30-foot Tall Snowman Terrorizes Neighborhood

I just saw on the Weather Channel that a family in Nebraska built a 30 foot tall snowman.  He's a kind of skinny guy, but it's pretty impressive.  According to this very short article, they built the first fifteen feet using boards and a snow-blower.  (Cheaters!)  Once it got too tall to build from the ground, Dad pulled out a ladder and his kids threw him snow.  I can't even imagine having enough snow in my yard (or the entire county for that matter),  to make any size snowman, much less one that wouldn't melt before nightfall.  I don't even remember the last time it snowed here.  It's such a rare event that we'll even consider sleet snow sometimes.  Hey, it's frozen and (kind of) white.  We make do with what we've got.  When we get a "blizzard", we might be able to clap together a snowball.  Anyway, back to Frosty's cousin!  This enormous snowman in Nebraska (they've named him Luigi) took 3 days to make.  I love the traffic cone they used for the nose.  They used plates for the buttons and eyes. 


But the thing that really caught my attention?  Check out this next photo:

Can you see his mouth?  Do you recognize what they're using there?  BRICKS.  They've got bricks packed into the snow on the front of this thing.  Now, it may make for a nice smile on the snowman, but all I can think of is what is going to happen when it starts melting??  Or evaporating, for that matter - I'm sure there is plenty of wind 30 feet up.  Bricks are going to fall from 20 to 30 feet in the air!  Did nobody think of this yet?  Do they have a safety perimeter set up around Luigi to keep spectators safe from falling bricks?  Is this a designated hard-hat area?  All I can say is, what were they thinking?  This family has built uber-snowmen before.  Last year their record was 26 feet.  So maybe they've got practice with masonry mouthing and falling bricks.  Who knows?  But I think someone should make a public service announcement to the residents of Kenesaw, Nebraska.  Keep an eye on the sky, your children, and pets.  The sky could be falling today! 

Photos found here.