Christmas Lights Chaos

Well my mother and I recently decided to take down our Christmas lights that we hung along the roof line of the front of our house this year, and the original plan was to set up the ladder and unhook a few, then move the ladder over and do it again, but this seemed to be taking a unneccessarily long time. So, using my physics knowledge I told her just take one off, and then drop it and the force of it falling down would hopefully be enough to pull down the next one and then instead of painstakingly having to move the ladder every 5 feet we could just roll them up once they were on the ground. My plan worked almost perfectly, she took off one and then dropped it, and as the wire became taught, this tension force going down combined with the force of gravity pulling down was enough to over come the clips and remove the next light. However, what I did not forsee was that as more lights fell, there was an increased mass hanging down every time so the force that was pulling them down became more accelerated every time, and after a few of the lights were hanging the others started coming off faster than anticipated and they were shattering upon impact with our yard. Needless to say this was not the best option for removing the lights but if you don't mind a lot of broken glass and having to replace all the bulbs ever year, this is the fastest option there is.