{"id":1786201,"date":"2022-12-25T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786201"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:33:47","slug":"cousin-eddie-christmas-vacation-display-prompts-neighbors-to-call-the-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cousin-eddie-christmas-vacation-display-prompts-neighbors-to-call-the-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCousin Eddie\u201d Christmas Vacation Display Prompts Neighbors to Call the Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcousin-eddie-christmas-vacation-display-prompts-neighbors-to-call-the-cops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cousin-Eddie-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Residents in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, were alarmed when they saw \u201cCousin Eddie\u201d on a neighbor\u2019s lawn and police were called to investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">A dispatcher <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kentucky-2ebe9070e0439165c87074f553f5a873\">described<\/a> the scene to officers on their way to the scene as a man standing outside a home who did not appear to be wearing any clothes, according to reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cHe has a robe covering part of his body. He is exposing himself, and he has a hose between his legs,\u201d the dispatcher continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">When officers pulled up to the house, they found a mannequin dressed as the character Cousin Eddie from the movie <em>National Lampoon\u2019s Christmas Vacation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">A photo shows the mannequin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Local12\/status\/1606084673737592832\">wearing<\/a> a winter hat, a short white robe, and black socks with what appears to be a beer can in one hand:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;Cousin Eddie&#8217; display in Kentucky leads to police response: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8zFQeATRp2\">https:\/\/t.co\/8zFQeATRp2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ctwvZLVfb9\">pic.twitter.com\/ctwvZLVfb9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Local 12\/WKRC-TV (@Local12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Local12\/status\/1606084673737592832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">In the film, character Clark Griswold is on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/national_lampoons_christmas_vacation\">mission<\/a> to give his family the perfect Christmas experience, but things soon fall apart when Cousin Eddie and his family arrive with their camper, according to Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">A clip from the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LSqb4e8mUd4\">shows<\/a>\u00a0him standing outside the family\u2019s home \u201cemptying a chemical toilet into my sewer,\u201d Clark Griswold says as he peers out his window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cShitter was full!\u201d Cousin Eddie explains while holding an orange tube:<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Meanwhile, homeowner Joni Keeney told reporters the display was supposed to amuse those who passed by the house, and acknowledged the fact that everyone has a \u201cCousin Eddie\u201d in their family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cI just want people to have a good Christmas and get a laugh,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Officers at the scene did find it amusing and reportedly snapped some photos of the decoration while Shepherdsville Police Chief Rick McCubbin said, \u201cNever a dull moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">In December 2020, a man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9yV2tDuRqmo\">dressed<\/a> up as Cousin Eddie was recorded using a flamethrower to melt the snow off his driveway in Kentucky:<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">He took \u201ca few sips of his beer, turned on his flamethrower, and got to work,\u201d a Fox 59 reporter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, were alarmed when they saw \u201cCousin Eddie\u201d on a neighbor\u2019s lawn and police were called to investigate. A dispatcher described the scene to officers on their way to the scene as a man standing outside a home who did not appear to be wearing any clothes, according to reports. \u201cHe has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[11719,6962,5458,3676,6922,5676,6637,11718,5821,11720,3819,3882],"class_list":["post-1786201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-cousin","tag-the","tag-bongino","tag-call","tag-christmas","tag-cops","tag-display","tag-eddie","tag-neighbors","tag-prompts","tag-report","tag-vacation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}