guy harrasthem, and tortures them the whole year. Not the decorations but the constant noise in the middle of the night it can be considered a form of torture. It wouldnt be strange if one of them snaped and killed the guy one day
txmack1 whole story or not, it’s all over stupid decorations. I don’t think that’s a good enough fucking reason to insult someone’s dead wife the day after she died.
Except the people who own the homes would have to actually not only have to accept the offer but they would have to be able to pay off their home loans and I have a feeling the value of the houses aren't even going to break even with the loans.
My heart goes out to this guy. He was obviously someone who got a little pride and joy out of his beautiful displays and his neighbors had to ruin it for him. I'm sure nosey Pam asking him once to tone it down didnt do it. She was probably so nasty to him like a self entitled spoiled brat. That's why her husband left. He probably didn't care about the neighbors display, but she was probably so demanding. And the fact that she managed to get the whole town against him. I mean, she really brought this man down to the lowest point. It's really hard to blame him for his current state.
@J 0 E L She does have the right to ask. I'm not denying that. But just by looking at her demeanor, she probably wasn't nice to him and it escalated to this.
@@Drewless she does. Its called disturbing the peace. But what i got is that she got jealous cause his house was the best on the block and they asked him to tone it down. Id like to hear his side
Yesss I would’ve loved to have him as a neighbor when he was decorating. I would’ve even offer to help him put up the lights. As my granny always said “there’s consequences to everything either good or bad “. And in their case bad.
When u have a toxic neighbour u will know why !! Yes they have their own stories but why put ur bitterness to Others instead of ignoring people who don’t matter to u
@@alexanderbjerkvik to me it just shows that most people in the comment section either A doesn't live next to somebody who does such elaborate displays B don't own a home ( because ironically the guy is making it so the neighbors he hates can't move out by selling or renting the homes) and C are sociopaths because even if this guy at one point was morally right he lost that when gloating about someone's wife's death after they tried to make peace supposably
Politicalandtheologicalstudy First off they said "pies" as in plural so who knows how many the gave him second we don't know how many attempts at making peace their were and if there were other peace offerings but ether way he lost any claim to moral superiority when he gloated over someones wife's death and really what he is doing makes no sense if you think in term of how much he hates his neighbors since now he has ensured he is stuck with them since no real person would move next to that property with its flood lights and next to some one that unstable that they would put up this display and threaten to shoot his neighbors ( which this all stems from seemingly one neighbor asking him to tone down the Christmas display on thanksgiving) for years and also he reduced the property value so low that they can't take the loss they would have to to sell. Where I live those places would sell for 300K-450K easy but with that guy they would be lucky to get 50-75K; granted NJ is more expensive but still there would be one hell of a price drop because of him.
Here's the whole story. He used to put up display for donations for a local children's hospital. They were annoyed by all the traffic and then the neighbors started it. They are the scourge. Not him.
Scott Ravena All this unnecessary kerfuffle over something that was never their business in the first place and they managed to piss all over a children's charitable effort in the bargain? These people are beyond redemption.
Here's the whole story. He got his feelings hurt and he is torturing his neighboors out of chil;dish spite. I seriuosly wish I was his neighbor. I'd burn it down.
Good for him. They try to make him out to be the bad guy but MAYBE IF YOU DIDNT COMPLAIN WHEN HE WAS IN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT you wouldn't have to deal with the same attitude THEY GAVE HIM
I can’t believe someone would tell their neighbor to turn off their Christmas light display so they could enjoy their thanksgiving dinner. Glad I don’t live next door to her.
COLBY CRAWFORD not off, turn it down- imagine that bright light blaring right in a window your dining table is in front of? You aren't thinking things thru
That lady neighbor is delusional that he caused her divorce. Her husband is probably like if you would just shut your mouth and mind your bussiness....
I live in Pittsburgh. This guy was harassed and degraded by his neighbours...as they are the nosey neighbour type....So he fought back and has given them exactly what they deserve....maybe they have learned the neighbourhood is not all about them.... it's about him too. More power to him!!
David Stanton becoming the thing you hated about someone else is a terrible way to be. Pam is divorced and miserably I think he is caught in his own hatred and revenge cycle . He is as trapped as they are and he did this to himself.
Talk about overreaction. How is this guy being hostile or holding anyone " hostage " ? Get over yourself people. if you don't like it just ignore it . These people have a inflated sense of self importance. Leave the guy alone it's his own private property and he has rights. He isn't violent or threatening anyone you people are the ones who started antagonizing him .
The noise and lights are beyond just being priggish. Highly likely that's a violation of ordinance. It's certainly uncalled for. That said, the signs and stuff? Have a day, fellah. Some of it is humorous, even.
Clueless. He's shining floodlights into their homes at night, he's putting up personalised threatening signs in his yard with the aim of frightening people, he's hammering at 3 am when people are sleeping to delberately wake them up. He's deliberately leaving obscene trash in his yard to lower house values in the neighborhood. If this was happening to you and your family you wouldn't be so blaise about it when it's been happening 24/7 for YEARS.
In a way this is kinda funny. He shouldn’t be saying mean things about the neighbors but Pam had no business telling that man to take down the nicer display
He way overdid his house and funny how the liberal supporting him make no mention of his carbon footprint on all that electricity, nor all the plastic junk he keeps in his yard. And frankly they shouldn't have built a house in what looks like a cul-de-sac area.
@@jobrock1079 Ironically I hear more conservatives complaining that liberals arent complaining about what they think liberals should be complaining about. Not everyone who isnt conservative are liberals.
• ItsMrRogue • You'd mess with a person for 6 years because they don't like your decorations. If someone isn't over it by the 1st year they have some major issues.
Listen to these people and their "problems".. snap out of it. Some people are starving and they're complaining about being a prisoner in their home because of decorations! I hope I never have to see such pathetic people again
They started this whole mess to. He's ending it. I think it's about like people painting their fences neon pink when the neighbors complain their fence isn't painted
Sorry, you don't go from "I love Christmas" to "f*** my neighbors" overnight. Let's be super clear there; they had to have said some really nasty stuff over the years to this guy to get him to this point. Also, am I the only one who laughed at the display. Seriously, it was funny.
But when you overreact , you stop being the victim and become the guilty. This happens always. You get mad at some asshole and then the asshole becomes the victim. Just happened to me a few weeks ago. Just don’t overreact.
@@Procyon14 If you guys actually watched the rest of the video, it explains that he was trying to raise money for a childrens hospital with this grand, superb display and he was almost there when he had to take it all down because his neighbors complained, so he repayed them with this.
I laughed so hard. Reminds me of ID's Fear Thy Neighbor, people like Ansell are pushed to their breaking points by people like his neighbors all the time!
Live to ride Ride to live you mind sending a link to that because I couldn’t find anything. And at least learn how to spell the guys name you’re trying to defend for being a piece of shit. Also what names did I call you? Because saying you have a low iq isn’t name calling, and asking my age like I’m acting like a kid when you used lmao multiple times and used two question marks instead of one. Okay buddy
Live to ride Ride to live learn how to type man. There is no space between the end of the sentence and a period. His name is Bill Ansell, you spelled it wrong. You should probably just stop replying because every time you do you make yourself look a little dumber. Unless you’d like to reply with the link to your source.
Live to ride Ride to live And you’re the one who said I was name calling when I did no such thing and then later you call me a funny bastard. So it turns out you have a low IQ and you’re a hypocrite
His was just beautiful looks like he enjoyed having beautiful display of lights. I'm really sorry for him that he left that one neighbor ruin it for him and all the other neighbors. I'm sure he has spend lots of money so everyone to enjoy seeing. But you never know what people are going through. It's a shame that one neighbor said something and he lost it. Hopefully he will come to his senses. .
He should have sold up and bought a house on a main road which was more accessible and he could have kept up the tradition of the display. A small cul-de-sac was never a suitable location for this type of display. It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that the traffic would impede other neighbors from getting in and out of their homes. Unfortunately Ansell has less than half a brain and is wasting years of his life on petty revenge, making himself look like a nut in the process.
@Ren Helene Thanks for posting that link, I read through it & it seems to me that this man kinda "went over the edge" following his divorce & loss of visitation with his daughters & estrangement from them for over 10 years. His exwife accused him of molesting the girls but seems he was never prosecuted or charged with a crime for that, possibly only used as leverage by his ex, otherwise why wasn't he charged. Sad story really, like a descent into madness.
This is not really a Christmas display anymore it is pure harassment. He's threatening their lives he's bringing down there home value and the level of their lives. From his home he is attacking them and then saying don't invade my privacy it's bullshit
I don’t know why she HAD to ask him to “tone it down” while she was eating dinner. Buy some blinds/ drapes. They have the ones that block out all the light. Damn, how hard is it to just do that and deal with it for a month or so ??? Now he’s a real pain in their asses.
He doesn’t call the shots. He is not the mayor of that street. If he went nuclear over a reasonable request, it was never about Christmas and all about his petty self.
@@Koooles what exactly is normal human interactions? From what I've seen this man had Christmas spirt before some lady came over and ruined it of course you feel pitty for a women who's voicing her side of the story let's see you get into a fight with neighbors because you wanted to do something for a local hospital not for his own personal gain and let's be honest if you wanna talk about normal human interaction this lady gives you just that! Lies or at least that's all we can assume since you or me haven't fully experienced this matter so assuming she's lying is as fair as you assuming this man has no normal human interaction and if some lady was being rude to you for quite sometime you'd retaliate maybe not like he would but what exactly did those people do to him to make him change? And what exactly did Pam do to almost "get hit by a car" if Pam was really inoccent her husband who married her would've protected her if he felt like she was really endangered to me this feels like she was playing the victim card to much for him to handle so he left and only when things started to look hopeless for them then they started to be nice? It's a long time to late if you ask me and I would've thrown those pies right back to them but to own your own opion xD
I am convinced that this is the result of mixing busybody, officious neighbors with an admittedly eccentric man who decided to exact a certain measure of revenge after these killjoys destroyed that display he loved so much. I searched online and found the neighbors complained about all kinds of bullshit, such as: - Ansell parts on wrong side of the street (calling the police) - calling the police about leaves blown off on side of street (Ansell argued someone else blew those leaves on his property) -- busybodies complained to such an extent that police patrolled enough, needling him with chickenshit tickets like failing to park within 12 inches of the curb (he parked 16 inches) Furthermore, the spat about Christmas lights started because that Pam Heck neighbor complained that the lights shone into her dining room. But if you google map the address, the properties are distant enough to make that unlikely. Ansell definitely sounds like a strange guy. He had some trouble from not paying child support. But it is pretty obvious he took a lot of joy and pride in this magnificent display, and these busybody neighbors had to intermeddle, and just kept pushing. There needs to be more discussion about that side of the equation. In other words, you reap what you sow!
I want to give him a hug and get those awful people to apologize to him. this is their fault .I bet if they sincerely were sorry for how they treated him and offered to not only help him decorate the next Christmas back to how he used to and offered to help him clean up this mess ,things could go back to normal. he has made his point but this has only escalated because they were so awful to him .I sure wish this relationship could be repaired , but they haven't bothered to try to make it ok with him . Their victim card isn't valid here .
If you even play your music too loud in Bloomington you get a ticket for disturbing the peace or disorderly conduct, but obviously the fines arent even stopping him. He seems like he might need to be put in a mental asylum snd not saying it to be rude or funny but if you feel you have to disturb others so much you obviously have some mental issues. Look all the stress and problems its already caused these people. Its time to get this man help.
Well, if the meaning of hostage is "you are not free to leave," then by making it impossible to sell their homes he is sort of holding them hostage by proxy. Although honestly he seems to have a personal feud with these specific neighbors, so if they all agreed to leave their home's may become sell-able again in the ensuing months.
Those Christmas decorations are hilarious. He used to have jolly decorations, they complained. He did the opposite and they complained. Saying you’re a prisoner in your home cause of your neighbors decorations is seriously reaching.
It’s not just the decorations though. He’s shining extremely bright lights into their homes at all hours of the night purposefully pointed at their windows, blaring loud noises in the middle of the night to wake them up, hanging derogatory signs on his home about them, yelling at them, and more. It’s gone way beyond just some less than jolly decorations. Could the other neighbors have handled the original situation better? Yes. But this kind of a response is insane. Being considerate of your neighbors is part of owning a home in a subdivision. If you don’t want to deal with being considerate of your neighbors, find a different home that doesn’t have any neighbors around you. This is a majorly over the top and absolutely mental reaction that no sane person would do. If he truly had a love for his display, he should have taken the initiative to move somewhere else and acted like an adult. Two wrongs never make a right, and his reaction is way out of proportion to what the original issue was.
No it's not. The debris and obscene signs were making the other homes unsellable because no decent human would want to live there. You've clearly never had a nightmare neighbor living next door to you and I hope you never do or you'll soon know about it.
@@carolannedasilvarocha3651 you know what's also childish? Calling the police and township on a neighbor for his decorations to the point that he felt the need to behave this way.
@@CalThePlantWitch92 you know what's really childish? Putting up such a grand display so big and bright that it lights up the interior of your neighbors houses even through curtains. This guy is off his meds he's lucky someone just as crazy as him isn't his neighbor
I don't understand why they people are mad? They asked him to tone it down right? Well he toned it down from Christmas Charity for sick children, to the fucking Texas chainsaw massacre before Christmas. And after looking at all the facts, I love this guy. Built his house, career electrician, obviously talented at it, and also has one dark sense of humor. Can I donate to him? Get this man a patreon!!
Ummmmm, this looks to be the fault of that woman who said she asked him to "tone down the lights during her Christmas dinner" -- whatever that means. Then she had the audacity to blame him for her divorce.
