hamstercult.com--censoring christmas lights? what the hell?

What the #%&$."- General consensus among me and my roommates.

It's a rare instance that something can leave me totally confused. But something that was discovered last night at my house truly did.

In the spirit of the season, my roommates put up Christmas. I say they did, because all I basically did was untangle the light strands. I'm a real klutz when it comes to stapling and standing on things.

There a few strands of all-blue lights left, so two of my roommates got the idea of spelling something out on the room. "USA" ended up being the choice. There weren't enough lights to spell out something elaborate.

So, while getting ready for our friend's annual holiday dinner party (which she was holding at our house), it was noticed the USA wasn't lighting up. Figuring it might have just been a blown light or something, my roommate Nick got up on the roof to check it out.

In that photo, which Nick took with my camera, it becomes clear that a blown light wasn't a problem. Those wires are cut. There should be a electrical plug and socket in this picture. But those were cut and removed.

The lines were cut cleanly, so it is doubtful that it was bitten through by some sort of animal (I've always wanted to see how a squirrel stands up to getting hit with 110, though).

So, the most obvious solution seems to be--and even it sounds bizarre--that somebody climbed on our roof (even though we don't have a ladder here), and just cut the lights that spell "USA."

Which, unless the perpetrator is some sort of ultra-radical anarchist piece of crap (that carted over their own ladder), this may qualify as one of the dumbest acts of vandalism I've ever heard of (and definitely the dumbest that I've eyewitnessed) in my life.

Actually, even if the perpetrator is some sort of ultra-radical anarchist piece of crap (that carted over their own ladder), they're still pretty dumb.

Anyway, my roomies' electrical expertise has the USA light display fixed, and better than ever, We're now contemplating a gigantic plywood American flag for the front yard.

Take that, sucker!