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Nope, no way to ''turn it off'' unless you wanna go digging around in there and taking it out yourself... But I'd guess that'd be extremely tricky and darn right ludicrous just to remove a light. I quite like the lights myself, I wouldn't know why you'd want to get rid of it?
 
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