'VERY Happy New Year' Christmas decorations go VIRAL for all the WRONG reasons

ONE town's Christmas decorations have gone viral online after a photographer showed how how unintentionally rude they were.

By Anthony Blair /

Christmas lights in Civitoa Marche,Italy TWITTER/@THERUSSELLSHAW

RUDE: Christmas lights in the town of Civitona Marche,Italy

The festive lights in the town of Citinova Marche in Italy have been wrapped around tropical palm trees in the town centre.

But at night when the lights came on they revealed a very naughty image.

American blogger Amanda Cerny shared a picture of the phallic-looking objects on her Instagram account, and since then the lights' fame has grown and grown.

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    One Twitter user joked: "I don't think that's what's meant by a happy ending to the year".

    Another tweeted: "You see this as a reason not to light up palm trees, whereas I'm thinking this is exactly why one should always have lights on palm trees".

    Other Twitter users shared similar photos of Christmas light fails.

    One picture showed lights in the town of Heraklion, Greece, which looked like a very cheeky candle and two holly berries.

    Another showed a smaller, stubbier palm tree lit up with festive lights in unintended hilarity.

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      Christmas lights on a palm tree TWITTER/@THERUSSELLSHORT

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      “I don't think that's what's meant by a happy ending to the year”

      Twitter user @LoneWolf2965

      Local authorities in Civitanova Marche haven't been put off by the attention their town's lights have had.

      They told local press: "It has helped bring some excitement to the area".

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