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NEW PORT RICHEY, FL. (WFLA) – The neighbors could not believe what they had seen.
People stopped and stared as they passed the New Port Richey home.
The drivers slowed down with the windows rolled up, gaping. Some broken photos. Others shook their heads. Each person apparently had the same facial expression – a mixture of disbelief and disgust.
Those who have seen it describe Halloween decorations as pure hate.
The New Port Richey home, located in a subdivision near Decubelis and Ridge Road, is on display and provokes controversy and indignation.
In the backyard – skeleton after skeleton, greeting Hitler with concentration camp identification numbers on his arms and a star of David on his chest.
Then there was the panel "Arbeit Macht Frei", translated into German, "Work frees you".
It is a slogan known to be displayed at the entrance to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.
Neighbors call the decorations, posted by a local real estate agent at home, diabolical.
Mitchell Katz was stunned by seeing the decorations on the eve of Halloween. "It makes me sick," he told WFLA. His wife, Bonnie, nodded. "It makes me sick that we can have this, you know, with what happened in Pittsburgh," said Bonnie.
Mitchell explained how decorations like this are hurtful. "I'm Jewish, that means she hates Jews and we should die."
Another neighbor had tears in her eyes as she passed the house. "It makes me sick, it makes me sick, I could not fall asleep the first night I was made aware," said Iris Hookway.
So, what does the owner, Susan Lamerton, have to say about her Halloween decorations causing controversy in her New Port Richey neighborhood? She says she's been fighting them for months for landscaping.
"Because they're trying to take my house," she shouted. "You do not understand?"
She stated that she had received death threats for her screen, but that she was refusing to remove it.
She says she's firm in her decision to keep them where they are.
She also told WFLA that she was Jewish and that it was her right to freedom of speech, her way of protesting against the HOA.
"I have freedom of speech, they have freedom of speech," she said, peeking into the street as passers-by watched him in shock. "They have to leave my property."
In the end, law enforcement officials say that what Lamerton does is legal and considered a protected speech.
As for the owner herself, she has this message for people who do not like decorations: they can leave, the decorations will stay.
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