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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 460 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 247 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Let me add one more: he's done this several times already which is the reason the kids added bricks in the first place.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 100 points 3 weeks ago

Its like a honeypot for assholes.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 110 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Same type of person would drive through a pile of leaves not thinking if there were kids in it.

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[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if it was just a snowman, that would damage your pretty car.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] jessicablaze@lemmynsfw.com 172 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Unless the snowman was built in the road, the driver is at fault not the people that created the snowman.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 130 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the fact he doesn't explicitly mention it is an admission that it wasn't built on the road.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 92 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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 fault

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, even if it was in the road it could have been a kid dressed up in a snowman costume...

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[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 weeks ago

His car damaged the snowman and cinderblocks

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[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 153 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

I'm honestly wondering if he made up the cinder block to try and make this someone else's fault.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago

Come to think of it, has anyone seen that guy and a cinder block in the same room together?

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 109 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 38 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 101 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What would make you think driving through a snowman is a good idea to begin with? You'd have to be driving through a yard or at least jumping a curb. Take the guy's license away for reckless driving.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's a Mustang, it has to be satire

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I'd hope so, but reality and satire are becoming indistinguishable.

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[–] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 81 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The guy's page is full of trolling and rage bait. It's not serious

[–] Pee_comes_from_the_balls@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It still appeared serious enough to be upvoted by 700 people. I guess this speaks more on how the sanity of linkedin users is perceived than it speaks on the validity of the situation. And yeh, linkedin users are a bit fucked in the head.

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[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 79 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

My cousins used to live on a street with massive trees that dropped tons of leaves every autumn. The city would have special service days where everyone rakes the leaves into big piles in the street and street sweepers would come vacuum them up.

Hooligans liked the drive through the big piles in the middle of the night. I honestly kinda see the appeal, who could resist. Anyway, they started to doing the same thing. Piles of cinder blocks under some of them. I was staying with them one night and we heard some horrible carnage, came out to find some sedan high centered on a pile of cinder blocks with the bumper hanging off.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

There was a news story some years back about a little girl who was killed when her father did this. She was playing in a pile of leaves and her dad was unaware of that. He drove through the pile of leaves and ... yeah, that was that. :(

Trying to find the original news story, I'm finding multiple instances of this sort of thing happening. Which is even more heartbreaking.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

This rules.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

So Mark Majeski purposefully crashed his car into a static object and blames someone else for the consequences of his own actions?

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 65 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is why you don't ever drive on anything but clear road.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The roads I drive on are asphalt or concrete I've never driven on a clear one before.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I'd be surprised if there were any legal consequences for something like this. It's not a "booby trap" in the traditional sense where it poses a danger to legitimate visitors or emergency responders entering a property. It is a solid structure inside another (seemingly less solid) structure. You should already not be trying to ram into it. It poses zero risk to anyone that doesn't already intent to maliciously destroy the apparently less solid structure.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

And it plausibly helps support the snow. There is a lwgitimate purpose.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 17 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

we have issues in the UK with something like this. if you pay road tax you can park anywhere that isn't parking controlled, including outside peoples houses (so long as you're not restricting their access to the highway). some homeowners started putting traffic cones out to "reserve" the spot outside their homes (you cant legally do this btw).

People would just push them out of the way with their cars so homeowners started filling them with concrete.

Putting one of those in the road absolutely can and does get you in trouble

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 42 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

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.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What kind of psychopath purposefully runs over a snowman with their car to begin with?

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Engagement bait.

I went and checked Facebook for notifications the other day and saw this exact post.

This is all over the place: Posts by people who are confidently wrong in some obvious way, just begging for some smart internet person to come set them straight and get their wimpy dopamine hit.

It is really enlightening, in a depressing way, to scroll mainstream social media like that and see the level of enshittification that people are conditioned to accept and keep scrolling through. It is so much worse than even ad-driven legacy media like live TV.

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[–] Jhogenbaum@leminal.space 28 points 3 weeks ago

Did they build this snowman in a roadway? If so, he has a case but "could've" (should've) avoided the obstacle... If the snowman was not built in a roadway: gtfo

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm mad because a child's creation caused damage to my newly bought, overpriced 2026 Redneck Sports Car™ and I'm going to resort to litigation! /s

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck Cars the Snowman
was an angry vengeful soul

With a corncob pipe and some cinder blocks
to make drivers barrel roll

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 17 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Reminds me of that dude that fashioned a concrete reinforced steel mailbox pole and got sued after paralysing a dude that hit it.

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/homeowner-who-fortified-his-mailbox-after-repeated-vandalism-is-sued-by-driver-who-was-left-paralyzed-after-crashing-into-it.4580112/

Homeowner won though.

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[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 weeks ago

I sincerely hope they get laughed out of court.

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