Reminds me of a short story.
“What’s it for?” Princess asked.
“It’s a lie detector,” Cross said.
I enjoyed that story, thanks
Funny
Fuck Cars, and asshole dickheads in particular who get thrills running over snowmen and scaring off cyclists and pedestrians. Deserves losing his braggart machine.
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Don’t be an ass trying to wreck some kid’s fun. Could just as well do the same if it melted and refroze a bit to turn it to ice. FAFO
Really. Just a small chunk of ice off a passing car or truck can do some serious damage. A whole ice/snowman? Might as well hit a tree.
So kids, use blocks of ice inside the snowman to reinforce everything. Ice can reasonably be expected inside of snow.
“But your Honor, there was ice in the snowman!”
Judge: “…”
“Frozen water within frozen water? How unexpected.”
FAFO
This. I hope whichever neighborhood group he posted this to told him in no uncertain terms.
Unless the snowman was built in the road, the driver is at fault not the people that created the snowman.
I think the fact he doesn’t explicitly mention it is an admission that it wasn’t built on the road.
The “if I find out who did this” does bring that into question, though. If it was in front of a house it’d be very obvious who did it.
But given the vibes the car owner is giving off, it’s more likely it was in a park or field or the sidewalk next to a road, and he thought it’d be okay to hit it because there was almost no chance of the creator catching him.
You could be right. Still, the asshole driver not knowing who to blame just makes it funnier.
He is to blame. He doesn’t know that indeed.
Yeah I was guessing a park or something. Which means the “kids” might have spent considerable effort to get the cinder blocks there in the first place.
It makes one wonder how many times he’d done this before that they’d go to the trouble.
That reminds me of the time during a huge snowstorm, we got about 3 feet of snow. Not safe for driving. But I went for a walk to my buddy’s house.
A bunch of college kids built a giant snow family in a four lane intersection of a major street. I cheered them on.
An hour later, I went back home to check. Those kids were taking apart the snow family. There were two cops behind them, supervising them.
If the snowman was build on the road, the driver is at fault for driving carelessly, not paying attention.
Nobody else was hurt. Nobody else’s property was damaged. There is no one to be held liable.This guy drove into a snowman, regardless of where it was.
A static object that only moves in Christmas music.If it was a snowbank, same deal.
If it was a parked car, same deal.
If it was a fallen telephone/power pole, same deal.
If it was a pile of cinderblocks that fell off the back of a truck, same deal.The guy either wasn’t paying attention, or was being an asshole.
Either way, driving carelessly. Asshole is at faultYeah, even if it was in the road it could have been a kid dressed up in a snowman costume…
In a trench coat, sneaking into a PG-13 movie.
His car damaged the snowman and cinderblocks
There is a house near me that builds a snowman around their mailbox that is on a cemented in post. I would love to see someone freak out after smashing their car when they tried to destroy the snowman.
If you see a snowman just sitting somewhere and it’s not in the road then it’s on you for being a dick and going off-road to smash it.
The snowman alone would do serious damage.
This is why you don’t ever drive on anything but clear road.
The roads I drive on are asphalt or concrete I’ve never driven on a clear one before.
I have. We call it black ice around here. Nasty stuff but sometimes you get a new car.
Why do you call it black ice if it’s clear though?
In America, they call everything they don’t like black.
I think it has historical reasons.The opposite/corollary of black ice is white ice.
Prior to asphalt - paved roads the term was used for clear ice over deep water.
Black ice is stronger than white ice, which is important if you’re deciding whether it’s safe to drive over or put an ice-fishing shelter.
It’s also a hazard for rock climbing and scrambling, because it’s just as unexpected on a rock face as on a road or bridge (well, maybe more expected on a bridge because they’re known for it).
We could call it ninja ice
Because it’s effectively invisible, and roads are black.
Not OP but I think it’s because it’s just difficult to spot it. It’s also possible that the clarity of this kind of ice shows the often-black (asphalt) road surface through it without any obvious sign that there’s ice there. Could also be a connection to black/evil/cursed.
Probably a bit of all three, depending on who you ask and how they think about it.
black ICE
Bizarro universe.
I only drive on rainbow road
It is a road that you go
If you plow through a snowman with your car, you’re an asshole. If you do it with your brand new sports car, you’re a stupid asshole.
I’d have thought a snowman would do a fair bit of damage to a car anyway.
You could just use water to make the surfaces hard ice and it might be enough to hurt a front bumper.
Same type of person would drive through a pile of leaves not thinking if there were kids in it.
I don’t agree with driving into snowmen, especially if they’re not in the street.
Sometimes you can’t avoid leaf piles tho.
Many kids play in leaf piles, even in the street.
Let me add one more: he’s done this several times already which is the reason the kids added bricks in the first place.
Reminds me of my grandfather, these kids kept knocking his mailbox down with baseball bats. After the second time it was hit, he put up a new one filled with concrete. The very next morning there was half a wooden baseball bat on the ground and a dent in the mailbox. They never did it again.
I’ve heard basically the same story before from a local incident, but with the added bonus of the other side: they used a metal bat and the kid dislocated his arm and was almost pulled right out of the car.
there was a CSI episode about this
Where are these snowmen situated?
Its like a honeypot for assholes.
To make it worse, if they set a boobytrap on purpose that’s illegal ( in in the US) and the kids could be liable.
the blocks were just there for support so the snowman stands better.
Yes
Putting a brick in a snowman is not a booby trap lmao.
Sometimes kids do it as a prank in the middle of the road
Even if it was just a snowman, that would damage your pretty car.
This was my thought, you don’t need cinder blocks in the way. Ice is hard and heavy, that shits gonna fuck up pretty much anything but a bulldozer or tank.
Knew a guy who tried to drive through a snowdrift, totalled his car due to the ice buried in the snow
Parents should call the cops on this person for destruction of property.
That could very well be what happened. If an asshole like this made the effort to sue me, I’d gladly counter sue. Even if I only got them to pay my legal fees, I’d still consider it a win.
Even in case of a “usual” snowman, you can easily crack plastic bodyparts or dent metal ones. This is not GTA, where you just have to remember which items are breakable and which are not
I’m honestly wondering if he made up the cinder block to try and make this someone else’s fault.
I can confirm that hitting large objects can sound like hitting straight concrete or cement. I hit a black bear one night when I was going about 70mph on the freeway. Would have sworn some truck lost a load of cinder blocks or something. There was at least one fur tuft on my car.
Oh no, was the bear okay? Tell me you saw him scamper off!
They took the body to central park (or whatever weird thing RFK did)
Look, I TOLD you what to tell me!
Its ok it scampered off! -source: I was the bear
It went to live at a farm upstate.
Fun fact if you hit a living animal in the road it would only be covered under comprehensive insurance. If you hit something like a bear, just to use a completely random animal, because that bear had already been hit by another car (possibly as little as mere minutes before), then it’s covered under collision insurance. Ask me how I know.
When you say “it,” do you mean repairs to the car or to the animal? Like, if I hit a dog, I’m certainly going to get it to a vet if I can, (although the owner would probably rather take it themselves than trust my driving) is my insurance going to pick up the vet bill?
Oh wait, we’d want more help to the dog than “slap a coat of paint on it.” I better just get out my credit card.
Not sure how a dog would be handled. Pretty sure it would fall under property, but might have some extra legalese around it. The it I was referring to in this case was the car. The bear was very unlikely to survive, but it did in fact scamper off. If you recall I said it sounded like I hit a bunch of cinder blocks. Well I got out and went back to try to see if the other driver was alright. Never saw anything in the road. The state troopers didn’t see anything either. The first driver that hit it said it must have been about a 500lb black bear.
Good point. Hitting cinder blocks would probably leave scratches on the bumper, no? I don’t see any scratches in the photo.
Looking at that bumper, it really looks like the work of something soft but heavy.
Also notably absent: a picture of the cinder blocks.
Come to think of it, has anyone seen that guy and a cinder block in the same room together?
or he had buyers remorse and tried to get it totaled, by saying it was blaming someone else. because he was stupid enough to buy an expensive car.
A large pile of uncumpressed snow can fuck up a car. Compressed snow used to make a snow man? Yeah you’re smashing into basically a wall of ice.
Uncumpressed
I wanna be Cumpressed uwu
There’s a website you can order a cum press.
I’m sure you do
Yeah I involuntarily hit a small boulder of snow on the road and it cracked the plastic of my front bumper
Assuming you can drive through any kind of obstacle already qualifies you as a moron. Even if it’s just a cardboard box, you never know what’s inside. Doing this and then acting all entitled qualifies you as a special kind of moron.
When I was a kid, I laughed at people swerving to avoid a paper bag. It seemed silly to me. My dad explained why they were doing it, and then chuckled as my eyes got huge and I said “OHHHH!”
Was it because there might be a puppy or kitten inside?
Oh, you mean someone’s bag of caltrops might have fallen off the back of the truck? Yes I like this story better. Puppies and kittens should all be cuddled up on sofas. And only be in bags when they choose to jump in there
Or they just put caltrops in paper bags on the road to be mean XD
Ah, I’ve heard way more stories about bags of baby animals tossed out car windows than caltrops.
can you ask your dad to explain it to me as well ?
so this one time when I was a kid, I was biking through a parking lot and kicking at some garbage, because why not
I kicked at an upright soda cup. it exploded all up my legs and looked like I’d pissed myself for the next couple hours
same idea
Paper bags often have glass bottles in them. Glass+tires=a bad time.
oh. what’s the correlation between paper bags and glass bottles ? is it a cultural thing ?
In the US you can’t openly drink in public, but you CAN if nobody knows what you’re drinking
In the US you aren’t allowed to drink alcohol in public. So they put the bottle into a paper bag.
What kind of psychopath purposefully runs over a snowman with their car to begin with?
With their BRAND NEW car too
It surely would have trashed his car even if it was a regular snowman. Dude is a douche.
“It was just to add volume.”
…but why did you hit a snowman in the first place? Funny how he doesn’t mention that part.
I guess he was doing donuts in a public park or something like that to not know who built the snowman. Can’t drive there m8.
He’s beyond annoyed, might even say he’s, royally pissed.
