Sorry dude, I know how you feel. Sorry for the crappy pics, I had to run out and quickly snap these as the camera was dying.
This is my street.
I live on whats called Candy Cane Lane. The lights continue around 2 blocks. Basically you get hassled for money to put the lights across the street, you get letters on your door if you dont participate, and you get to deal with people crawling down your street that will stop to take a picture instead of pulling over then look at you when you drive around them just to get to your driveway. They told me of this after I signed the papers on the house. I think next year were going to look into renting our frontage to a company for advertising, they can pay for all the dumb lights. I liked christmas lights till someone told me I had to do them.