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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - bam - 12-23-2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Dec. 22) - Snowzilla is no more. Municipal officials in Anchorage have given a cease-and-desist order to builders of the giant snowman that made appearances the last three years in an east Anchorage neighborhood.

The giant snowman was a favorite for photographers and camera crews from Russia and Japan filmed the temporary sculpture. Snowzilla in 2005 rose 16 feet. He had a corncob pipe and a carrot nose and two eyes made out of beer bottles.

He was built in the front yard of the Powers family home and Billy Powers said his children collected snow from neighbors homes to add to the height and breadth.

The snowman was built even higher in succeeding years, but not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors who came to see him.
City officials deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard.
A few weeks ago, code enforcers left red signs at Snowzilla's bottom body ball telling its builders to cease and desist. The city also tacked a public notice on the door of the Powers home.

City officials said the structure increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the snowman itself was unsafe.

When the notices went up, Snowzilla still didn't have a full torso or head.
"The kids had spent hours and hours of work on it," Billy Powers said Sunday.
Now, Snowzilla is just a big pile of snow rubble. Powers said he doesn't plan to rebuild.

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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - Michman - 12-23-2008

Some politicians need to get a fucking life. I would think they have bigger problems to solve.

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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - Ntype - 12-23-2008

morons like that should be spanked in public for having such a determined need to destroy joy when it appears around here.

fuckers people where coming FROM JAPAN to shoot that and they get annoyed of all the traffic ?

Get a life, build a giant snowman on some municipal point, setup a "christmas shopping area" nearby, setup some cultural events "the giant snowman festival"...

You had such a nice momentum and you break it...fuckers.

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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - bam - 12-23-2008

Michman Wrote:Some politicians need to get a fucking life. I would think they have bigger problems to solve.

One would think so...

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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - quint - 12-23-2008

looks harmless
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051220/051220_snowzilla_hmed.hmedium.jpg

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28358077/

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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - PinesChic - 12-23-2008

poor Frosty.

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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - quint - 12-23-2008

can the snowman see russia too?

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Snowzilla the Giant Snowman is Banned - BIRD33 - 12-23-2008

How much increased traffic could it have caused in Alaska?What 10 cars a day?Im outraged!

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