The Death Of A 7ft Snowman

[WHO]Them · December 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Why are teenagers so inconsiderate ?</div> Last night it snowed heavily for the first time in years here in Kent, Washington. So at about 10pm I decided I was gonna make a snowman, a BIG snowman. I got the bottom ball to around 4.5 feet in diameter (which was easily like 600 lbs) and got the second ball on top of that and put nice little mushroom guy lawn ornament on top for a head and surrounded it with snow so it was just the head popping out. All in all this snowman was taller than me by a good margin. And seeing as how I'm 6'3, I'm fairly confident that this snowman had passed the 7ft mark.

So, at around 2am I finish covering the snowman with water and decide to call it a night. I figure that I'll wake up today in the morning or afternoon and get a picture of my achievement to show off to all you forumites.

But oh no no. I go out there this morning and the only thing that hasn't been completely destroyed was the bottom ball (I assume the reason was because the thing had to be nigh indestructible). And even the bottom ball has gravel all over it (which was a giveaway to the fact that someone had been rolling it around a bit). And near the snowman, where I had left a board I had used to show oncoming drivers in the middle of the night that there was an obstruction just off the road, well that board had been tagged by some "<unreadable name> was here" crap.

Now, I know it was teenagers. Because I know I saw that same logo spraypainted on the stream culvert that runs under the road next to our house right after it was built. And the only people that had been around the new culvert the day that the concrete was put in was a group of 6 teenagers.

So, this sparks a few of my memories of highschool. I realized that my definition of what constitutes a jack@$$ has changed since I stopped being immersed in the teenage crowd.

So I have to ask, WHY GOD WHY DID MY SNOWMAN HAVE TO DIE BEFORE I COULD EVEN GET A PICTURE?!??!!!??!?!???

****, I guess I'm just venting.

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Standard Disclaimer: This is not to say that all teenagers are inconsiderate. Just that they have a higher propensity to be so by at least a factor of 10.

Zig · December 2003

sorry.. wish i coulda seen it too =\

Rellix · December 2003

Man that sounded cool, since your in the US if you put a sign saying Tresspassers will be shot sign up on your lawn you can legal shoot them as they approch next time, or build some sort of automated gun....

Zig · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Dec 31 2003, 10:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Man that sounded cool, since your in the US if you put a sign saying Tresspassers will be shot sign up on your lawn you can legal shoot them as they approch next time, or build some sort of automated gun....  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
0_0.

you're not.. from the US, are you..

lol, trespassers will be shot XD

Rellix · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Dec 31 2003, 11:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Dec 31 2003, 10:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Man that sounded cool, since your in the US if you put a sign saying Tresspassers will be shot sign up on your lawn you can legal shoot them as they approch next time, or build some sort of automated gun.... </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
0_0.

you're not.. from the US, are you..

lol, trespassers will be shot XD  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
No im in Scotland where we just beat people and say they started it and win because we say it was on our propterty.

That_Annoying_Kid · December 2003

man

I bet it was such a raw snowman them

thats bootsie that those kids got it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Sid · December 2003

Oh, the humanity. =(

DOOManiac · December 2003

Don't let teenagers get you down! Just speed up the process of Natural Selection (the evolutionary theory, not the game, though the idea will be similar)!

1) Rebuild Snowman. Don't let those Teenangsters win!
2) Stay up all night watching snowman
3) When Teenangsters show up, lock & load.
4) Dump bodies in nereby stream culvert.
5) Paint some symbol next to bodies so police thing some rival teenangsters did it.
6) Enjoy your new snowman, and take plenty of pictures!

In all seriousness, you should at least stay up and spray them with water (ice cold water, or scolding hot water, it doesn't matter) or do something to the sons of ****...

Gliss · December 2003

Do you realize I have never seen a snowman, except for the mutated ones in Calvin and Hobbes?!

California sucks.
Teenangsters suck.

DarkDude · December 2003

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> Get some revenge.

Build another snowman, (that is, if there is enough snow left) put on some white clothing, find a nice big stick (thorns are prefered), hide next to it around the time they last attacked, and get ready for some fun.

Or, if you don't like the violence (come on, who doesn't?) you could always get set up with a camera, take a few shots, then play around with them a bit in Photoshop. Post them around the neighborhood and laugh with glee. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Liku · December 2003

That sucks. I hate people like that.

[WHO]Them · December 2003

rebuilding isn't really an option for 2 reasons.

1. The snow is mostly melted. Not entirely gone, but it's devolved into useless slush.
2. I'm all sore from the first one. I'm really not kidding about how big the bottom ball was. I'm a huge guy (I weigh 300lbs) and had a hard time rolling this ball more than 2 feet at a time near the end. I reckon that it was quite literally the biggest manmade snowball in the state.

DragonMech · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Dec 31 2003, 04:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> lol, trespassers will be shot XD  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
And survivors will be shot again.

Sorry you lost your snowman, [WHO]them.

Moquiao · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Dec 31 2003, 11:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Dec 31 2003, 11:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Dec 31 2003, 10:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Man that sounded cool, since your in the US if you put a sign saying Tresspassers will be shot sign up on your lawn you can legal shoot them as they approch next time, or build some sort of automated gun.... </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
0_0.

you're not.. from the US, are you..

lol, trespassers will be shot XD </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
No im in Scotland where we just beat people and say they started it and win because we say it was on our propterty.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
ROFL Xiller....

OR... the fact this country is Fubared would gte us sued.. cos they fell on our lawn and broke theyre ankle! damn our hosepipes! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Diablus · December 2003

me and my friends a few days ago went driving around knocking over xmas ornaments, i chose not to wreck the expensive, large, and time consuming ones, but i did in fact drop kick a plastic slea and cut my leg, behiold the NY's teenagers when there bored with nothing to do

NumbersNotFound · December 2003

I feel ya', man... Last year me and a few friends made a 9ft tall snowman... the 2nd ball took three people and some plywood planks to get on.. it was huge.

Then some idiots came buy and knocked it over <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Jezpuh · December 2003

Don't let MonsE read about them teenangsters.

Windelkron · December 2003

build a miniature one anyway. Then watch it, and you said you're a huge guy... go show them what it means to be a big person. they shall cower

another good idea is this: build a "snowman" out of garbage bags filled with solid ice. then put a sign saying "please don't hit me." an **** in a car will come and want to hit the snowman, but since its ice, he will wreck his car
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

MonsieurEvil · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (JezPuh @ Dec 31 2003, 08:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Don't let MonsE read about them teenangsters.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
TOO LATE!!!! AAARRGGGGG DIE BIKE HELMET WEARING SUNNYD DRINKING SWINELETS!!!

Ok, I feel better.

Align · December 2003

....bike helmet? I take it those are fairly common where you live?

1/5000 to see someone wearing one here. Well, above the age of 10 at least.

Haze · December 2003

Man that sucks. If I knew who it was I would do as the others say...

<b><u>Steps for <span style='color:red'>REVENGE</span></b></u>

1.) Make a smaller snowman, use everything you have and can find, sneak into the neighbors backyard and steal some of his snow, whatever it takes.

2.) After completing smaller snowman, put a sign in front of it telling cars that there is an obstruction there, and then put another sign that says "Dont touch me" or something to that extent. You have to make them tempted...

3.) Wait...stalk the living heck out of the snowman. Always be by an area where you can see it, if you have to go to the bathroom go in the front behind the snowman, but disguise yourself as if your shoveling...something...

4.) When the teenagers return, watch them, see if they are into tearing up the snowman. When they are, go out the back door, sneak around behind them with a "trespassers will be shot" sign, and put it right behind them. Then get a fake gun, or make one before hand. Point the gun at them when they see the sign, and then (ummm...get ready? the forums dont let me use c0ck, you know, pull the hammer back, I'm not for gun terms) the gun. Scare the living crap out of em.

That happened with my dad once, he was comming home from being in the navy and some stupid kids were throwing snowballs at passing cars and one hit his. So he pulled over by that area where they couldnt see him, snuck up behind them with 1337 Navy sk1llz, and scared the living crap out of them. Man my dad rocks, he did that when some stupid kids played ding dong ditch on our house recently. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Jezpuh · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Jan 1 2004, 01:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (JezPuh @ Dec 31 2003, 08:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Don't let MonsE read about them teenangsters. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
TOO LATE!!!! AAARRGGGGG DIE BIKE HELMET WEARING SUNNYD DRINKING SWINELETS!!!

Ok, I feel better.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
heh col, he qutoed me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

CplDavis · December 2003

Sorry about your snowman <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Thats why when I made my snonos I made it in the back yard, less chance of some idiot kids comming by,

And if they had...

Barry the Snonos would have stomped and devoured them anyways. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Geminosity · December 2003

oop... me and some friends destroyed every snowman in our area but it was for a good cause; we were using them to build a giant wall of snow outside a friend's door. Took him most of next morning to get out and his sister missed her bus to work <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

ANeM · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Pjofsky @ Dec 31 2003, 03:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Do you realize I have never seen a snowman, except for the mutated ones in Calvin and Hobbes?!  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Heh.. Pjofsky, you just reminded me of something one of my friends made..
<img src='http://members.shaw.ca/karlyv/snowman.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Heeheehee..

CplDavis · December 2003

Anem:

AHAHAHAHA LOL Thats Awsome!!!! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Cereal_KillR · December 2003

as long as you don't think all teenagers are like this, then I guess I agree. Some people just think it's fun and cool to damage stuff (such as snowmen) and that makes them think they're somehow superior as if they were above the world. It's quite sad, I'd almost pity them if they weren't such jackasses <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

CplDavis · December 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cereal_KillR @ Dec 31 2003, 10:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> as long as you don't think all teenagers are like this, then I guess I agree. Some people just think it's fun and cool to damage stuff (such as snowmen) and that makes them think they're somehow superior as if they were above the world. It's quite sad, I'd almost pity them if they weren't such jackasses <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
LOOK I killed a snowman! I AM "elite" FEAR ME! I have awsome snoman bashing hax0r skillz.

I never understand why people do somethings.

Rellix · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Moquiao @ Jan 1 2004, 12:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ROFL Xiller....

OR... the fact this country is Fubared would gte us sued.. cos they fell on our lawn and broke theyre ankle! damn our hosepipes! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Sue them for damaging your precious lawn and thus by tresspassing at their own risk did unlawful damages that caused their injury, sorta like stabbing yourself to death with a kitchen knife.

Then sue for trauma as if your some sort of gardener religion person, and remember pretty much all of the US government is white, christain etc so ware a croosafix around your neck when your in court.

PanzerOx · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ANeM @ Dec 31 2003, 11:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Pjofsky @ Dec 31 2003, 03:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Do you realize I have never seen a snowman, except for the mutated ones in Calvin and Hobbes?! </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Heh.. Pjofsky, you just reminded me of something one of my friends made..
<img src='http://members.shaw.ca/karlyv/snowman.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Heeheehee..  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
bah, you gotta make snow pirahnas mauling him. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

sawce · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Diablus @ Dec 31 2003, 06:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>me and my friends a few days ago went driving around knocking over xmas ornaments, i chose not to wreck the expensive, large, and time consuming ones, but i did in fact drop kick a plastic slea and cut my leg, behiold the NY's teenagers when there bored with nothing to do</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
One thing comes to mind when I read this:

<i>You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch, You really are a heel,
You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch</i>

Them, that really sucks. I live in a small town, nothing like that really happens around here. Though I've never made a seven foot tall snow man (not made a snow man in years, actually), I did make some rather large ones considering the age I was when I made them. The closest thing I've come to seeing a snow man vandalized was having my dog maul a snowman I had just built. It traumatized me. :'(

The Death Of A 7ft Snowman

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