Snowman with noose appalls neighbors

[The Straight Story]

Snowman with noose appalls neighbors

HAYDEN, Idaho - A White separatist drew complaints from neighbors and a visit from law enforcement officers after building a snowman shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan on his front lawn.

Kootenai County sheriff's deputies told Mark Eliseuson Wednesday that he could be charged with a crime because the 10-foot-tall snowman was holding what appeared to be a noose. Deputies were called by neighbors who were appalled by the pointy-headed snowman with two dark eyes.

Hayden for decades earned notoriety for being near the former rural compound of the Aryan Nations.


http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2010/12/02/20101202idaho-snowman-with-noose-kkk.html

[hobbit709]

1. Put the noose around the snowman's neck.

[deutsey]

2. "pointy headed" in oh so many ways.

:evilfrown:

[Somawas]

3. "A crime"? That's absurd.

Eliseuson could have been charged with creating a public nuisance. Idaho law defines such a nuisance as anything "offensive to the senses" or that interferes with the comfort of an entire neighborhood. Eliseuson removed the noose and toppled the snowman after he talked with officers.

What he says is both offensive and dumb. But to accuse him of a crime for saying it is more offensive, at least to me. We still have a First Amendment.