• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    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

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        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.

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    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

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      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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      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

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

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        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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    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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      When I was a kid, I laughed at people swerving to avoid a paper bag. It seemed silly to me. My dad explained why they were doing it, and then chuckled as my eyes got huge and I said “OHHHH!”

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    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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    Really wanna see a guy try to explain to the police why he hit a snowman with his car, trying to dance that line between not looking like he lost control of the vehicle but also not looking like this was a deliberate and malicious act.

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    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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    Let me guess: it was not the first time the asshole plowed a snowman there, and the kids were just smarter than the driver…

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      It was trivially easy to find him on Facebook… and after a moment of scrolling his page it becomes quite obvious that it’s all fake ragebait material. I suggest blocking and moving on.

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      I guess he was doing donuts in a public park or something like that to not know who built the snowman. Can’t drive there m8.