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

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

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

Sometimes kids do it as a prank in the middle of the road

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

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.

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

Yeah I involuntarily hit a small boulder of snow on the road and it cracked the plastic of my front bumper

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.

it's a Mustang, it has to be satire

It's the same people enjoying destroying mailboxes with their car.

more importantly, you are going to damage your car even if the snowman is not reinforced. what moron would do that?

Maybe they made tough snowman in the street?

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.

This rules.

This is good revenge. But what happens when the street sweepers come to pick them up?

If someone died, that would be murder charges. Putting cinder blocks in the street under leaves is a boobytrap and those are usually illegal. What if it was an ambulance coming to pick up someone up next door? Or someone swerving to miss a cat?

I enjoyed that story, thanks

Funny

Damn that was good! I'll have to read some of the author's other works

Thanks for sharing.

And it plausibly helps support the snow. There is a legitimate 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

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.

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.