Someone calls 911 after mistaking Christmas decorations for a real person
765 views · Published 21 December 2018 · 1:45 · Indexed 19 October 2026
Channel: NBC 26 · 2018 · News & Politics
A holiday display in New Holstein is gathering a lot of attention after a call to the police earlier this week. It’s a scene straight out of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: Clark Griswold, dangling from the roof. This fantasy display, from a fantasy movie, merged close enough to reality that someone called for help. Authorities say the Calumet County Sheriff’s dispatch received a 911 call on Wednesday afternoon of “an individual that was hanging from the east troughs on Broadway street.” Officers arrived on scene, but instead of finding a person, they found the display. Both authorities and neighbors are taking this incident with plenty of humor.
