Have A Nanny-Statey Christmas
December 26th, 2008 at 7:21 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesThe fun police never take a holiday – even in Palinland.
It wasn’t the weather. It wasn’t angry neighbors bearing shovels and pick axes.
It turns out Snowzilla’s biggest foe — the one who felled the controversial but much-loved giant — was a notice-bearing city code enforcement officer.
That’s right, Snowzilla was abated.
The locals don’t have much in the way of Christmas spirit, so they went to the little totalitarians at City Hall and had the massive snowman beheaded permanently.
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 on Sunday.
City officials involved in the cease-and-desist order could not be reached for comment on Sunday.
But on Dec. 11, the city notified the Airport Heights community council about its decision to abate Snowzilla, telling council members that the two-story snowman caused increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the structure itself was unsafe.
The city also asked council members to watch out for continued construction and to consider weighing in on Snowzilla at an upcoming, council members said.
Who’da thunk Alaska would go all nanny-statey on us? What a shame.
h/t Tanya B.
December 26th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Thank God the council had the good sense to stop this fiasco!! Sweet Jesus, making snowmen on their private property, what were they thinking??
This is just the type of activity that leads to other things too!! You know, pretty soon you’ll have kids sliding down hills on sleds, tossing snowballs at one another, singing in groups on doorsteps, putting up those awful lights on trees, it just never ends.
Shit, next thing you know, they’ll be letting people pass lit candles at Church on Christmas Eve.
This is the “Age Of The One” we’ve no time for this Holiday nonsense!!
December 27th, 2008 at 2:19 am
This is funny and yet sad all at the same time
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December 27th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I think I speak for everyone when I say that we should all meet at the Barack Obama Tolerance Square at the intersection of Martin Luther King Blvd. West and Rosa Parks Boulevard South to hold hands and pray that Snowzilla’s rights as a Blizzo-American are finally recognized.