[Rick V]

My house was a rental when we bought it and the last tenant worked as a lineman for the local power company and he installed a dusk to dawn light. When we bought the place for some reason we had to sign that we would not cut the pole down so I simply shot the light off the pole, well the bulb anyway. A few years ago some of the local old people, including the old bat across the street got the power company to install street lights in the neighborhood (Move to town if you want constant light) and they reinstalled a bulb in my light. Now keep in mind that this pole has no number on it, and technically does not exist. I had no idea they put a bulb back in it until it got dark one night, yeah I was not happy so I got out the ol red rider and handled it. I called the town planner and told them to never hook the bulb back up, that pole is private property and that they are trespassing and vandalizing by definition and I would take the town to court, to which I was told there would be no bulb replaced.
Two days later the frigging light came back on so I dealt with it in true Rickie fashion, a twelve gauge and double 00 buckshot. The next morning I called town again and told them to expect a call from my lawyer. When I got home that night the remains of the light and all the wires were removed and only the pole remained.
The old bat across the street said she was going to have a street light put up on the corner of her property to which I told her good luck since the two poles she could hook to were both n my property I would not grand a right of way to the power company and guess what, there are no street lights that shine on my house at night.
I don't understand people who live out in the country but want it bright at night. Statistically there is less crime in the dark up town section I live in versus the down town area where they have lights. It is supposed to be dark at night, It was designed that way for a reason.