Neighbour's unhappy with anti-alien spotlights at man's foil-wrapped house

A neighbourhood in Hermitage in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, is fed up with an elderly man on their street, so much so that they’ve taken him to court for excessive use of spotlights. 78-year-old Arthur Brown lives in the foil-wrapped house.



Nancy Raich lives across the street. “Over the years he’s become a real problem. He has a lot of issues fearing aliens,” Raich said. Raich said this behaviour has been going on for more than 20 years, and she’s had enough. She’s 72 and wants to downsize, selling her home to buy a condo, but no one wants to buy it.





“Who wants to buy my house? A nice decent house, garages, acreage in Hermitage, a nice place to live, when this yahoo across the street decides he wants to shine lights on me?” Raich said. And she’s not alone. “He used to have an alarm that would go off on and off on and off and that was annoying,” neighbour Donna Misinay said.


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“Now his new thing is, come out here and chase you with a spotlight.” It’s become so bad, they’ve taken it to court. And within the past few days, the city has filed a petition for an injunction to force Mr Brown to stop using the spotlights. “It’s a violation of the city’s zoning ordinance to have excess lighting that adversely affects neighbouring properties,” Hermitage City Manager Gary Hinkson said. The neighbour's are hoping Mr Brown's lights go out soon.