Boy 'crushed by giant snowball' A 10-year-old boy died after being crushed by a giant snowball, it was reported today. Police refused to name the youngster or release any further details of the incident, but the boy was named locally as Peter Strang, according to the Daily Record newspaper. The accident happened at about 5.45pm on Saturday in Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Grampian Police said. The death was "the result of a tragic accident", a police spokesman said. The primary school pupil apparently died playing with a friend after a "giant snowball" rolled down a hill and engulfed him. Local minister Norman Nicoll told the paper: "It seems there was a giant snowball the boys had made themselves. "Apparently it rolled and unfortunately Peter was caught under it. "The boys had just gone out there to play and then something like this happens. It's very difficult to find words to explain it all." There were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident and a report is to be sent to the Procurator Fiscal. The boy's parents, Hamish and Carol, were too upset to comment. http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/16928654?source=PA
Well, that's one way of dying which will never occur in Houston. Drive-by shootings.... well, that's a different matter. -- droxford
The snowball denied allegations back at headquarters, but the police persisted, and dangled carrots in front of its face in an attempt to get the snowball to talk. But Its mouth was buttoned shut. It wasn;t talking. When that failed, the police brought in more heat and the snowball cracked, and leaked everything.
How the heck does a big snowball roll over and consume a kid? That must have been one huge snowball. How did it even stay together? What were those kids thinking making a killer snowball?
My god, I mean that's the kind of death you'd write in a black comedy or something, how does that happen in real life?
I live in central Pa and we get a bit of snow (actually it's snowing right now). I remember when we were younger we would make giant snowballs. We have some pictures of my brothers and I with snowballs bigger then us.
Guess the kid didn't see the snow ball coming, or he would have stepped out of the way. How big can the snowball be? I have made one when I was small that was like maybe 5 feet diameter, rolled it down the hill it wasn't that fast.
Not to contribute to the comedy going on in here but this is truly something I would expect in a cartoon...like when trying to squash the roadrunner.
come on come ON!!! lets get serious with this, enough with all the speculation - lets hear the damn facts!!! cartoons have proven to us time and time again that a snowball as small as the radius of a penny can start to roll due to a random breeze, once it starts rolling, it not only picks up mass along the way, but also gains momentum. the kids were at the bottom of a hill making snowmen, but what they didn't realize was that frosty wanted them dead. the snowball, which was at one time only the size of a mint, headed their way - growing and growing - getting faster and faster, it was on path to miss them when mr. death came into the picture, blowing a gust of wind which redirected the path of the snowball to the poor old kid. Poor ol' kid right? WRONG. this kid steals satellite signals. It's theft too! remember that next time you're watching your "free" satellite TV.
Aww come on. Nobody's saying that the death of this kid is funny in a malicious way, but you've got to admit, it's an odd circumstance that can and will (hell, already has been) joked about.
