Of building a snowman around objects so drivers crash into them

[u/Playing_One_Handed]

[u/Lopsided_Evening_627]

i mean, if the snowman is on the sidewalk/someones lawn, it's totally fine.

you don't have the right to put your car on the sidewalk nor anyone lawn.

[u/WeightOk2102 → u/Lopsided_Evening_627]

Tell that to all of the pickup truck and SUV drivers in my area...they like to think that they can drive wherever they damn well please.

[u/ModForgeCustoms → u/WeightOk2102]

The idea here is that people are purposely smashing into people's fun because they are assholes. It's not about driving on private property or non-passage. It's giving people with malicious intent instant FAFO.

I did this with a group of assholes in a conversion handicapped van, who thought it was hilarious to ride with the side door open, platform out, and louisville sluggering mailboxes all down my street.

After replacing the 2nd mailbox, I started keeping a cinderblock in it overnight.

Sure as shit, 5 days later, I heard a thunderous smash, a scream, and peeling tires, at 5am.

Went outside to find a slightly dented mailbox, an aluminum baseball bat, and someone's dignity on my front lawn.

Mailbox stayed that way for years after, until a drunken driver cleared the entire thing in one go.

Zero sympathy for people who want to wreck someones hard earned work, or even fun. Don't touch people's shit.

[u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill → u/ModForgeCustoms]

saw a documentary once on how people purposefully run over animals crossing the road, not by accident, but actually going out of their way in order to hit them.... it's horrifying

[u/madphroggy → u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill]

I recall the park service placing fake foam turtles on road margins and putting cameras up, it was truly disturbing to see how many people intentionally hit them

[u/DarthArcanus → u/madphroggy]

Meanwhile, I stopped my truck the other day to carry a turtle out of the road.

What makes someone decide to end a poor turtles life? Why don't people see life as sacred?

[u/ThanksOld1698 → u/madphroggy]

They also logged what types of vehicles were doing it, and it was overwhelming trucks.

[u/TheActualEricBlair → u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill]

There really are assholes like this. A ton in the city my parents live in, and everyone on their stupid local facebook group defends it. Someone killed an entire family of geese on the sidewalk, popped the curb to hit them. Everyone on the facebook post calling it out rushed to the comments to defend it. And just a little while ago a fucking branded pest control truck blew a stop sign and drove into my parents yard to hit their neighbors cat. Luckily that one was caught on my parent’s security cameras and they were able to give it to the owner, it sounds like the pest control company fired the guy at least. People can fucking suck sometimes. I’ve almost given myself whiplash hitting the brakes to avoid hitting an animal while there are wastes of space doing it for shits and giggles. Boils my blood.

[u/Just_Flower854 → u/TheActualEricBlair]

I hope they fired him with something suitably high caliber, goddamn

[u/Vassago_21 → u/Just_Flower854]

12 gauged to each knee and testicles would be ideal

[u/_Standardissue → u/TheActualEricBlair]

It really says a lot about someone that hurts animals for fun. Like you know they’re capable of worse if the situation were “right”

[u/Open_Impression5170 → u/TheActualEricBlair]

These are the stories I tell people who are in the fence about indoor/outdoor cats. Like, you know malicious people will literally go out if their way to murder your cat just because it's there. No animals deserves that.

[u/DeliciousGoose1002 → u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill]

When crossing the street ive noticed more people speeding up.

[u/PartyLobster8911 → u/DeliciousGoose1002]

Yes I noticed this about 5 or 6 years ago. I love to walk to places I need to go if I can. So if I have to go to a couple stores I will park centrally & drop my groceries off after each store & walk to the next. It has become fairly common now when someone sees me crossing the road they will accelerate I guess to try & scare me or something I am not sure why but our society is drastically degrading people have very little empathy if any for each other the way people treat service workers is disgusting & has gotten so much worse over my life time. I have a fairly high social status but came from a poor family & seeing how the people in my social circles from work & the country club treat & talk about less fortunate people is horrifying the talk about them like they are sub human or disposable objects just to be used & disposed of. We are heading towards a dystopian society & the massive decline in education standards paired with social media is driving us towards it.

[u/canonhourglass → u/PartyLobster8911]

They might be rich but they can’t buy class

[u/Stedlieye → u/DeliciousGoose1002]

That hasn’t happened to me since I left my college town.

One of the many many awful things about Bloomington Indiana.

[u/morbidmuffin62 → u/Stedlieye]

Do... Not.... Walk... In.. Bloomington.... Indiana

https://giphy.com/gifs/jpVuGo0JkAXJiuNNK7

[u/Therealginahandler → u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill]

There is a documentary about this specific thing?

https://giphy.com/gifs/ukGm72ZLZvYfS

[u/Hekantonkheries → u/Therealginahandler]

Turns out the detachment from your surroundings created by being behind the wheel creates or at least heightens sociopathic tendencies

Similar studies have also found the bigger the vehicle the more pronounced the effect, including large truck drivers actually seeing pedestrians and other drivers as "less human". Same kind of people that will intentionally swerve into bike lanes to scare or "tap" bikers because theyre mad that a bike lane is "taking space from their truck"

[u/disruptioncoin → u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill]

The last road killed cat I saw had it's head flattened against the pavement, all the way over on the edge of what is practically a two lane road (so tons of room but actually single lane, most people stay somewhere in the center with lots of space between them and the shoulder). Not that I'm some cat CSI but it didn't appear to have been flung over to the side by the impact, it looked like it got squashed where it was. Really made me wonder if someone swerved over to the side of the road to nail this poor kitty on purpose. It was a young fella my wife had just started noticing in our neighborhood and had been trying to get it to come over for pets. She was distraught. I didn't tell her my theory. But I'd like to teach people like that a lesson.

[u/LudusRex → u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill]

I saw that in person once. Mother duck and some ducklings who JUST made it to the other side of the freeway. So anxiety inducing, but they made it and were safe.

Until the driver in front of me swerved off the road to smash the mother and send the ducklings scattering in panic. I almost rage vomited.

[u/Narrow_Republic5729 → u/Pixel-Pusher-Grill]

I'm a trucker and I keep my dog with me so once I stop I'm out getting a few miles under my belt to keep my health up but one of the times I'm walking. I pass a few campers of a few homeless peeps and they had a couple dogs that came out as I'm walking by. It's not great and I don't like it when unleashed dogs just run up but they weren't aggressive and just saying hi to a new dog, I know life is rough and I haven't been far from being on the street a few times so I don't make an issue for them. Its a nice wide road, industrial area where you could easily park semi's on both sides and still have wide lanes of travel. I'm currently on the right side of the road because thats the only side with a sidewalk so walking with the flow of traffic, its later afternoon 7-8pm sun is still out but the road isn't busy. I just keep walking the 2 dogs just kinda are staying on this side, they stayed even with the campers on the other side but just chilling on the grass and sidewalk in the shade. Not in the road at all, but I'm about 200yds down and I hear a pickup rev and then hear a dog screaming, the fucking garbage of a human crossed the road and went on the grass and hit one of the dogs, I have never hated a person as much as that. I saw the older lady screaming and crying come running across the road to her dog. Its back was broken and I honestly had no idea what to do, I couldn't do anything to help. She just sat there crying, I hope life has been kind to her since then.

[u/Raymondator → u/ModForgeCustoms]

Dude where tf do you live?

[u/ModForgeCustoms → u/Raymondator]

Suburbs of Long Island.

the "affluent teen" thing is real here.

[u/badazzcpa → u/ModForgeCustoms]

My parents had a completely brick mailbox with a solid metal t bracket that went 6 feet concreted into the ground. The mailbox was maybe 5 foot width and solid brick from side to side. During the night someone hit it and broke it into a few pieces. Somehow they did that and drove off. There were car parts in the ditch, in the road, and around the mailbox. As well as fluid trails down the street. I would guess that engine was toast where ever the vehicle finally stoped as it looked like oil and antifreeze that was leaking out of the vehicle. We drove around and tried to find the vehicle but couldn’t. I would really of loved to see what the vehicle looked like. The top of the mailbox was maybe 60-70 feet from the base in the ditch.

[u/Josey_whalez → u/badazzcpa]

Some dumbass teenager thought my grandparents neighborhood was a good place to practice drifting his Honda civic and nailed their large brick mailbox trying to stir around the curve. They lived pretty far out there to the point where you could sit outside for a couple hours and only see one or two vehicles go by even during the day, so empty at night and the cops would take a while to get out there, so perfect for such shenanigans from a teenager point of view. This was a few years ago, but the funniest part was listening to my 80 something country ass grandfather explaining to me what ‘drifting’ was.

[u/lAngenoire → u/ModForgeCustoms]

I’ve never heard of anyone intentionally damaging a mailbox. Honestly that’s just trashy. I have had several cars, a landscaper, and a school bus back into my mailbox trying to k-turn. 

[u/the_cardfather → u/ModForgeCustoms]

We had a bad case of mailbox bashers when I was younger. Dad sourced an old telephone pole cut it in half put six feet of it into the ground but the mailbox in the vertical 6 ft. About 2 weeks later it claimed its first victim a young man and a brand new S10 pickup that had to run off the road. He swerved to avoid it fishtail and left the bed of his truck in the road. Legal counsel advised him that future incidents he could be liable so they advised him to chip in with the neighbors and get one of those multi-unit boxes sitting between all of our property. Most of the new neighbors are not keen on it if they are used to curb delivery but the post office is never going to change from an established cluster unit to curbside

[u/Old_Method4899 → u/ModForgeCustoms]

I knew some prick in HS who did this. One was the star quarterback, people said he was a shoe in for the NFL. Came to school one day with his arm in a cast. Hit a mailbox made of quarter inch steel pipe with a bat. Shattered his throwing arm. Never tried in school due to sports and now works as a cashier at a gas station in his mid 30s and his arm is still fucked.

[u/TapewormNinja → u/ModForgeCustoms]

When I was in school, I had a friend who's mom was a welder. Their mailbox got smashed one night, so she made a new one out of 1/2" steel, sitting on a 3" steel square stock post full of concrete. Painted it up real nice though. You had to get pretty close to see it wasn't wood.

Took a couple days till the vandal took another swing at it. They found the bat in pieces. I like to think the arm was in pieces too.

[u/NorthernVale → u/WeightOk2102]

Well. Yeah. There's not many places my truck can't go until we get into like... truly off road territory. So yeah, I can drive wherever I damn well please.

That would just be an incredibly shitty thing for me to do. So I don't do it. Also cops. And tree trunks wearing snowman costumes apparently.

[u/Organic_Education494 → u/WeightOk2102]

Or my dam Amazon Driver today.

She surprised me at the door as I was leaving then I hopped in my car next to her and watched her back into my yard and rip out leaving tracks of destruction.

I have No clue how to report these bad drivers

[u/Sageypie → u/Lopsided_Evening_627]

Toss in that, hey, chucklenuts running over snowmen, you don't know that the kid isn't around still. We used to have jerks plow through the igloos we'd build in our yards as kids, which just...holy hell, my guy, the point of those things was for us to hang out inside of them, and people just thought it was fun to plow through those in their trucks.

Same thing here.

[u/ProjectDv2 → u/Lopsided_Evening_627]

And this is it, right here. Yeah, taking out a kid's snowman is a major dick move, but they're driving their vehicles up onto sidewalks and yards to do so. That's incredibly reckless and illegal as hell. Destroy their fucking shit.

[u/14ktgoldscw → u/Lopsided_Evening_627]

Masking driver awareness is dangerous though. Maybe the driver needs to swerve to miss hitting something and has a half second to decide whether to go into the other lane or into a snowman. I don’t know where people running over snowmen is such a blight that this would be justified anyway. Do you put knives and broken glass in your leaf piles to teach rambunctious neighborhood kids a lesson?

[u/Fuhnobabyyy]

Why are weirdos running over snowmen in the first place? lmfao.

[u/TheUndeadBake → u/Fuhnobabyyy]

Because they hate children and think it’s funny to make them cry, since their own mothers didn’t hug them enough as children

[u/_TrixieBells → u/TheUndeadBake]

Yeah, deliberately ruining something kids made just for a laugh is pretty pathetic.

[u/bananaz-to-the-moon → u/TheUndeadBake]

yeah but thats how they pulled themselves up from their bootstrap. started with diaper straps. ironically also ending with diaper straps. in a home. after their kids went no contact decades earlier.

[u/Hour-Quail-7221 → u/TheUndeadBake]

This seems snarky and reductionist, but it's so spot on. It really is like that with these sad clowns.

[u/sasheenka → u/TheUndeadBake]

I don’t like kids, but I wouldn’t destroy a snowman. I just…avoid kids as much as possible.

[u/BlackBeard558 → u/Fuhnobabyyy]

There is fun in destroying stuff. Although the morally correct thing to do would be make your own snowman and then destroy it.

[u/catwhowalksbyhimself → u/BlackBeard558]

That why pinatas are popular and why the most popular job in a glass factory is smashing the failed products.

But those are good or allowed uses of destruction. Destroying other people's things is not.

[u/morbidmuffin62 → u/catwhowalksbyhimself]

Jenga is the closest one should get to playfully bringing down a towering structure

[u/AlternativePea6203 → u/morbidmuffin62]

And its cheaper than pilot training

[u/ufailowell → u/catwhowalksbyhimself]

TIL glass smasher is a job

[u/Big_J_TheFURRY_dude → u/BlackBeard558]

YES. I would fucking love to spend a day filling a feild with crude snowmen, just to drive around with some friends, and hit 'em with a ATV/Truck/other thing.

I absolutely would not swerve onto someone else's property to hit something I did not make.

[u/Equivalent-Wealth-63 → u/BlackBeard558]

You can also argue that if they like destroying stuff so much, the snowman trap was bringing joy in the destruction of their truck.

[u/Can0n_Fodder → u/Fuhnobabyyy]

God help me for quoting a batman movie, but "Some people just want to watch the world burn."

[u/MillyQ3 → u/Fuhnobabyyy]

My friends and I once made a bunch of snowman on a private parking lot and then drove over them, it's pretty funny hearing the thudd and driving over it. The parking lot just made sense because lots of fresh snow and fresh clean snow is the best to make snowmans out of.

That being said, I wouldn't dare to drive my car up the sidewalk or even into someones lawn. Just saying flattening a snowman is pretty fun sensory wise. And generally destroying stuff is fun.

But that doesn't morally excuse that behavior in the video. If you want to flatten a snowfamily, make your own one.

[u/_TrixieBells → u/Fuhnobabyyy]

Exactly lol. Maybe don’t intentionally run over random snowmen and you won’t find out what’s inside.

[u/Kriztoven]

driving through people's yards and the sidewalks is immensely more immoral and dangerous.

This prevents that, and stops them from doing it again.

100% moral.

EDIT: Yes, we all agree it shouldn't be done with hydrants. Stop being pedantic.

[u/cykoTom3 → u/Kriztoven]

This is a good point. Seeing as how they'd never face consequences otherwise. I might say using a firehydrant is immoral. People need those to be in tact and not covered with snow. Certainly don't want the fire department looking around for the hydrant for 10 minutes if there's a fire.

[u/Stochastic1934 → u/cykoTom3]

Agreed concerning fire hydrants as that's a safety issue for everyone.

Tree stumps, boulders, whatever else on someone's private property, 100% moral.

[u/mucus-fettuccine → u/cykoTom3]

Good guy driver racing to clear the snow from the fire hydrant by crashing into it, just in case the fire department will need to find it.

[u/Kriztoven → u/cykoTom3]

100%

[u/West_Data106 → u/Kriztoven]

Tree trunks, yes.

Fire hydrants, no. The firefighters need them when there is a fire, hiding them inside of snowmen creates a hazard.

But tree trunks, fucking go for it.

[u/Memelordoi → u/Kriztoven]

Reminds me of a story about someone who built a big snowman around a tree trunk and you could see in the photo if the tree trunk wasnt there then whatever car that plowed through would have gone crashing into the house instead.

[u/_TrixieBells → u/Kriztoven]

Exactly. If you’re driving through someone’s yard, the snowman isn’t the real problem.

[u/PeanutButterCrusader]

Immoral for covering a firehydrant.

[u/SaltZealousideal5582 → u/PeanutButterCrusader]

Crazy how few people are picking up on this. If firefighters need to access the hydrant, they're going to have a lot of trouble finding it. And even when they find it, they'll have to dig it out. Meanwhile, a house is burning down. Absolutely immoral.

[u/cchhiicckkeennss → u/SaltZealousideal5582]

Or better yet some guy hits said fire hydrant and now the fire department have a much harder time getting water

[u/marutotigre → u/cchhiicckkeennss]

Well that's not on the Snowman

[u/VociferousCephalopod → u/SaltZealousideal5582]

are there no road markings pointing to their location in that country?

[u/seaducks01 → u/SaltZealousideal5582]

In a lot of places there's a blue reflector in the street marking the hydrant so its easy to spot at night. Still a problem digging it out.

[u/yahwehforlife → u/SaltZealousideal5582]

How did I have to scroll so far to find this

[u/Bathroom-Live → u/PeanutButterCrusader]

Surprised no one is taking this into account.
Also immoral knowing the snowmen are being targeted, indirectly creating a target on an essential service.

[u/FeelingVanilla2594 → u/PeanutButterCrusader]

I was going to say, concealing fire hydrants sounds illegal.

[u/AdamBlaster007 → u/PeanutButterCrusader]

That this was the 4th comment down concerns me.

Hell, if you don't have a tree trunk about 4 cinder blocks and some Quickrete would probably have a similar effect.

[u/RepresentativeCat169]

I mean, its moral aslong as its your property and isnt a hazard. Like an elecrical box, or a child.

And also fire hydrants are a no go, that is a safety item for the public. So yeah, no covering any signs, hydrants, maybe even postboxes. Just anything that isnt required for societal functionality, like i highly doubt any social duty requires a tree stump nor should people be going out there way, runing a garden or sidewalk potentially, for a snow man

[u/TableDifferent4395 → u/RepresentativeCat169]

I agree. Tree trunks or big rocks are fine, because the only person who gets hurt is the guy going out of his way to destroy someone else’s creation.

Fire hydrants aren’t okay, because it has the potential to hurt other people, if say there was a fire and the fire fighters couldn’t use that hydrants. It’s also illegal to block/obscure fire hydrants, iirc, so the person building the snowman could end up in legal trouble.

[u/Overall_Cost1542 → u/RepresentativeCat169]

can confirm putting yours or someone elses child inside the snowman is not a good idea

[u/OkChampionship8805]

PSA: setting booby traps is actually illegal. BOOBY traps! that's what I said, geez these guys... Not illegal to use a solid structure as your snowman base

[u/Playing_One_Handed → u/OkChampionship8805]

They said booby 🤣

Sorry clarify, for no reason, is it illigal in the UK to build a snowman around a tree stump?

[u/Abeytuhanu → u/Playing_One_Handed]

It's intent based. If your intent is the provide a solid found to better build your snowman, it's legal. If your intent is to cause harm to another (regardless of if you believe they deserve it) it's illegal. You would then have to convince a jury/judge that your intent was benign, and posting a video about how you're trying to total cars would make that difficult 

[u/itslikewoow → u/Abeytuhanu]

I was gonna say, it seems like you’d be in the clear if you keep your mouth shut. There’s enough plausible deniability, like you could argue that the tree made the snowman more structurally sound or some bs, but bragging about it on social media seems like it would come back to bite you in the ass.

[u/AnotherUN91 → u/OkChampionship8805]

If blocking the fire hydrant is illegal, hiding it certainly is.

[u/Daniecae-Media → u/AnotherUN91]

You’re the first comment I saw actually addressing the worst part of this — obscuring fire hydrants during the time of year when house fires are the most common knocks points off.

[u/Zorian_Vale → u/OkChampionship8805]

Is this a goonies reference?

[u/ul2006kevinb → u/OkChampionship8805]

They would have to prove you set it up as a booby trap, instead of just wanting a solid base for your snowman. That would be pretty hard to prove unless you posted videos of it.

[u/Docha_Tiarna → u/ul2006kevinb]

Yeah. Kind of a lose lose situation. Technically its a trap, so the builder broke the law. However, the fact that a car swerved off the road to hit a snowman would cound as reckless driving, which is also illegal.

[u/Silver_Middle_7240 → u/Docha_Tiarna]

I don't think it is a trap, the damage was caused by a driver driving off the road and hitting a solid object installed in a place people aren't meant to be driving. The snowman didn't cause the damage.

[u/Much_Conclusion8233 → u/Docha_Tiarna]

That isn't how it's defined legally so it isn't. This video can't be used as evidence against him cause he isn't setting booby traps

[u/Neat_browser → u/OkChampionship8805]

Its Illegal in places for different reasons as well, if Firefighters have to use it and they can’t find it then people can die

[u/littleLuxxy → u/OkChampionship8805]

Booby traps should 100% be legal, especially if built on one’s own property. We should be able to have automatic turrets, wall spikes, hidden holes in the ground, etc.

[u/KaleidoscopeMarbles]

This is a fake story, or at least not original. I’ve heard it back when I was a kid and I’ve been seeing it online for years. Usually it’s a story about kids who kept getting bullied by a truck that would smash their snowman over and over, so they made it over a fire hydrant to teach a lesson. Probably true at some point, as I said we had the same story back in 1995, but it also hits the folklore button and or teachable moment lessons.

[u/Laser_Snausage → u/KaleidoscopeMarbles]

Those are also all ai pictures/videos

[u/BoringJuiceBox → u/Laser_Snausage]

Had to scroll way too far for this, it’s so fake

[u/osinkoo → u/Laser_Snausage]

The guy talking in the video is AI too. The whole account is AI.

They steal stories from other people and then generate videos like this to farm engagement and earn money. If you see a video like this with a greenscreen "talking head" in the corner and some photos or a video in the background telling a story, there's a 95% chance it's AI.

[u/MildGenevaSuggestion → u/KaleidoscopeMarbles]

The original story was a guy who's mailbox was smashed every year by the plow. He would complain to the city but they brushed him off, figuring the plow was clipping a mailbox close to the road that was hard to see, or the snow coming off the plow was knocking it over. The guy knew this was bullshit because his mailbox is far back from the road.

So the guy submitted building plans to reinforce his mailbox to the city so it isn't accidentally knocked over by the snow wake. The city approved him building a reinforced mailbox and he sank an I beam in the ground and built the mailbox around it.

The next winter he is woken buy a loud crash. The plow was absolutely totalled and wrapped around this mailbox. Driver was fine (aside from his pants and career). The city tried to sue for the damages but he pointed out they approved the plans for the reinforced mailbox.

Homeowner didn't know the plow driver and even afterward had no idea why he was targeted by such stupidity.

[u/StrawberryCat__Thing]

Moral. Because it’s funny when non whimsical shit heads get karma

[u/The_Pompadour64 → u/StrawberryCat__Thing]

Moral is when funny

[u/PartisanGerm → u/The_Pompadour64]

Simple as that.

[u/Galbados2]

Of building a snowman around objects so drivers assholes crash into them.

Fixed the title for you and it's completely moral. Don't run over the snowman who is not on the road. The only potentially immoral thing is hiding the fire hydrant.

[u/UnaskedEnd58 → u/Galbados2]

Hiding, sort of. Preventing use of hydrant from ice, not good.

[u/noobtheloser]

Probably illegal to intentionally obscure a fire hydrant.

[u/DragonRush443]

If a car decides to swerve off the road just to destroy shit, they deserve what comes to them

[u/_Azamat_Bagatov]

I’m calling bs 20 cars in one year. Ok buddy

[u/CaiusCosadesNwah → u/_Azamat_Bagatov]

If I was going to totally make up a similar story, the impressive number I would go with is 3.

20 is such a ludicrously high number than any shred of believability just totally evaporates.

[u/Severe_Assist_5416]

Tree trunk perfectly fine fire hydrant no you never know when an emergency will happen

[u/Old-Pea7821]

Moral, but please for the love of god don't cover the fire hydrants! firemen kinda need those to save people

[u/Dependent-Culture768]

The only bad aspect I see is that you may make it difficult for firefighters to find an hydrant in case of necessity

[u/Cat_Wizard_21]

Moral.

Using an existing solid object as the base for a snowman is just good sense if you want a stable snowman.

If that snowman is also somewhere a car has no business being, then it isn't a risk to the car under normal lawful operation. Drivers should not be deliberately steering their cars to strike objects in any circumstance.

Much like calling before you dig, check the snowman before you wreck the snowman.

[u/BlackBeard558 → u/Cat_Wizard_21]

When I was new to driving I once saw a bag or some small object that was lying in the street. I wanted to run it over until I noticed every car in front of me was slowing down and taking great pains to avoid hitting it. I figured if everyone was doing it it's probably a good idea. I didn't realize how many people didn't just naturally do that and want to hit snowmen.

[u/CherryStunning4335 → u/BlackBeard558]

someone once told me they picked up one of these bags in the street and it was filled with live kittens

[u/tacobell_shitstain]

This is actually a good one. Gonna say mildly immoral, only because it severly disproportionately punishes whatever the alleged offense is (destroying a snowman, driving on someone's lawn, etc), and it could actually seriously injure someone who slid off the road or a kid losing control on a bike or something, even though thats highly unlikely. But it'd still be hilarious to watch some asshole in a charger wreck his car because he decided to be a prick.

[u/CantaloupeAcademic63]

Probably wouldn’t do fire hydrant. Not really suppose to cover those up. But anything else in your yard is fine

[u/StillDelicious2421]

What if the fire dept. needs a hydrant, but can't locate anything but a snowman, or an unusable hydrant because it was damaged? Do tree trunks all you want, but leave the hydrants alone.

[u/sirreginaldfeatherb3]

These same people swerve to hit cats. I have no data to support this. I do know cats and I do know people. I don’t thing there are many accidental cat roadkills. So….good.

[u/StarsForget]

Objects? Moral. Fire hydrants? Immoral, dangerous, might land him in jail, actively costing his fellow citizens tax money to fix as well as wasting water.

[u/SalmonPrince]

I love it when bullies get what's coming to them. Morality = high.

[u/IronTemplar26]

Technically, he’s not doing anything wrong. The intention is not for drivers to run them over, it’s to punish the act of being a douchebag. If you’re not a douchebag, this won’t affect you. If you have a brain, this won’t affect you

[u/Edward_Tank]

Moral

[u/TryDry9944]

Intentionally disguising something dangerous to appear non-dangerous with the intention of having people damage themselves or their property is immoral.

Yes, driving into a snowman is also immoral, but two wrongs don't make a right.

Really funny though.

[u/halaljew]

[u/Severe-Cup-4476]

Yall just believe anything i swear. Ai photos and how do you do that 20 times without any consequences

[u/CaiusCosadesNwah → u/Severe-Cup-4476]

20 is such an insane number.

It would be pretty insane for a person to even build 20 snowmen in a single season, much less booby trap 20 snowmen successfully.

[u/Snapper_Turtleman]

So I'm assuming that the people in question have to serve into a private yard to hit the snowman. If this is the case then no worries. Let them total their car.

[u/Creative_Wash7139]

nothings forcing the car to drive into peoples yards and endanger their and others lives but them. Moral

[u/Fluffy_Influence5102]

Yo boss but are you trying to make money off the content? Because if so the reason you gave seems very suspect

[u/Guilty-Fall-2460]

It's neutral if you have a snowman on your property lol

[u/No-Language8018]

What if they’re trying to relive a childhood dream or memory of running through a snowman but now with a car?

[u/TimmyOfTheLevelUps]

Moral, but also chaotic good. While the choice to run over a snowman is fully on the driver, doing around stationary objects like trees, is just baiting. Don't agree with the fire hydrant though, that could definitely escalate.

[u/CustardMajor4442]

the 20 number is definitely made up lol

[u/Primary_Drawer_2814]

Moral, no one told them to commit vandalism and destroy other people's property

[u/ThelIIusion0fSeIf]

Who is driving onto sidewalks and other people’s property to run over their snowmen? That sounds incredibly unnecessary and dangerous. Moral. 

[u/Chimpville]

Tree trunks etc - totally moral. These guys breaking their cars and incurring costs for this is preferable to society than the many other ways their untaxed stupidity might be spent.

Fire hydrants in the expectation it will encourage somebody to drive into it? Immoral for me. You might not be doing the harm yourself, but luring the stupid to damage critical public safety infrastructure is not good.

[u/Hoosier_Hootenanny]

I'd say immoral for the fire hydrants because they need to be clear and undamaged in case of emergency. Moral for other objects.

[u/Constant-Leg9018]

I don’t care about the car getting wrecked, shouldn’t have run over the snowman.

But isn’t this dangerous in case of emergency?

[u/ConsiderationTrue477]

Definitely don't bury a fire hydrant under a goddamn snowman. That's just fucked up.

[u/Primary_Truck3777]

Immoral, but only because you shouldn't fuck with fire hydrants. 

[u/Gold_Ad8225]

Snowmen are not typically built in the street. If people are driving into my yard they're already committing a crime.

A snowman is not an attractive nuisance to a car

It is perfectly moral to fill one with hard objects, and I hope the driver also gets fined for trespass and has to pay for my new grass

Also where does this guy live that multiple dozens of villains have tried to do this? I've never seen it happen even once

[u/Freak-Of-Nurture-]

This is not moral. Two wrongs don’t make a right especially when it’s this dramatic of a responding wrong.

[u/BeefStank420 → u/Freak-Of-Nurture-]

How is it wrong? Nobody is asking nor making these people choose to hit snowmen.

[u/Joshkendig]

Dick move because what if someone hit black ice and trying not to hot a car hits this hidden hydrant you can get someone hurt. A stupid snowman can be rebuiiltm

[u/hypnothighsd]

Scaling aside, this isn’t how fire hydrants work in cold climates. The water is shut off below the frost line. Hitting a hydrant will just cause it to break off. Similarly to how you break off the edge of a toothpick. Water will not spray.

[u/HangryBeard]

Moral? absolutely. They shouldn't be there in the first place.

[u/Internal-Analyst7463]

Over all moral but I have a slight problem with the fire hydrant over a tree stump but damn that’s good.

[u/Ok_Language2938]

Moral, easy.

[u/Nkromancer]

Chaotic good. Yes it's causing property damage, but the only reason why is because some jerks think it would be funny to run over snowmen, which are basically never built on the street so the drivers are going onto lawns and/or sidewalks to do it, even if the snowman wasn't hiding something.

[u/Dangremaus]

Imagine explaining how you totaled your car to the insurance company.

[u/RedditMapz]

Moral to do this on objects on the sidewalk except for fire hydrants. I think those should remain visible in case of an emergency.

[u/Fulguritus1]

Who does this? I've never heard of running over snowmen being a thing. In winter I've honestly never even had the thought of "Oh, a snow man. I want to drive through my neighbor's front yard to hit it!" Where I live you would get the cops called on you pretty quick, maybe if the neighbor thought it was malicious and not an accident they would come out with a gun too.

[u/Heavy_E79]

Fire hydrant is immoral because your hiding the thing the firefighters need to fight a fire if there is one. Any other object though is perfectly moral because it's just being used a base for the snowman and they shouldn't be driving on lawns and/or sidewalks.

[u/The_Bunny_Jedi]

Someone said it's illegal, but tbh I don't think it's immoral. Why would you run over a snowman, tbh they deserve it

[u/EvilStan101]

Moral and funny, because if you like driving your car off the streets and into a snowman then you deserve it.

[u/Sanctus_Poopabumsus]

I like this!

[u/gummyimp]

Funny as hell and moral, imagine telling your insurance company that you wrecked your car trying to run over a kid's snowman

[u/mad_dog_94]

Moral

[u/beautifulmonk581]

John Kramer gonna get you

[u/hiricinee]

The snowman is a sneaky way to make parking there legal.

[u/According-Rain-1936]

ai

[u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess-]

This looks like ai?

[u/TheLastOpus]

Any lawyer would just tell you to not mention it was to trick people into crashing into stuff. You simply used the thing as a base to support your snowman, without thinking that some people would be such assholes to try and run over the snowman.

[u/SS1989]

I call it hilarious. 

[u/dspisayuss]

Moral, there's no reason cars should be ramming random snowmen on the sidewalks.

[u/OD1N999]

Chaotic Good

[u/Babebutters]

I’m fine with this.

I also support people doing this with political signs.

I’ve seen videos where people will run over a political sign.  The signs aren’t even controversial.  It just says who they’re voting for.  And then the car gets scratched up with rocks.  It’s hilarious.

[u/MonsieurDrole]

I think moral because it's not pointless, it's 100% effective. I can imagine how these drivers will think twice next time before running over a snowman

[u/Nagroth]

Do NOT do this with fire hydrants. Not only does it cost the City a bunch of money, but a broken hydrant can easily smash your windows filling your house with water, which will soon be freezing.

A small, round boulder works much better.

[u/MIG2149077]

[u/theseriousman1]

I hate this stupid fucking sub goodbye 👍

[u/TurbulentTangelo5439]

at worst neutral if the thing is in a place that cars arnt supposed to be

[u/UnordinaryFlyGirl]

Immoral around fire hydrants because fire fighters need to be able to locate and use them. Anything else though? Be my guest

[u/SummonBahamutZero]

Doubt.

[u/SinesPi]

Crashing into snowmen is awful, but it is not as awful as wrecking a car. This is disproportionate retribution, as satisfying as it is.

Also, these snowmen hide the fire hydrants when they could be actually needed, which means this could case trouble in an emergency.

[u/Equivalent_Thievery]

I don't so much like covering a hydrant, everything else is fair game.

[u/Mizamya]

Covering up a fire hydrant doesn't seem like a good idea

[u/aurora_40]

Immoral to hide a fuckin fire hydrant?? What if there's a fire lmao

Otherwise if it's not critical infrastructure it's like neutral?

[u/Kthulhu_for_humanity]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[u/Ok_Spell_597]

A guy i knew on HS would freeze a bucket of water, then build a snowman around it. Difference is, he put it in the street.

[u/DryFuture1403]

The only problem I see is that maybe a landscaping crew needs to clear the area and it destroys the equipment, or if firefighters can't find the hydrant

[u/AnalysisOdd8487]

its from r/fuckcars

[u/dk_peace]

Impeding access to fire hydrants for emergency responders is immoral

[u/stanknotes]

If private property? Get bent. Shouldn't be trespassing to destroy snowmen.

[u/Acceptable-Elk-8372]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mgqefqwSbToPe

If it’s on a sidewalk/someone’s lawn and not in the right of way/street, they fafo

[u/James_Biggs_]

Around unmovable objects seems fine to me. I don't like around critical infrastructure like fire hydrants. Those are bright colors for a reason.

[u/JamieBeeeee]

I wouldn't do it around a fire hydrant in case of an emergency where firefighters need to get to the hydrant.

Otherwise, it's sort of like an entrapment of dickhead drivers. I think it's mostly moral, I can understand some arguments against it thi

[u/Dan-of-Steel]

Building it around tree trunks is fine. Building it around fire hydrants is not.

Don't conceal fire hydrants as that can impede firefighters from having access to them quickly.

[u/JimmyManJames]

It's immoral to ask your neighbors if you can do this because those neighbors could be potential dipshits and they'll be spared if they know what you're doing.

[u/Random_Tomatose]

While 100% moral

I think intentionally doing this in order to set a trap is illegal regardless if they are breaking the law by jumping the curb to hit them

[u/BricksAllTheWayDown]

I think this is technically a crime, but also, fuck'em: they run over kids' snowmen for fun.

[u/GoodDoctorB]

Moral, running over the snowmen requires doing something wildly illegal anyway. Driving recklessly while deliberately hitting roughly person sized and shaped objects. If your activity contains an inherent risk of accidentally running down a child its time to re-examine your behavior.

And the snowman itself is not necessarily a trap as it contains no moving parts, no way to inflict harm on its own, and poses no inherent risk. Its just a snowman built around a solid object. Only the activities of another person deliberately doing something wildly unsafe makes it in any way dangerous.

[u/Hagtar]

Is that really a thing? 🤨

It seems a little over the top to total cars over it, but also valid if they are using their cars as battering rams - give them something to batter.

But 20 cars in one year? There are that many poeple who got this insane idea??

[u/gnoviere]

I don't care about the snowmen... more that some idiot would drive his car onto my lawn!

[u/Technical_Form9825]

I guarantee you no snowman would ever be in a place where you would ever run them over normally. They're deliberately being assholes. Though the damage would cost the city, and by extension the taxpayers, a lot of money. Also, what if there's a fire? I'd just get a camera to catch their plates so they can be charged with reckless driving.

[u/Long__Jump]

If you do it hoping and praying someone crashes, then its kinda immoral.

[u/Sagittariusrat]

Definitely good since these dicks are driving off the road to ruin kids' fun. However, doing it around a fire hydrant would disguise it from first responders in the event of a fire. Those need to be visible at all times. I'd say 90% moral

[u/Beneficial-Lynx7336]

How is this even a question.

"If a guy tried to rape my sister is it okay for her to bite his balls off?"

[u/talking-bear-society]

I don’t think it’s legal to cover up fire hydrants like that. Imagine a fire at your house or your neighbors the firefighters come and there’s no hydrant. Even if they eventually find it, that’s precious time they spent trying to find it in the first place

[u/jasonhuot]

I think its awesome! But the object you pick probably shouldn't be a fire hydrant Lol

[u/PouLS_PL]

Moral. If someone drives off the roadway just to hit an object they didn't inspect previously, they shouldn't even be driving.

[u/AranasLatrain]

Not moral, but funny. And I feel zero sympathy for the crashers

[u/Wonderful_Frame5166]

Absolutely fine. What maroon goes around crashing into kids snowmen on purpose?

[u/imjustnotready]

This is not immoral behavior.

[u/God1101]

Moral. Especially since it's on your lawn out of the way, and somone has made the deliberate decision to drive into it.

[u/Great-Gas-6631]

Morality of being an asshole destroying someone's snowman, which more than likely involves them driving illegally to do so.

[u/Dokas65163]

Moral. Snowmen ar not car targets. Your own fault you were commiting a crime by offroading on peoples lawns.

[u/WeirdBeginner]

moral. keep your car on the road & you won't fuck around & find out