From a local paper:

Snowman smasher to pay for windshield


Laporte, Indiana:

Laporte police say they don't plan to charge a motorist who drove his pickup truck into a snowman, sending the head flying into the air and crashing down onto a parked car's window.

Police say Thomas Ross, 33, has agreed to pay the $600 cost of repairing the shattered window.

Amanda Boes, 28, says she saw the gray Ford pickup accelerate into the snowman Saturday. The head of the snowman landed on the back window of a car belonging to Boes' mother.

Police found the truck parked nearby and Ross admitted to being the driver.

After Ross promised to pay for a new window, police ordered him to provide a written copy of the cost estimate.