You did see this, right? Ugly house, but it made all the media sites last week
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts...an-dangling-roof-it-was-clark-griswold-dummy/
It was only minutes before sunrise when Alfred Norwood Jr. slammed on his brakes, stopping his truck in the middle of the road, and turned on his hazard lights.
The 65-year-old veteran from Austin said he was heading home after taking his wife to work one hazy morning early last week when he saw what appeared to be a man in a blue plaid shirt, jeans and Velcro sneakers, hanging from the rooftop by his fingertips. The figure was tangled up in a string of holiday lights and the ladder was just out of his reach.
Surveillance video from a Nest Cam showed Norwood run up to the home, screaming, “Oh mister, please hold on!” He grabbed the ladder, ripping it from the display, and repositioned for him.
“Alright, can you reach it? Can you reach it?!" he added.
When there was no response, Norwood shouted, “Help!”
“It looked like a guy in distress needing help, so I took a chance to try to help him,” Norwood said Monday in a phone interview with The Washington Post. But, he added, “It turned out to be a dummy.”
A dummy fashioned after a Christmas icon: Clark Griswold.
“All I was trying to do is help the guy,” Norwood explained.