has a big set of Christmas lights,
have a look at these, at 120 kilometres of lights and over one million light bulbs it
takes a place in the the Guinness Book of Records, when
Australian lawyer David Richards started decorating his family home for
Christmas four years ago, little did he know that the simple pastime would
snowball into a huge passion, the father-of-three is now a self-proclaimed
‘crazy Christmas lights guy', impressed
with the display of lights at his home last year, Richards was
invited to transform Petrie Plaza in Canberra’s Central Business District into
an epic Christmas spectacle this year,
'We had 12,000 people walking down my driveway on Christmas
Eve last year,' he added. 'there were queues of hundreds and hundreds of
people, but this year, I’ve more than doubled the number of lights – it’s far,
far bigger,'
the family managed to raise
$138,000 last year by asking for a gold coin donation when people visited their
light display, 'I am the crazy Christmas lights guy just because I tried to
raise money for SIDS and Kids.' Richards has been working on this
year’s display for the past nine months, he called on lighting architects,
electrical engineers, civil engineers, and designers to make it happen, construction began in October, 22 tons of steel were used to create towering
structures that support the 120 kilometres of light, the SIDS and Kids ACT
Christmas Lights show is currently open for visitors and will continue until
New Year’s Eve, entry is by gold coin donation, you could find out about the
event at inthecitycanberra.com.au, it is going to make our couple of
strings look a little light.
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