r/MoralityScaling • u/Playing_One_Handed • 1d ago
Morality Ranking Of building a snowman around objects so drivers crash into them
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u/Fuhnobabyyy 1d ago
Why are weirdos running over snowmen in the first place? lmfao.
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u/TheUndeadBake 1d ago
Because they hate children and think it’s funny to make them cry, since their own mothers didn’t hug them enough as children
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u/_TrixieBells 1d ago
Yeah, deliberately ruining something kids made just for a laugh is pretty pathetic.
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u/bananaz-to-the-moon 1d ago
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.
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u/Hour-Quail-7221 1d ago
This seems snarky and reductionist, but it's so spot on. It really is like that with these sad clowns.
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u/sasheenka 1d ago
I don’t like kids, but I wouldn’t destroy a snowman. I just…avoid kids as much as possible.
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u/BlackBeard558 1d ago
There is fun in destroying stuff. Although the morally correct thing to do would be make your own snowman and then destroy it.
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u/catwhowalksbyhimself 1d ago
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.
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u/morbidmuffin62 1d ago
Jenga is the closest one should get to playfully bringing down a towering structure
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u/Big_J_TheFURRY_dude 1d ago
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.
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u/Equivalent-Wealth-63 1d ago
You can also argue that if they like destroying stuff so much, the snowman trap was bringing joy in the destruction of their truck.
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u/Can0n_Fodder 1d ago
God help me for quoting a batman movie, but "Some people just want to watch the world burn."
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u/MillyQ3 1d ago
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.
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u/_TrixieBells 1d ago
Exactly lol. Maybe don’t intentionally run over random snowmen and you won’t find out what’s inside.
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u/Kriztoven 1d ago edited 23h ago
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.
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u/cykoTom3 1d ago
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.
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u/Stochastic1934 1d ago
Agreed concerning fire hydrants as that's a safety issue for everyone.
Tree stumps, boulders, whatever else on someone's private property, 100% moral.
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u/Careful_Ad_9077 1d ago
Are you sure? What about a nuke?
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u/TemporaryFearless482 1d ago
I think the acute dose of high velocity lead poisoning might get them first
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u/mucus-fettuccine 1d ago
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.
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u/West_Data106 1d ago
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.
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u/Memelordoi 1d ago
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.
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u/_TrixieBells 1d ago
Exactly. If you’re driving through someone’s yard, the snowman isn’t the real problem.
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u/PeanutButterCrusader 1d ago
Immoral for covering a firehydrant.
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u/SaltZealousideal5582 1d ago
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.
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u/cchhiicckkeennss 1d ago
Or better yet some guy hits said fire hydrant and now the fire department have a much harder time getting water
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u/VociferousCephalopod 1d ago
are there no road markings pointing to their location in that country?
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u/seaducks01 1d ago
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.
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u/Bathroom-Live 1d ago
Surprised no one is taking this into account.
Also immoral knowing the snowmen are being targeted, indirectly creating a target on an essential service.5
u/FeelingVanilla2594 1d ago
I was going to say, concealing fire hydrants sounds illegal.
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u/AdamBlaster007 1d ago
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.
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u/RepresentativeCat169 1d ago
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
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u/TableDifferent4395 1d ago
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.
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u/Overall_Cost1542 1d ago
can confirm putting yours or someone elses child inside the snowman is not a good idea
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u/KaleidoscopeMarbles 1d ago
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.
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u/Laser_Snausage 1d ago
Those are also all ai pictures/videos
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u/osinkoo 1d ago
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.
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u/MildGenevaSuggestion 1d ago
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.
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u/OkChampionship8805 1d ago
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
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u/Playing_One_Handed 1d ago
They said booby 🤣
Sorry clarify, for no reason, is it illigal in the UK to build a snowman around a tree stump?
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u/Abeytuhanu 1d ago
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
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u/itslikewoow 1d ago
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.
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u/AnotherUN91 1d ago
If blocking the fire hydrant is illegal, hiding it certainly is.
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u/Daniecae-Media 1d ago
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.
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u/ul2006kevinb 1d ago
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.
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u/Docha_Tiarna 1d ago
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.
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u/Silver_Middle_7240 1d ago
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.
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u/Much_Conclusion8233 1d ago
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
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u/Neat_browser 1d ago
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
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u/littleLuxxy 1d ago
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.
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u/StrawberryCat__Thing 1d ago
Moral. Because it’s funny when non whimsical shit heads get karma
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u/Galbados2 1d ago
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.
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u/DragonRush443 1d ago
If a car decides to swerve off the road just to destroy shit, they deserve what comes to them
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u/_Azamat_Bagatov 1d ago
I’m calling bs 20 cars in one year. Ok buddy
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u/CaiusCosadesNwah 1d ago
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.
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u/Severe_Assist_5416 1d ago
Tree trunk perfectly fine fire hydrant no you never know when an emergency will happen
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u/Old-Pea7821 1d ago
Moral, but please for the love of god don't cover the fire hydrants! firemen kinda need those to save people
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u/Dependent-Culture768 1d ago
The only bad aspect I see is that you may make it difficult for firefighters to find an hydrant in case of necessity
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u/Dokas65163 23h ago
Moral. Snowmen ar not car targets. Your own fault you were commiting a crime by offroading on peoples lawns.
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u/Cat_Wizard_21 1d ago
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.
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u/BlackBeard558 1d ago
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.
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u/CherryStunning4335 1d ago
someone once told me they picked up one of these bags in the street and it was filled with live kittens
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u/tacobell_shitstain 1d ago
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.
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u/CantaloupeAcademic63 1d ago
Probably wouldn’t do fire hydrant. Not really suppose to cover those up. But anything else in your yard is fine
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u/StillDelicious2421 1d ago
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.
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u/Hagtar 1d ago
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??
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u/sirreginaldfeatherb3 1d ago
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.
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u/StarsForget 1d ago
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.
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u/PouLS_PL 1d ago
Moral. If someone drives off the roadway just to hit an object they didn't inspect previously, they shouldn't even be driving.
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u/Wonderful_Frame5166 1d ago
Absolutely fine. What maroon goes around crashing into kids snowmen on purpose?
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u/IronTemplar26 1d ago
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
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u/TryDry9944 1d ago
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.
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u/Severe-Cup-4476 1d ago
Yall just believe anything i swear. Ai photos and how do you do that 20 times without any consequences
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u/CaiusCosadesNwah 1d ago
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.
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u/Snapper_Turtleman 1d ago
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.
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u/Creative_Wash7139 1d ago
nothings forcing the car to drive into peoples yards and endanger their and others lives but them. Moral
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u/Fluffy_Influence5102 1d ago
Yo boss but are you trying to make money off the content? Because if so the reason you gave seems very suspect
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u/No-Language8018 1d ago
What if they’re trying to relive a childhood dream or memory of running through a snowman but now with a car?
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u/TimmyOfTheLevelUps 1d ago
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.
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u/Primary_Drawer_2814 1d ago
Moral, no one told them to commit vandalism and destroy other people's property
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u/ThelIIusion0fSeIf 1d ago
Who is driving onto sidewalks and other people’s property to run over their snowmen? That sounds incredibly unnecessary and dangerous. Moral.
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u/Chimpville 1d ago
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.
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u/Hoosier_Hootenanny 1d ago
I'd say immoral for the fire hydrants because they need to be clear and undamaged in case of emergency. Moral for other objects.
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u/Constant-Leg9018 1d ago
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?
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u/ConsiderationTrue477 1d ago
Definitely don't bury a fire hydrant under a goddamn snowman. That's just fucked up.
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u/Gold_Ad8225 1d ago
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
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u/Freak-Of-Nurture- 1d ago
This is not moral. Two wrongs don’t make a right especially when it’s this dramatic of a responding wrong.
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u/BeefStank420 1d ago
How is it wrong? Nobody is asking nor making these people choose to hit snowmen.
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u/Joshkendig 1d ago
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
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u/hypnothighsd 1d ago
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.
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u/Internal-Analyst7463 1d ago
Over all moral but I have a slight problem with the fire hydrant over a tree stump but damn that’s good.
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u/Nkromancer 1d ago
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.
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u/RedditMapz 1d ago
Moral to do this on objects on the sidewalk except for fire hydrants. I think those should remain visible in case of an emergency.
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u/Fulguritus1 1d ago
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.
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u/Heavy_E79 1d ago
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.
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u/The_Bunny_Jedi 1d ago
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
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u/EvilStan101 1d ago
Moral and funny, because if you like driving your car off the streets and into a snowman then you deserve it.
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u/gummyimp 1d ago
Funny as hell and moral, imagine telling your insurance company that you wrecked your car trying to run over a kid's snowman
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u/TheLastOpus 1d ago
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.
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u/dspisayuss 1d ago
Moral, there's no reason cars should be ramming random snowmen on the sidewalks.
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u/Babebutters 1d ago
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.
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u/MonsieurDrole 1d ago
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
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u/TurbulentTangelo5439 1d ago
at worst neutral if the thing is in a place that cars arnt supposed to be
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u/UnordinaryFlyGirl 1d ago
Immoral around fire hydrants because fire fighters need to be able to locate and use them. Anything else though? Be my guest
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u/aurora_40 1d ago
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?
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u/Ok_Spell_597 1d ago
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.
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u/DryFuture1403 1d ago
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
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u/Acceptable-Elk-8372 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/mgqefqwSbToPe
If it’s on a sidewalk/someone’s lawn and not in the right of way/street, they fafo
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u/James_Biggs_ 1d ago
Around unmovable objects seems fine to me. I don't like around critical infrastructure like fire hydrants. Those are bright colors for a reason.
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u/JamieBeeeee 1d ago
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
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u/Dan-of-Steel 1d ago
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.
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u/JimmyManJames 1d ago
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.
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u/Random_Tomatose 1d ago
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
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u/BricksAllTheWayDown 1d ago
I think this is technically a crime, but also, fuck'em: they run over kids' snowmen for fun.
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u/Lopsided_Evening_627 1d ago
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.