I was driving down Lane Avenue the other day when I was forced to swerve to avoid running over remnants of Frosty the Snowman’s body.
I laughed at the large, snowy spheres parked in the middle of the busy street. Frosty had been chilling on the sidewalk just hours earlier, and some pranksters apparently found it humorous to move him into harm’s way.
Eventually, a police officer arrived at the scene of the crime to clean up the remaining pieces of the slaughtered snowman, and that was the end of poor Frosty.
With the incessant snowfall that resulted in Ohio State’s fourth Snow Day in 10 years came an increase in snow art. In particular, one group of students constructed a variety of sculptures, from The Horseshoe to OSU President E. Gordon Gee to a football player in a Heisman pose.
My favorite construction was a Script Ohio standing up in the snow. Every time I passed by the monument, flocks of passersby stood in awe, BlackBerrys and iPhones busted out to nab a quick snapshot.
But not everyone was impressed. Some of the snow creations had to be rebuilt multiple times because of the immaturity and juvenility flowing through the veins of people with nothing better to do than knock them down.
It’s one thing to eat the carrot off of a typical snowman or cover up a basic snow angel. But there is no acceptable reason why people must ruin others’ hard work and effort.
After taking hours to produce remarkable creations, the works of art are wrecked in a matter of seconds.
How exactly do these idiots benefit from ruining something that the majority of people take pleasure in? What do these morons get out of it? They should get a heavily packed snowball to the face.
Police officers aren’t going to patrol miles of snow to watch for sculpture scandals, nor should they. We figure that people aren’t bored enough with their own lives that they feel the need to ruin someone else’s endeavors.
Eventually, the melting masterpieces will leave with winter. But why people will take the time to go out of their way to ruin such winter miracles is beyond me.
