Indiana Snow Penises Given Generous Local News Coverage (VIDEO)

Lafayette, Indiana has a snow problem on their hands, but it isn't the "snowpocalypse" everyone else has been talking about.

Local news station WLFI 18 filed this generous report about a neighborhood that was quite upset with one house's lawn decorations: snow sculptures representing male genitalia.

Neighbors who called the police said they "showed up, laughed and left" but later investigation revealed that under a state statute for "obscene matter" the creators of the snow penises could have received misdemeanor charges if they hadn't taken them down.

Who would have known a couple of suggestively shaped snow piles could cause this much of an uproar? We don't know how detailed these things were, but the sculptor must have made them pretty life-like to offend so many people.

Watch the detailed news report below to see just how gripped this small town was by the sculptures, which we imagine gave new meaning to the term "snowman." (Via Buzzfeed)

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Comments

[dojinho]

01:45 PM on 01/04/2011

Male genitals = controversy.

Bombing of countless innocent civilians in multiple countries with drones = Wow!

Liquefying people with high frequency gun firing from a helicopter = Cool!

Operation "Shock and Awe" as an opener to the invasion of Iraq = Awesome!

Americans have to get their priorities straight! There are things much more obscene than sculptures of body parts... like for instance the scattered body parts of the innocent people killed on a daily basis by the american arsenal.

[DurangoSteve]

01:41 PM on 01/04/2011

I liked the comment from the woman that her son "doesn't even know what those are."
Uhm, look down, little fella.

[Sockme]

10:00 AM on 01/04/2011

Americans are such prudes.

[DumpsterBaby]

01:06 PM on 01/04/2011

yet the #1 consumers of porn in all of its forms!

[robk06825]

08:43 AM on 01/04/2011

Did use the snowblower?

[SteveDenver]

06:31 AM on 01/04/2011

Snow and penises… you never know how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.

[Sue Reiss]

10:49 AM on 01/04/2011

Nor when it is coming

[extremelymoderate]

02:10 AM on 01/04/2011

What will they ban next? Snow balls?

[extremelymoderate]

02:09 AM on 01/04/2011

Now if the penis had been on a snow man I could see it being a little disturbing.

[jo smith456]

08:51 PM on 01/03/2011

ok here it is: http://www.globalpost.com/gallery/japan/100316/japans-penis-and-vagina-festivals

[jo smith456]

08:51 PM on 01/03/2011

can't believe someone scrub my post about the penile festival in japan...

[impatient]

06:23 PM on 01/03/2011

There was SO much comedy potential here! They could have made a big blue pill out of snow and had a before and after "sculpture". Or take pictures of it daily deflating as the temperatures rose. Or DECORATE it. Piercings maybe. Or tattoos.

Such a waste.....

[Charlie Sitzes]

03:49 PM on 01/03/2011

Well, I suppose the next to go is Michelangelo's David.

[ManWithAComment]

01:47 PM on 01/03/2011

Evidently, things are a little slow in West Lafayette, Indiana.

[Js420]

10:21 AM on 01/03/2011

Oh those religious american jihadist

[CPAwADD]

10:13 AM on 01/03/2011

The largest white one since Uncle Miltie passed. (Or so legend has it!)

[Sans Octavian]

05:43 AM on 01/03/2011

Eeck, a penis...Eeck!