Halloween Display on Tieton Upsetting Neighbors
There's just two weeks until Halloween, and decorations are appearing on front porches and doors. But, where is the line between scary and going overboard?
You've seen ghosts on trees, and posters on doors, but many people called KAPP/KVEW to tell us they were bothered to see the Halloween display on 26th Avenue and Tieton in Yakima.
The display shows dolls hanging from a tree, many covered in fake blood, and some are missing limbs.
Tina Anderson said, "I'd like to just take some scissors and cut them off, and I thought about it."
Justen Kessinger said, "every time I drive by I always have to look at them and it's not right."
Kessinger doesn't think the kids who walk through his neighborhood on the way to school, should have to see that.
"They're too gruesome. They're not appropriate for this type of a neighborhood," he added.
The homeowner and display creator, Justin Tabert said, "People have their right to their own opinion, and I do too."
Tabert says he isn't hurting anyone by hanging plastic dolls from his tree. He's constructed the display before, but this is his first halloween in Yakima.
"Everybody finds certain things offensive everyday so it's no surprise that anything, like the halloween decorations, that somebody could find that offensive," Tabert said.
City leaders and Law Enforcement said there's nothing they can do unless the display is interfering with street or sidewalk traffic, or posing a danger to power lines.
Still, neighbors on 26th Avenue want the dolls taken down.
Tina Anderson said, "it's just awful to look at. People will drive by the main road and just slow down. I'm sure they're surprised at what they see too."