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Singing Santa Driving Union Beach, N.J. Residents Nuts

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Union Beach Singing Santa/Video Still

Union Beach Singing Santa/Video Still

UNION BEACH, N.J. (1010 WINS) – Residents along Lorillard Avenue in Union Beach are in the holiday spirit, but not enough to deal with a 6-foot mechanical singing Santa that one resident put on display.


LISTEN: 1010 WINS’ Kathleen Maloney reports

Jill Patella said she put up the singing Santa because it was the last gift she got from her husband who died three years ago.

“This year was the time,” she said. “He would have wanted me to live life again.”

Meanwhile, the neighbors are growing angrier by the hour.

“It’s literally 12 to 13 hours a day,” Mark Dittman said. “There’s no consideration for the neighbors. We’re very into the Christmas spirit, but this is ridiculous.”

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  • Delta

    It’s Bush’s Fault!

  • Jim

    Neighbors had one of these music playing Santa’s playing in their yard a few years back. Got shorted out and started a blaze that ruined two front rooms of their house. After repairs they put up another one and the Fire Marshall checked back to see how they were doing and blew his mind. They didn’t seem to understand that the damn Santa’s were defective! Dumb….Dumber…. Dumbest!

  • jabusse

    How about stuffing a rag in the speaker. Cost $0 still sings quirely and satisfies everyone. You don’t have to be a reocket scientist to find out where the sound is coming from. So just put a sock in it.

  • Bruno

    Steal it.

  • Gonzalo Fargenkneipper

    But if it was some foul mouthed black rapper with a “tude”, I’ll bet the neighbors would be “boppin” and offering up their daughters to him.

  • sailordude

    A singing Santa would drive me wacko, and I have lived the last several years next to a Mosque in the Middle East, at least they take a break with their loud speakered amplified prayer’s!

    • nunya

      When? Five times a day? They dont break from that. Stop trying to drop locations to sound smart. Its her freedom you defend(ed) suck it up buttercup!

  • Edward Sonner

    This is definitely George Bush’s fault. I am not sure why, but I am sure the Democrats will figure out why.

    • Carlos

      Just give them time.

      • RedWhiteandBoom

        Yup. In order to spread peace and equality, gotta ban Christmas–the state holiday instituted by W.

    • ron martin

      yep – the country was run into the ground from 2001 – 2008. deficits, unfunded wars, tax cuts that we couldn’t afford. the tax burden was shifted to cities and states who are all now nearly bankrupt as well. I’m sure that the stress killed this poor woman’s husband, which is why she has to put up this santa claus every year.

      how’s that?

      • Paul

        Taxes SHOULD be shifted to cities and states. It isn’t the responsibility of non-local taxpayers or the federal govt to be redistributing the wealth. States like CA have been going broke for years due to their own stupidity in promoting high taxation and big social programs. I know it’s more intelligent-sounding to blame Bush — unless your audience has an IQ in triple-digits.

      • richardsh

        Ron, Ron, Ron….

        You take a story that has nothing to do with national politics and inject your political bias into the story and tried to make it relevant. You failed.

        Hey Ron, what happened to 2009 – 2010? You didn’t mention those years. During the space of those 2 years, 5 trillion dollars was added to the national debt. That amount is even higher than the debt accrued during 2001-2008. Should I repeat that number to you? And let’s not forget who has been running the House of Representative and United States since January 2007. (hint: their party name begins with “D”).

        And how do you like those new TSA procedures Ron? I bet if the TSA were rolling their hands around inside your pants during the time between 2001-2008, you would be OUTRAGED. But, I guess it doesn’t matter now though, because you’ve got your partisan blinders blocking any critical thinking.

        I’d call you an idiot, but I don’t think that would be fair to other idiots.

        Keep you partisan blinders on Ron. Always blame the other side and never actually look for real answers. That way you’ll never have to do any critical thinking on your own – which apparently you don’t seem to have.

        P.S. I don’t normally argue with idiots. But your post is the poster child for what is wrong with this country. Merry Christmas.

  • wcgreen

    Not much of a report. It doesn’t state if the residents can hear the singing in their houses or if it is only audible when they are in their yards near the property line or if the Santa is blaring its carols through hidden speakers. Does its noise break local noise ordinances? Which “12 to 13 hours” does it sing?

    Hard to judge the nuisance factor without facts.

  • James E. Unger

    In my village, we call the cops when anyone blares amplified noise at any time of the day. Such amplification is an invasion onto your property by noise.

    After the cops visit, the offenders don’t repeat the offense. The cops layout the particular codes and penalities.

    • bob

      Pansy

    • Ken

      In your “village” you call the cops when anyone blares amplified noise at any time of the day? You sound like a lot of fun!!!!

      • nunya

        Its called ‘choice’ we choose to live in ‘villages’ and your obvious distain shows you most likely live in the city and like people telling people what to do. See, again its about choice. I dont live here to have ‘fun’ I live here to rest and enjoy my life. Fun, lololol, thats funny in itself…. Here, have some more kool aid!

    • Pete Freans

      Village? Where do you live, Middle Earth? Maybe Bilbo Baggins can help.

      • nunya

        And you, what are you twelve? Go troll your sisters room for used profelatics, when you see the broken one, youll understand how your whole family got here.

    • GavInTucson

      You waste the police’s time on such nonsense? Wow, get a life, and let the cops get back to worrying about actual crimes, and not your petty smallness.

  • Mark Douglas

    As someone who can’t stand two of his back stabbing neighbors (one tried to help the other steal real estate from me this year using adverse possession statutes), I love this. I want one for my house!

  • HippyJoe

    So lady your husband is dead.?? And you remember him BY DISPLAYING a six foot richard-head that blabbers for 12 hours a day?? May I suggest counseling?

  • Scrooges

    She’s reaching out for some companionship, be nice take her some cookies talk to her tell her nicely how you feel…if you don’t talk to your neighbor don’t be complaining, because you’re being a scrooge!
    My neighbor plays Christmas music outside from 6 pm until he leaves for work in the morning…I don’t talk to my neighbor, I know he’s looking for attention because nobody will talk to him but, I don’t let the music bother me!

  • Luca Brasi

    If she doesn’t hute that thing I wil send the godfather and he will take careof itl

    • HM Phobe

      That’s right – there’s too much “huting” going on out there.

  • Al

    Anyone who puts up a noise maker within earshot of anyone else is inconsiderate.
    If the noise continues for hours, that person is a jerk and should have a dozen hyperactive chimpanzees chained to their feet.

    • GavInTucson

      Sorry, but I had to LOL at that one. It’s an image I won’t be getting out my head all day.

  • hank

    What a selfish woman! Shameful.

    • DBinVA

      I doubt she’s selfish. In fact, she probably figures she’s sharing with the neighbors. She just doesn’t understand that what’s music to her ears my be noise to another.

  • Deborah

    Did anyone ask her to limit the time it’s on? If not, perhaps she’s under the impression the neighbors like it.
    I do like the suggestion she put it in her house though. I’m guessing that if it were in her house & she were home all day, Santa’s vocals would be getting breaks.

  • htnkd

    Christmas is over in a few weeks– everybody needs to lighten up– we have annoying stuff in our neighborhoods but you know what– in a few weeks they are put away– I find it hard that you can hear this Santa in your houses— Maybe some of you need to go over and talk to her about when a good time would be to play this– I know one neighbor who plays Christmas music every year outside on his porch from Thanksgiving till New Years– everybody has gotten used to it– it is all recorded songs– kind of nice going to work and hearing this

  • fratafella

    It’s a muslim plot to alienate people against Chrismas!!

  • clam fist

    I like the Santa. It sounds awesome!

  • Joe

    Leave it to NJ to not be able to solve a simple problem. She’s probably sleeping with the mayor.

  • otto

    WHY IS THIS NEWS ?!?!

    Should we now be reporting if my gosh-darn neighbor keeps stealing my newspaper every morning. I complained to the police, but they refuse to taser him. News at 11.

  • Sal

    What happened to “disturbing the peace” ordinances?
    Why don’t cops enforce those anymore?

    • Joe

      I agree Sal. For some odd reason noise ordinances are not enforced. Barking dogs, leaf blowers and lawn mowers are an example. For the taxes people pay in NJ you should be able to hear a pin drop and the over paid police in small suburban towns should keep people quiet!

      • Justin

        Care to elaborate on how you’re going to keep your leaf blower and lawn mower quiet?

      • nick

        simple, use electric ones or just use scissors or a push mower that uses the energy from pushing to spin the blades. come on people think green, i mean not only is the noise annoying to humans, but think of the bunnies, the birds, the moles, the beetles and the lady bugs. We have to be considerate of nature, they have rights to…………. GOOD LORD PEOPLE WE HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING……

        Im not a liberal just impersonating one gives me a headache.

      • sleeping-in

        I’ll tell you how to do it. First go on your computer and make a form. Have cI’ll tell you how to do it. First go on your computer and make a form. Have some writing about what kind of problem it is, a place to fill in what time it started and ended, and the date. Put a bit title at the top about noise level in the illegal range, or what ever. Then fill out a new form for every day and fax it to the police department. They will have a formal complaint in hand and can do something.
        In my case, I sent a copy to the home-owner association. The dog who woke me up at 5AM on Memorial Day moved out soon after.

  • Dumba Merican

    This will definitely escalate to violence. The “over-the-top-loud-and-tasteless-holiday-decoration” related assaults have been increasing every year. Santa gonna be taken out!

  • Practical Guy

    Does it have a volume control?

    It’s only six feet tall. how about putting it in the living room next to the tree or fireplace. You know – where Santa belongs.

  • Flynn

    This is idiotic. She can’t set the thing on a timer to play for maybe four or five hours a day? There’s a fine line between honoring someone’s memory and purposely alienating the neighbors — who are going to be around for the other 11 months of the year.

    • DBinVA

      Hear hear! I have a friend who LOVES knick knacks that play songs and make noise. She has this irritating bird statue that plays a few bars of the song “Sing” by the Carpenters repeatedly until it’s turned off. One evening when a group of us were over at her house, she turned on the bird. After about 15 minutes everyone in the room was gritting their teeth. As soon as she left the room, someone grabbed it, looking for the switch to shut the thing up. She walked back into the room and seemed dejected that we’d turned it off. “You don’t like it?” she asked. We told her gently that, after hearing the same tune repeatedly for that amount of time, we were a bit tired of it. Please don’t blame the neighbors if they are weary. They have to live with this on a day-to-day basis.

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