Hagerstown Christmas Decorations go Horribly Wrong

Photo of the decorations which remained up only one night.

HAGERSTOWN, MD - In a moment of laughter, horror, and confusion, the Hagerstown City Council realized that their purchase of new decorations for downtown has gone horribly wrong.

"We had to take them down right away, after receiving complaints" stated one of the council members.

The city was absolutely excited when a Chinese supplier "Hue G. Dong" submitted the original bid of only one million dollars for delivering new lights to the city. The original budgeted amount was five million dollars.

Unfortunately, the city has come to realize that the large discount ultimately resulted in the city dangling decorations not fit to expose to the public.

"It's a tough situation to swallow." stated another council member. "I think we really got screwed."

None of the city council would directly discuss what the specific complaints were with the new decorations, other than "Immediately after erecting the new lights, we realized going with the lowest bidder might have really shafted us in the end."

The city is reviewing its options and considering sending a missionary to China to discuss their position on the matter. It is rumored that former County Commissioner Spong may be enlisted to help, since he is supposedly an expert at getting numbers on their backs to do what they want.

This article would have been more entertaining if Dick Trump was still mayor. The Hagerstown Report is satire.