Veteran Tries To Save Man Hanging Up Christmas Lights

Earlier this week, a Northwest Austin family put up a display paying homage to the Warner Bros National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation scene where Clark Griswold hangs from the roof of his house while trying to put up Christmas lights.

They bought a dummy online and put a Clark Griswold mask on it, then scoured Goodwill for clothes that look exactly like the one Chevy Chase wears in the movie.

Chris Heerlein hung the dummy from his own roof and rigged a ladder underneath to look like it was tipping over.

But one day later, a passerby saw the display and started panicking, thinking it was a real person hanging off the gutters. He called 911.