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)
Yeah I involuntarily hit a small boulder of snow on the road and it cracked the plastic of my front bumper
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.
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.
Problem is, we cant stop this.
Yep. It works.
It caught my attention before I decided to ignore it, and even some of the early replies in these comments correctly pointing out the stupidity of the driver’s ways have hundreds of upvotes, which is a lot for Lemmy!
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.
Let me add one more: he’s done this several times already which is the reason the kids added bricks in the first place.
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.
Putting a brick in a snowman is not a booby trap lmao.
the blocks were just there for support so the snowman stands better.
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
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.
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.
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.
The guy’s page is full of trolling and rage bait. It’s not serious
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.”
