Perth’s Best Tacky Christmas Display

Imagine 40,000 twinkling fairy lights painstakingly synchronised to what may well  be the most excruciating “music on hold” tune in the world (you can tune in to the soundtrack on your car radio as you drive past – this is just one of the synchronised lights & music combos)…

Last year the owner of this home in Bishop Riley Way, Churchlands raised over $12,000 for Perth’s Princess Margaret Children’s Hospital with the display below (which “only” had 26,500 light bulbs)

This year’s total so far?  An impressive $21,650!  Not bad for an economy allegedly in meltdown, hey?

So, good on the Illman family for their effort (Kym is the owner of Perth-based Messages On Hold, which may explain the distinctly music-on-hold-ish quality of the soundtrack) and good on all of the people who drove by to see it and dropped a little bit in the kitty for the kids at Princess Margaret.

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UPDATE: Scientists warn that Christmas lights hurt Gaia.   Bah, humbug!

UPDATE 2: The peace-loving compassionate Lefty author of the Broken Left Leg blog  (“Fighting mindless conservatism since 1971“) has a typically tolerant attitude towards Christmas lights:

IMHO, people who go nuts with Christmas lights on the exterior of their houses should be shot on site. These fucked up environmental vandals have nothing better to do other than trying to outdo their bogan neighbours vis-a-vis Christmas lights.
Ex-judicial killings are too good for them.

If someone can persuade the next heavily-armed deranged US school kid to fly to Australia and pop off these cheerful mother fuckers, (rather than murdering his school mates) then everyone will be a winner.

And Lefties wonder why they get typecast as violence-loving haters?

UPDATE 3: Other favourite fundraising efforts featured recently include Carey “Mankini Man” Smith‘s dash down Hay Street in a stylish stretchy green lycra mankini in aid of settling a bet (proceeds to Princess Margaret) and of course Corrigin’s annual “Dog in a Ute” Weekend (proceeds to the Royal Flying Doctor Service).  If readers are aware of any upcoming fundraisers worth featuring, drop me a line at ‘sdog61(at)gmail.com’ or leave a message in comments.