--- title: Snowman Gets Revenge on Person Who Tried to Drive Over It description: When a vandal tried to run over a snowman in Kentucky, the driver was in for a rude awakening about what lay hidden in its base. canonical: https://time.com/5506868/snowman-revenge-kentucky/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-18T16:15:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:00.970Z og:title: Snowman Gets Revenge on Person Who Tried to Drive Over It og:description: The photo says it all og:url: https://time.com/5506868/snowman-revenge-kentucky/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Snowman Gets Revenge on Person Who Tried to Drive Over It twitter:description: The photo says it all twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Snowman Gets Spectacular Revenge on Unworthy Adversary Who Tries to Drive Over It > Sponsored content. 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Well, sometimes that applies to [snowmen](http://time.com/3683432/weather-forecast-winter-blizzard-language/), too — at least, that’s the lesson an unlucky vandal learned this week after attempting to take down a 9-foot-tall snowman in Petersburg, Kentucky. Area resident Cody Lutz built the giant snowman, christened Frosty Stumps, with his fiancée and her sister after the area experienced a hefty bit of snow. They decided to use a huge stump as the base of their creation, giving it a solid foundation from which they then established its impressive height, as documented by Lutz [on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218424071054312&set=a.1591123779223&type=3&theater). For some reason, a snowman-hating passerby decided that Frosty Stumps was not meant for this world, and — based on the tire tracks visible in the snow — made a beeline for the big guy, trying to drive right through it. Instead, the vandal was summarily stopped by the hidden stump in its base. “Life is hard, but it’s much harder when you’re stupid,” Lutz commented on his Facebook post about the failed attempt at taking down his creation. “Instant Karma!” Lutz [told local news](http://www.fox19.com/2019/01/16/instant-karma-front-yard-frosty-with-tree-trunk-base-teaches-ky-driver-valuable-lesson/) about the incident. “It’s hilarious! You know, what goes around comes around, in good ways and bad ways. So, I guess everyone learns a valuable lesson here from Frosty.” And we all learn never to look at a snowman the same way again — because you just never know what he might be hiding. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5506868/snowman-revenge-kentucky/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5506868/snowman-revenge-kentucky/"},"headline":"Snowman Gets Spectacular Revenge on Unworthy Adversary Who Tries to Drive Over It","datePublished":"2019-01-18T16:15:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:00.970Z","description":"When a vandal tried to run over a snowman in Kentucky, the driver was in for a rude awakening about what lay hidden in its base.","url":"https://time.com/5506868/snowman-revenge-kentucky/","keywords":["Newsfeed","weather","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5506868/snowman-revenge-kentucky/","name":"Snowman Gets Spectacular Revenge on Unworthy Adversary Who Tries to Drive Over It"}}]}] ```