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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.

I enjoyed that story, thanks

Funny

The defendant has been found guilty. The plaintiff is awarded $4.37 to be paid directly from the defendants allowance over the course of the next year.

Great example of american values.

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

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

I’d have thought a snowman would do a fair bit of damage to a car anyway.

The post itself is just clickbait, but legal consequences are not all that clear. It's honestly mostly about intent.

Here's a case where a guy's mailbox kept getting run over so he rebuilt it with a railroad tie and an 8" pipe burried 3 ft in the ground packed with concrete, and the guy who smashed it destroyed his car and paralyzed himself. https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2021/SCO/1124/201057.asp#.YaUu6xZOnDs

It went all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court where they found with a lack of intent to harm, the owners were not at fault, but that's a near miss. He said he filled the 8" post with dry concrete mix so if it rained it might 'firm up' which is sus and then buried it 36" in the ground testifying he was confident it would 'lay over' if struck. I'm not saying he wasn't morally in the right, but there's no way those to statements were factual accounts of how that went down. of course, the driver seeing an 8" post under a mailbox would have been equally insane trying to run through it. I'm thinking with a different set of lawyers, intent wouldn't have been all that hard to prove.

Also, could you imagine needing to employ a lawyer through several court cases, an appeal, and ultimately state supreme court hearings to keep from being responsible.

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

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

it's a Mustang, it has to be satire

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.

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.

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

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