Wisconsin Man Wraps His Chevy Camaro In Christmas Lights, Gets Pulled Over
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A Wisconsin man who affixed Christmas lights to his Chevy Camaro in a bid to spread holiday cheer has been forced to switch them off after he was pulled over by the police.
According to Wisconsin FOX affiliate WLUK, Tyler Kamholz was pulled over by a state trooper while driving through a parking lot in Grand Chute. The police officer kindly informed young 18-year-old Tyler that motor vehicles can only have white, amber or red-colored lights affixed to them, making his multi-colored Christmas lights illegal. The maximum fine for a violation of this law is $200, but the officer must have been feeling a bit generous with the holidays approaching, as she decided to let the teenager off with a warning.
“She pretty much said she really liked the lights, but she’s pulling me over for the lights,” Tyler Kamholz told WLUK. “She asked for a picture and took a picture. It ended up on Facebook everywhere.”
While Kamholz is allowed to keep the Christmas lights on his car, he has to keep them switched off when he is traveling on public roads. He admitted to WLUK that he’ll probably still drive his Chevy Camaro with them on, but “only on backroads where I’m only going like 20,” he told the news outlet with a laugh.
So where did Tyler get the idea to attach Christmas lights to his car? He said he first saw a tutorial about it YouTube a few years ago, so this year he decided to go out and buy $30 worth of Christmas lights and try it himself. His dad, a retired police officer, warned him that the lights would be illegal if he drove around with them turned on, but as teenagers are known to do, he didn’t listen. It seems Tyler had to learn this lesson the hard way, but at least he was able to avoid getting a ticket.
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A. He didn’t listen to his Dad.
B. He openly admitted that he will continue to drive around with them turned on.
C. Best of luck, Junior.
i wonder if he pulled out the “my dad is a cop” get out of trouble card?
The lights are worth more than the junk it’s attached to.
You act like there’s vehicles out there that don’t ever have a part go bad whether it’s mild or severe. What kind of world do you live in. Can’t just drive a car and do no maintenance on it, and even with maintenance parts don’t last forever your expectations seem pretty unrealistic, you should fix that. You can get aftermarket parts that may last a longer time or the stock parts which can still last a long time if it’s built good. It’d be really cool if parts did last forever. But what kind of money does that cut into for the company?
when does trump tweet this is part of the war on christmas?
Probably right after Biden and the rest his pleasureless followers decide to ban Christmas lights.
Trump supporters obviously support criminality and are obviously anarchists. Any laws doesn’t apply to them. Screw society and love America’s enemies.
No that was Obama that did that.
Phillips,
It’s really sad to see your country subservient to a degenerate country like Putin’s Russia. Bounties on US soldiers, hacking your government and corporations, attacking your soldiers in Syria, destabilizing your allies while the orange baboon goes golfing and kisses Putin’s dirty aZZ.
Holiday* Lights
‘Who gives a f*** about Christmas stuff?’ – melania trump … look it up
Oh yes the Soviet born hooker in the white house. Christmas celebration was forbidden in the old Soviet Union.
melania is the FLILF … i’ll give her that.
She only $ucks and f*cks for money and lots of it.
she must love money more than life itself to lay with trump.
2nd tier soft core porn star and total skank!
Sleepy Joe decided not to ban Christmas lights. Instead he has decided to tax all lighting. The tax rate will be $0.05 Dollars per lumen. The only exemptions are flashlights made in China
When does Stevey become an adult instead of a hater?
Probably NEVER!
never is a long time.
They look quite festive. Bah humbug to the cop, It is illegal though and I guess we should know that.
No more distracting than a highly-reflective wrap.
White Christmas lights are legal on a car…just switch.
What should be illegal is all these new car high powered lights! Even NOT ON BRIGHT they hurt. Anyone with a T.B.I. like me is sensitive to bright lights to the point I turn I to incredible HULK! I’ll take these low 12-volt multi colors over anything! Don’t get me started on the COPS “SO BRIGHT YOU HAVE TO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND WISH FOR THE BEST” as you drive by with someone pulled over! TIMES HAVE CHANGED. Laws need to too! Let the kid have some fun in the messed up world we’re living in now these days.
Other countries have active LCD matrixes or mems scanning lasers and the car just shuts off the lights where an oncoming vehicle is, so it illuminates everything for you, but appears off to them.
But NHTSA is a laggard, so we can’t have nice headlights.
White facing forward, red and amber back, amber on the sides. Green allowed in some states.
That’s the lighting rule in a nutshell.
In Georgia, white, orange, and yellow are allowed anywhere on the car…other colors are not besides red for taillights.
As if Georgia and Alabama are good examples of authority done right. 😂😂🤣🤣
Me: I think you’re on the wrong page you POS Ford loving troll LOL 🤣
Hey I like Ford Chevy and Dodge.
Merry Xmas and happy new year keep the lights on before the chrinch stills ur SlayCamaro keep up the spirit my friend, keep on Trucking,,,
Citizens arrest Citizens arrest.
It was great he didn’t get a ticket. Let’s face it, every one of us that was a teenager did something stupid in their youth.
Troopers have no authority to write tickets or pull you over in a parking lot located on private property!!!!
Blue/Red lights are illegal in all 50 states!
Most if not all businesses give police agencies free access to do so.
Vehicle code doesn’t apply to private property unless it’s a misdemeanor or felony. She was doing him a favor by letting him know what he had was illegal (if he drove it on the street.) She saved him the hassle of him getting a ticket from somebody else.
Many large and corporate businesses have agreements with local police allowing them to enforce traffic and vehicle laws on their property with their blessing.
@Donald Hund, LOL your citizens arrest citizens arrest comment. Barney Fife FTW.
Good for him putting up the Christmas lights
Perhaps I should do similar on my Chevy Volt, blue, 2013 like Jolt in transformers
And yet…we see many cars driving around with blue parking lights! Many.
It’s blue lights, blue lights are illegal blue is restricted to the Popo only.
Sir ok when you go out to your car look at the back end ok then look at your neighbors backend of their car as well and their neighbors car.. tell me what color is the lens??? Now think about what you just said!!!
Oh Pardon!!! Oh you say BLUE LIGHTS WEL WHEN YOU RIVE DOWN THE HIGHWAY LOOK 🤔🤭🙄 Ok that may not work i ws gona sh look at the headights that are blue !!! BUT AS WELL AS MY LIGHYS ARE BLUE HID ‘s the give off the white light.. but if you go in the auto parts store look at the bubs plenty o blue bulbs!!! 😅😂🤣😭 as bad as it is it really sounds thatdamned funny…….
Troops can pull you over anywhere and write you up for anything regardless of public or private property
Blue/Red lights are illegal in all 50 states!
Red facing the rear is allowed.
Regardless of state red and blue lights of any kind are ILLEGAL ie some states in the north who’s Police have red lights but fire departments have blue and red.
Blue is the only one reserved for emergency responders. Virtually any color is legal if you can’t see the actual bulb. So properly installed under body light kits are ok. Windshield washer sprayer lights, valve stem lights, colored headlights, and strobe lights (minus amber/amber or amber/white) are illegal. HID/ LED headlights are also generally illegal unless they came factory installed.
But all of that stuff can be installed if it is operated offroad only. Like carshow events and parking lot gatherings. Maybe a bonfire in the desert.
You cannot use red or blue for anything on your car ie hood wiper sprayers, headlights, valve steams, because blue and red lights are reserved for law enforcement only and some fire departments
Anything distracting to other drivers is illegal.
Including that 300# skank sitting in your passenger seat with nose rings & studs in her forehead.
Wrong. It depends on the state. In my state it is illegal to have a red light visible from the front of the vehicle while it is in forward motion. Exception is made for public safety and emergency vehicles. Yellow and blue are not addressed and are not illegal.
There are statutes that address hazzard on vehicles or things that interfere with the safe operation. Blue, white and yellow lights are not specifically prohibited.
The elephant in the room that no one mentions is the obvious example of no matter what you teach kids, they’ll do what they want. So go easy on yourself. Don’t blame yourself for your kids shortcomings.
Who gives a f..k
You obviously since you commented.