Christmas Decoration Win
Christmas Decoration Win
Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after two days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.
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Picture by: dunno source Submitted by: dunno source via Fail Uploader
That’s just a decoration made to look like a man falling. Failblog FAIL
Seconded. This picture has been around for years. The person who set up the display had to take it down after too many 911 calls.
I read an article that this was a recent issue about a week or two ago. Do you have a link where this was posted from previous years? I’d like to compare it with the story I read and make sure it is the same picture (the one above is the one from the story I read). Thanks.
You can get a PhD with about everything these days. Tsk.
I know. I wanted one with my Happy Meal, but I got a Barbie instead
Burger King had them last week.
1. Ladder Fail
2. Gutter ABOUT to Fail (not designed to withstand weight)
3. Photographer Fail
4. Failblog Fail
5. Decorator’s reaction WIN
I agree
Here you can see that it really did take place in Kansas unlike a lot of other people are claiming.
For a moment there, I thought that link was going to show what really went on in “The Wizard of Oz”.
Actually, that’s the Missouri side.
This is a recent photo from this year. I know the person who set it up and had to eventually take it down.
Yup, I know him too.
Me too. He lives down the street.
my grandmother told me about someone she worked with decorating like that and having the cops tell them to take them down
Massive Failblog Fail. How embarrassment!
^ How stupidity.
They accidently the fun.
Very amusement really.
It’s very happiness until someone hurting.
Like old ladies. Did anyone notice he wasn’t trying to get up or move, or call for help….
I am confusion as to what is so stupidity.
Engrish may a stupidity.
caught eve’s dropping…..*pun*
Bwahahaha… great pun.
old but still a classic
Well if you read the description under the picture, it tells you that this was a decoration. It’s not a failblog FAIL, it’s a decoration WIN.
No, it’s a fail. Caused way too many problems (for him and others) and could have easily hurt a well-meaning person. If I had seen this on my street I would have reported it.
wow, you’re a loser that takes the F-U-N out of FUN.
It’s a decoration win, dumbass
I agree. If I saw this I would be laughing my ass off. If you are too stupid to know that guttering will not support anyones weight long enough for you to pull over, get out of your car, and grap the ladder, then you deserve to make an idiot of yourself.
I would probably be one of the people driving into the yard. When you think you see someone in trouble, you do what you can to help them. In that situation, not everyone is going to question whether or not it could be fake until they have done what they can to help.
uhhhh read the caption you retard….
Xmas Win – this decoration is in Palo Alto on Christmas Tree Lane and was still up there as of yesterday.
is he expecting to catch santa like that??!!!
That’s the point of the joke dumbass.
They know that. It is listed as a “decoration win”. They thought it was a funny decoration. Read the captions next time.
id SOO take out my camera too instead of helping him
I thought that too at first! Then I read the caption…..
Okay now this is really bothering me. Usually there’s lots of posts calling “FAKE” or “photoshop” on a fail when there’s no clear reason to assume it isn’t real.
Now there’s a picture that obviously IS fake and people are ignoring the caption and pretending it’s real! I think I need to lay off the cough medicine… bloody colds.
The guy had to remove it because of all the people trying to rescue the mannequin… causing crashes also.
Who’s doing the editing on this site now, Perez Hilton’s idiot illegal alien mother?
Yo no entiendo bien tu inglés. Por favor no me denuncies a inmigración.
Perez Hilton’s Mother win!
If its mother was here legally, that would be a win. Since she’s here illegally (according to the post), it is not a win. Come here legally and very few people have problems. Break the laws of the US and, for some reason, as long as it deals with breaking immigration laws, some morons just seem to think it is okay.
I wonder if I were to sneak across the border to Canada or Mexico and got caught, how much outpouring of support would I get? (Not like I’d want to go either place, but hypothetically speaking…)
*megaROFLCOPTERfacepalmFOOOOOOOOOM*
Well said US Immigration Services. Mexico has some of the toughest laws regarding illegal immigration and they get mad at us when we want to crack down on our illegal immigration.
Classic example of “Do as I say, not as I do.”
It doesn’t help that we promote the stereotype of running to Mexico with the millions we rob and murdered for ’cause we can live like royalty there and no one would care that we killed for the money. That and our craziest college students keep leaving their underwear there.
We only have so many illegal immigrants because our government makes it ridiculously difficult to immigrate here legally (as compared to the governments of other countries). If there were not such xenophobic and racist sentiments prevalent here, we would be able to make fair laws for potential citizens.
OMG! Is the mannequin an illegal alien? They should SOOOO deport him!
Lhyzz, the United States has one of the (if not the) most open immigration policies of all the countries in the world. I’d suggest you actually look into the policies of other countries before you jump on the talking points of pro-illegal immigrants. Most Americans are not anti-immigration, they are anti-illegal immigration. There’s a difference, but I will admit that it is a whole lot easier to attack America for not allowing EVERYONE in the INSTANT they want to come than to actually look at the policies in place and work through the government to change policies that you have a problem with.
But along the same lines of thinking. I guess it’s okay if I’d like to take your car. It’s not fair that you have that car and I don’t and since, by your stated point of view, it’s too difficult for me to get the same car through normal means, it must be okay for me to steal it from you. Thanks for letting me “borrow” it.
I’m glad the laws that exist in our country mean nothing.
Lhyzz, You have NO idea what you’re talking about. My sister in law is here, LEGALLY, and getting all her paper work was no big deal, whereas most other countries make you jump through hoops before you can even get a long term visa. I have friends staying legally in 3 different countries, and they have to go through the ringer whenever it’s time to renew their papers.
How is giving welfare, healthcare, and food stamps to illegal immigrants xenophobic and racist? You’re clearly a moron.
I’ve got a friend in the Netherlands who married a citizen and still doesn’t have resident status after like two years.
can we please stop placing the blame on the immagrant and blame the system that allows them to get free healthcare, welfare and foodstamps. If I found a way to get all that for free I would do it.
You say sister in law. is your brother an american citizen? if so, do you know anyone who’s not married to a legal citizen who’s tried to get all of their paper work?
Donde esta casa de Pepe?
Steve Martin response win.
Failblog.org FAIL
yeah, this is more of a Christmas Lights Diplay WIN than an install fail…
Saw This On Another Site A Month Ago >.>
Wow. You belong to the elite of Internet.
At least he wouldn’t Tapp it for a change.
At least his research is thorough.
FAILBLOG FAIL. Totally second.
staged
Say it ain’t so!!! Next you’ll be telling me it’s photoshopped.
Look at the pixels, damn you!
oh, GOD DAMN IT.
I see a cursor too….
The fail is that he took a picture for the internet instead of helping him/her.
You fail…
everyone fail
It’s so romantic when we fail together.
*bats eyelids*
..You Fail……Its NOT actually a person… read the caption under the picture.
Well- aren’t you all very up-to-date and observant. How awful for you all to be forced to see an amusing picture that you’ve already seen before. A tradegy, really.
Poor boys. They will need an extra ration of eye bleach to forget this disturbing picture. I hope this time they apply the bleach on the eyes instead of drinking it.
Considering starting up a charity for those needy few who have had precious Christmas minutes stolen and by the constant failings and repetitions of FB.
I would contribute with 100 rupees and a box of colored crayons.
I have some French Francs and -1 hour of time each week.
I’ll give away 4 shillings and this slinky.
*shakes collection tin with irritating enthusiasm*
Come on guys. We can come up with more than that! If we raise enough we might be able to organise a failboat to take them all to troll island.
I have this an object with only minimal staining.
You have k@’s pants?!
Keep k@’s pants, you’ll need those later. I’m donating a jar of pennies and 3 (yes three) Christmas tree bulbs that are missing the hanging wires.
*hands over stale bread and some dented tins of dog food*
*reluctantly gives up pieces of string and slightly charred scale model of the Cutty Sark*
Can they sail to troll island on that Cutty Sark?
maybe they can just drown in it
Are you suggesting the Cutty Sark be sunk? Perish the thought! I’d never damage that beautiful ship, let alone scupper it!
i was talking about the ship… *grin*
uppp
*sneaks in and puts “n’t”…sneaks out*
The fail is that now the poor man cannot defend himself if Santa tries to rape him.
Santa Claus is bumming, in town!
You’d better watch out, you’d better not cry…
bite that pillow, I’m telling you why
Stop defaming Santa, or I will tell him where you live.
Perfect! He wants Santa to come.
I just want my hands on the list of naughty boys
I want my hands on some naughty boys. Wait – I already have one! *hugs kkk*
*Merry Christmas Squeezies*
It’s k-k-k-katy c-c-c-c-oming to ch-ch-ch-christmas squeeze!
*squeezysqueezies*
Hello stranger!
Hey you! Long time no squeezes!
*making up for lost time squeezes*
Whoops…I seem to have popped your eyes out
*screams and runs out of the room, but not before giving katy a big squeeze*
…in his stocking.
wow, I haven’t seen this picture before. I thought it was a real man. Genius set up idea though.
Still funny for the people who haven’t seen it
This is a FAILBLOG FAIL!!!
This picutre was a joke!!! it should be a WIN!!!
I agree. 100% WIN for the dude who set it up.
everyone shut up about FAILBLOG FAIL. its only a laught
I’m afraid you’re fighting a losing battle there.
BMW WIN!!!!OMG11!!11elebenty!!
I hate fake fails. They are such… fails, but not in a good way.
wouldn’t it be amusing if instead of a man, they hung out some trolls?
Only if the trolls were visibly dead, or had been FOOOOOMED.
or as long as they are red and green
Troll heads on a stick with holiday caps on?
lool I’m wondering what happened next
PP
“help me somebody get the ladder for me ….Help..”!!!!!
Yeh. The family dressed up a Scarecrow and put it there. They got a bunch of visits from Police, because people that didn’t know that it was decoration thought is was real. Eventually, they were told to take it down.
Other than that, I LOVE their creativity!
Okey dude, shit happens.
You’ve got 2 possibilitys:
1. Jump down – break your neck ( 70% )
2. Jump down – survive ( 30% )
Or try to jump down without jumping down!
did he got there climbing not climbing the leadder? then its ok
*squeezes*
But how did he get up there without getting up there??
Makiiii!!
*squeeze* ( without squeezing – for sure )
hehe
how are your vacations? “hangin” around without “vacating”?
hihihi
Can I give you an answer without answering?
hihi
And fake.
The cool part about that picture is somebody said “haha! let me get my camera” instead of “oh, hey let me help you with your ladder.”
The guy with the camera actually took the ladder away.
This is just a staged decoration. The “person” hanging from their roof is really just a scarecrow. Would have made more sense if it was considered a “win”.
A scarecrow? Oh, if only he had a brain.
But there’s no crows up there….OH, he did his job! Win!!
*sneaks a crow on the roof*
heheheheh
more like “helping someone in trouble fail”
failblog fail. this was widely reported on as a christmas decoration and was taken down after too many 911 calls.
de ja vu… there must be a glitch in the matrix….
*jumps through the window and day a really kwel matrixy flip move*
*run’s to a phone both*
*pic’s up phone*
*press 0*
“hello, Operater?”
“Link, Get me out of here!”
This is actually a Christmas Decorations Win. Read the story that went with it:
“Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.”
Oh my god people! This is a picture of a prank, that guy is a dummy I saw the link on a different site. THAT IS NOT A REAL PERSON! The guy set him up to see peoples reactions.
Did people run up to his house and shout photoshop?
*gets there before all the others*
FIRST!!!!!111!!!eLEvEN!!!
That would take FOREVER to yell.
Exactly! Alex is right. I read the same thing.
Definitely Xmas Decoration WIN
OMG!!! Could this be a prank? A Christmas decoration WIN?
I wish someone would just tell me.
prank.. notice how straight the arms are as compared to the body which means no shoulders.
So the man has no shoulders? OMG, and no one helps him?
I’m pretty sure jam was being sarcastic.
that’s a dummy
don’t call names!
wow, this is a huge decoration WIN!! and a really lame failblog fail, come on guys, get with the memes
haha*
*quote: nelson
snopes.com/holidays/christmas/photos/decorations.asp
Definitely a decoration WIN, not a fail.
The main problem was that it was 2 days until someone realised that it was a real person and not a christmas decoration.
And the fact that they thought that his persistant cries for help were “sound effects”, to add to the decoration.
did he die?
No, because it was actually a christmas decoration.
This is a decorating WIN!
Total failblog FAIL. It’s FAKE as so many others have stated. Really should be removed.
Why? It’s hilarious, it should be a WIN.
“Don’t just stand there, take a picture!”
Failblog Fail, saw this last week in an email with the funny story attached.
“Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after two days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn’t realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn’t take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.”
PantsMoustache, allow me to introduce you to Alex.
*points upwards*
As a side note, and a slightly more interesting topic than the endless fake/failblog fail/prank/photshop/decorating WIN balls going on above me: the ‘tags’ box in the top right reads ‘penis phallic police product’ on one line. What can I say, it tickled me!
Grand Theft Auto 3 secret weapon. And it was purple
Well at least we know that there are a few decent people left in the world still (the people who scrambled to help the guy about to fall).
That part was cool.
What I want to know is: do the trolls that annoy us so much on Failblog also go onto Epic Win FTW and proclaim, “That’s not a win, that’s a fail”?
FAILBLOG FAIL.
FAILBLOG MASS FAIL!!
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/photos/decorations.asp
The story doesnt make since but I dont really care just because its funny!
i got a message like that and i screamed! i fell to the ground laughing! if anyone wants the message if i still have it, be my friend on loldogz and i will send you it! : )
THANKS This is a decorating WIN!
That is just too funny! I love it. The jerks who insist that only one person ever in this entire country of 300 MILLION people is allowed to make this scene ever, ever in all history are just grinches. And petty. “I” never saw it before and I got a nice laugh. Those grinches who think that people should be denied a smile just because they didn’t see it the first time – or weren’t alive yet – ought to get a refresher course in being gracious. And laugh more. What could it hurt?
that is a WIN, all those idiots not realizing it was fake after days of no movement… especially the cops almost getting wrecked lol
Oh wow… HEY IT’S MICHAEL JACKSON! HE’S ALIVE! Well…not for long…:(
Actually, I call this READER FAIL! From the comments it is obvious that many of the readers are confused so let me explain. (1) This is a picture of a decoration, not of a decorator clinging for his life. (2) Failblog knew that and didn’t try to insinuate that it was the image of a Christmas decorator clinging for his life. (3) The person taking the picture probably WAS the actual decorator so did not feel inclined to try to rescue the dummy. Oh, wait. Those who don’t understand that didn’t read the submitter’s caption and won’t read this either. Never mind.
Aw man…I wanna try that…
I think this should be a WIN
NO WAY! I live by that house!
Christmas Decoration worker fail.
The only fail here is that they took the guy’s picture instead of rushing to help him before he lost his grip.
If I wasn’t in a relationship, I would totally track this guy down and ask him to marry me. I adore his sense of humor!
Epic WIN imo
Wow, I can’t believe the number of idiots commenting here. All those complaining it should be a Win, look at the headline… all those saying fail was to take a picture first before helping him, read the caption. Doesn’t anyone pay attention anymore, especially before posting dumb comments… Comment Fail.
Only idiot I see here is you. Nowhere is it indicated that the fail is because the picture was taken. And why should it be, considering that it’s not an actual person, it’s a decoration. So yes, the picture should be labeled win, not fail. And you should try taking your own advice and pay attention before you post dumb comments.
Comment fail indeed, only the fail is your comment, not everyone else’s.
The fail is in peoples comments above that say it is a fail that it was taken. It IS labeled WIN, Read!
Clark Griswold!
Hahaha, my dad just sent this to me from one of his friends! I didn’t think I’d see it on failblog.
I think its just plain funny even if it involves somebody getting hurt or possibly climbing back on the roof.
(sorry if i miss spelled something)
haha wow. i actually know the person who did this.
ha; ditto
I thought it was hilarious.
From my point of view: we have several Human Being WINS from people willing to go to extremes (driving up off the street and onto private property to reach those in need faster, an elderly lady putting forth effort to manipulate and climb a large ladder) to save (what they believed to be) a human from injury / death.
Their efforts are no less awesome for having been misled by a realistic holiday decoration.
You people are forgetting what Failing is really about. Less bickering about unimportant crap, more failing, okay?
wow, your neighbors are nice. I bet my right arm that if I put up a fake person hanging from the roof no one would do anything. Probably throw stuff at it them bastards -_-
Merry Christmas of 2009!
Why were they in his yard in the first place?!
Well if you read some of the comments …..some……
they say that this is a decoration of someone clinging for their life. I waste my time reading comments but Its fine because I can answer somebodys question…….:)
How… cruel. xD
Read my comment above ya bonehead
you made an even bigger fail you put win for the title and fail on the picture. wtf
And the person took a photo instead of helping…..
Read my comment above ya silly/bonehead
Im a country girl so sorry ’bout my incorrect grammer.
Whoever posted this failed, the title says Christmas Decoration Win but in the picture it says Fail.
WAOH
wait…
IDK THAT WAS FAKE……
EPIC FAIL ON MY PART
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!111!111!
classic,
its even funnier cuz he has one of those uber ladders.
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