Snowzilla: Public Nuisance

Thanks to a tip from a former student (Addie McKinney) I see that Snowzilla (a two story tall snowman) has been abated in Anchorage.  From the introduction to the Anchorage Daily News story:

Anchorage's famous giant snow man, Snowzilla, finally met its match.

   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.

It was just a few years ago that 16-foot-tall Snowzilla arose in a residential yard in Airport Heights, launching an annual procession of local gawkers and an international media blitz.

[And then] ... "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."

So much for the holiday spirit, eh?  Anyway, this is just in time for your coverage of public nuisance in your spring property course.  Sounds like it's another great example for Jim Smith's law of yards.

Anyway, ho, ho, ho.....

Alfred Brophy