Cops Kick Down Woman's Snow Penis

[matcom]

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New Windsor - What, some might ask Jessica Sherer, is with the giant snow penis she built on her boyfriend's lawn this week?

As everyone knows, phallic displays were central to Viking winter solstice celebrations of fertility and rebirth. Yeah. So what.

And readers of this paper surely know that phallic rituals were as much a part of the Hopi Indian winter festivals as the Hawk dance.

But down on Quassaick Avenue, around the corner from the New Windsor Elementary School, the 6-foot tall, anatomically correct, finely detailed penis raised some questions Monday.

Especially for police.

"We got some calls that people thought it was offensive," said New Windsor police Chief Michael Biasotti. "We assumed it was some kids who did it."

Officers found no one home. Assuming the snow sculpture was more prank than nod to Christmas' pagan roots, the police knocked it down. Beat it down with shovels, actually.

"We came back around 11 in the morning, and it was just a pile of snow," recalled Sherer, 19. "Just some shovel marks."

Sherer, um, erected the statue with her boyfriend and another friend Sunday. She said she was surprised to hear some neighbors took offense.

Motorists honked their approval, and people walking by pointed and laughed, she said.

"People were waving and laughing," she said. "It was pretty funny."

No citations or criminal violations will be issued for the display, Biasotti said. The town codes prohibit lewd signs on businesses, but don't mention anything about public snow sculptures.

"We probably weren't 100 percent correct in going on the property and knocking it down," New Windsor Town Supervisor George Meyers said. "But our intentions were pure. Some people were offended. There are school buses going by there all day."

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/12/14/news-jdsnowball-12-14.html

[WillParkinson]

1. Sigh...

Yes, the human body is something to be reviled. Isn't she aware of that?

[In_The_Wind]

2. That SUCKS!

and property rights

NO TRESPASSING!

[Pithlet]

21. That smilie!

:rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

28. That smilie was purely an editorial comment ...

Not a statement of personal preference ...

[JI7]

3. google "snow penis" in images

[matcom]

4. there are some VERY creative people in this world

:D

[Deja Q]

8. Or people with too much time on their hands...

who'd benefit more from the genuine article...

[DainBramaged]

19. So much fun it is to ride on a one penis open sleigh

http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode42.htm

I bet EVERYBODY is in awe of these works of art.

[NaturalHigh]

51. A feminist backlash against a Harvard snow penis?

Wow, somebody must need something to be pissed about pretty badly to get worked up about that.

[Bassic]

5. Oh their intentions were pure...

Well I guess it's all right then, it doesen't matter that they overstepped their authority, they had good intentions so who can blame them?

Pff, Winter solstice festivals, where do they get off celebrating pagan rituals? :sarcasm:

[StaggerLee]

6. thanks for these newsclips Matcom

I get a kick out of sending the links to my co-workers.

:hi:

[AzDar]

7. LOL...so they "beat " her "meat"??? In view of an elementary school??

Now THAT'S obscene!

[Evergreen Emerald]

9. I am too visual for my own good

I imagine the police beating the giant penis with shovels. Too funny.

[StaggerLee]

11. must...stop...giant...phallic

...sculpture

Can you imagine a crime fighter like Batman or Superman battling the evil Snow Penis?

:freak:

[Loonman]

10. Sexist!

No snow vagina?

[RumpusCat]

25. I made a snow vagina once!

It was tradition at my college that when we got our one decent snow a year (this was in TN) our dorm would pile outside and erect a giant snow penis. The last year we got such a large amount of snow that we were able, for the first time, to make a snow vulva as well. It's harder to do--you basically make a big mound and then carve out the details, but we had hot pink chalk spray paint and that made it, uh, stand out better. :evilgrin:

[Arugula Latte]

52. Well, at least you were putting your education to good use.

Anatomy and all that.

[myrna minx]

12. Freedom is on the march! n/t

[Hugin]

13. *flinch*

...

[Loonman]

14. Way too Fraudian

I mean Freudian. Freud was full of shit, but he'd geta kick from cops smacking a big penis down with shovels.

[RandomKoolzip]

15. "Snow Penis" was my nickname in college.

Because my love is cold as ice and twice as hard, baby.


Oh, and because it melts at room temperature. That's the part after the asterisk, if you know what I'm sayin'.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. OMG! There were SCHOOLBUSES!

And no children that I know or have ever known had any idea what a penis is...

What a bunch of fuckin' ninnies.

We used to celebrate our sexuality ritually and publicly - phallic symbols, totems, the pregnant women statues, all that good stuff.

Then comes along "civilization" and now penises and breasts and vaginas are bad. Bad, I tell. Filthy, rotten, horrible bad.

[kick-ass-bob]

17. only half of them. the virgin girls are too pure to know about that sort

of stuff.

[Hugin]

18. Where's my soap?!?!

It's "Lifebouy" for you!

[tigereye]

31. but not as bad as tacky Christmas cards, eh?

he he.

[redqueen]

47. And seeing a snow penis, well you know that could ruin a person!

Seeing a snow penis could make them promiscuous! Or gay! Or drug addicts! It's UNGODLY!

[Tari]

20. Look at the size of those snow balls!

It could've been worse.





They could've erected it in front of a giant santa.

[ronnykmarshall]

22. What a prick!

[Misunderestimator]

23. Some friends and I made snow penis when we were in college.

We made it over mailbox though... would have loved to see someone kick it.

[Wapsie B]

24. I'd say it was unbelievable

but I know that Puritans have undue influence over sex in this country.

[qnr]

26. It would be funny if the police were required to reconstruct it :) n/t

[yellowcanine]

27. "Beat it down with shovels"???? Ouch. I have heard of some strange ways

of masturbating but that is ridiculous.

[JVS]

29. I guess the town has a no-sex-threads type rule. Doesn't seem unreasonable

[graywarrior]

30. Did they stop them from making snow balls?

[tigereye]

32. ohhhh

:rofl:

this is a very silly thread. I like it.

[bullwinkle428]

34. Have you had a look at the "before" picture?

Anatomically correct! :rofl:

[bullwinkle428]

33. God forbid those kids on the buses actually find out

what a penis looks like!!! :eyes:

[matcom]

35. well, i'm sure SOME of them are Catholic

:hide:

[yellowcanine]

36. If they don't know they will probably learn ON the bus - at least if their

bus is anything like mine was in high school.

[yellowcanine]

37. "Penis" is such an entertaining word anyway don't you think.? It is almost

as funny as some of the nicknames for it. Try substituting "penis" randomly for a noun in just about any sentence and you will see what I mean.

e.g. I can't do my math homework because I left my book at school.....
I can't do my math homework because I left my penis at school.

[Parche]

38. cops

Those cops are a bunch of Pricks..............

[KamaAina]

39. Ah, memories...

a group of us in college in Conn. decided we were going to create a snow sculpture right on the main quad. The result, shall we say, belonged to the same genre as Ms. Sherer's; we titled it "Oblong, yet Subtle".

"Oblong, yet Subtle", ephemeral masterpiece though it was, was certainly no six-footer; what did she do, crush Viagra pills and sprinkle the dust over the snow?! :spank:

[AntiCoup2K4]

40. R.I.P. Dicky the Snow Penis

Latest casualty in the "War on Christmas" :evilfrown:

[LaraMN]

41. That's it ! I'm making a giant snow tit in my front yard, this weekend.

It will balance out the karma.

[yellowcanine]

45. You can't just make ONE. You must make a PAIR. One boob just isn't

right, somehow. How will you pigment the areolas?

[LaraMN]

46. Easy- dirty snow.

Got plenty of that around.

[Left Is Write]

42. "We probably weren't 100 percent correct"?

Yeah. You're right, George. You weren't.

[qnr]

43. I know what you mean, still, I give him a very small amount of credit

for admitting it to the media. I know of many that wouldn't dream of doing so.

[yellowcanine]

49. Saying "we're sorry, we made a mistake." is so pre 9-11. George doesn't

admit mistakes so why should we?

[undeterred]

44. They "beat it" together

Now there's a lovely public ritual!

[Fleshdancer]

48. down here in TX, we can't make snow penises

so many of you cold weather people take your snow penises for granted. And now people are beating snow penises down with shovels? Y'all just don't know how good you have it, do you?

[NaturalHigh]

50. Pictures of A snow penis.

No this isn't THE snow penis in question, but somebody did a pretty good job on this one.

Snow Penis