A five-year-old boy's snowman was destroyed by a neighbour wielding a shovel, in an incident captured on CCTV. The footage shows the man hacking away at the four-foot sculpture on Monday afternoon.
Steve Curtis, 35, had spent 45 minutes building the snowman as a surprise for his son Jacob, after the boy's first attempt was knocked down. The snowman stood on the pavement by the front door.
Mr Curtis set up his phone to film the snowman after returning from a walk to find it destroyed. The footage shows the elderly neighbour clearing snow from around his car before walking over and slicing the snowman's head off with his shovel at 2.45pm.
'What kind of miserable git deliberately destroys a little lad's snowman?' Mr Curtis said. 'The snowman was nowhere near his car, it wasn't doing any harm.'
Jacob made a wooden cross for the spot where his snowman once stood. After posting the footage on social media, Mr Curtis received an outpouring of support from outraged users.
