72 replies to this topic

[todd]

Burning electricity for outdoor lights then burning fuel to view them is pretty poor for the environment.

 

I ride my bike and only look at LEDs

[sebberry]

I ride my bike and only look at LEDs

 

I never liked the LEDs.  They're dim and I can see the 60hz flicker in them. 

[todd]

I never liked the LEDs.  They're dim and I can see the 60hz flicker in them. 

 

The old ones definitely but the technology does keep on getting better every year and less expensive + the dam neighborhood kids kept on stealing my old style screw bulbs(got a security camera this year thinking of putting the old style screw bulbs back up).

[Mike K.]

You mean the famous Oak Bay Police Department wasn't there to catch them in the act?

[todd]

You mean the famous Oak Bay Police Department wasn't there to catch them in the act?

 

Somebody had to man the OBPD police post conveniently across from Starbucks on OB Ave.

Edited by todd, 30 November 2015 - 10:57 PM.

[Mike K.]

But of course...

[todd]

They like the OB marina coffee shop as well, last time I was there were so many police cars and officers I was sure somebody had been murdered or at least somebody  robbed the place.

[Mike K.]

Best to think of it this way: nobody will get murdered or rob the place while they're there.

[todd]

Best to think of it this way: nobody will get murdered or rob the place while they're there.

 

Well at least after they're done their coffees

[todd]

 

OBPD            Just Now

 

Wanted: todd 

 

Description: large green Octopus thing

 

Age: 227

 

Crime: Whatever we can think of

 

https://www.oakbay.c...department/news

 

 

[Mike K.]

Biggest threat from an Oak Bay cop: don't make me call the Saanich PD!

[todd]

SPD is usually too busy pulling over Atwell to do OB's dirty work

 

 

(This coming from a Gracepoint police officer CSI division)

[Mike K.]

Still? Geez, I'd hate to be that guy.

[todd]

They never asked for the uniform back, got jurisdiction from the CRD all the way down to California(Oak County)

[Bingo]

1500 block Beach Drive near Oak Bay Marina

 

[Bingo]

Saanich Municipal Hall

 

 

 

[Bingo]

Oak Bay Village

 

[AllseeingEye]

As most everyone on VV knows the old Tattersall Drive "Candy Cane Lane" sadly went away some years ago after neighborhood residents got tired of the annual traffic jams and time and effort increasingly required to dress up the neighborhood, and especially after some of them either retired or moved away.

 

Question: since we haven't done the Christmas Lights tour schtick in a few years but want to this time out as we have out of town family staying with us is there a "new " Candy Cane Lane, some area or neighborhood with a !WOW! factor that is just not to be missed?

[Mike K.]

Government Street?

Wolaston in Esquimalt used to get all lit up. I'm not sure if that's still the case. The Spirit of Christmas ain't what it used to be.

[Powerforward]

Recently, wasn't the Candy Cane Lane out somewhere near Wilkinson road, close to the prison? Anyway the Times Colonist website every year has a map of impressive light displays.