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I’m not sure if I should feel good about this <\/a>or not, but I do.
\nAlan and Bonnie Aerts have been putting up $150,000 worth (!<\/b>) of Christmans decorations at their California home for the last 6 years. Not this year though:<\/p>\n

This year, though, the merry menagerie stayed indoors. Instead, on the manicured lawn outside the couple’s Tudor mansion stands a single tiding: a 10-foot-tall Grinch with green fuzz, rotting teeth, and beet-red eyeballs.
\nThe Aertses erected the smirking giant to protest the couple across the street — 16-year residents Le and Susan Nguyen, who initiated complaints to city officials that the display was turning the quiet neighborhood into a Disneyesque nightmare.
\nAlan Aerts, who makes sure the Grinch’s spindly finger points directly to the Nguyens’ house, says the complaints killed the exhibit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess I can understand the frustrations with traffic etc., but it’s hard not too see the grinch in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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