Any Footage of the Dead Snowman?

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Does anyone recall back in the '80s when the striking Miners built a snowman and the Police drove over it, so the next day they built another one. When the Police tried to run over that they go a big surprise. The Miners had built it over a concrete bollard.

Anyway, I've been digging around trying to find some footage of it without success. If anyone knows of a link to some I've love to know so that I can show it to my son.
 
Why?

And the story isn't quite how you said it:

One of the most humorous stories from the strike came from Kiverton Colliery, where the pickets built a metre high snowman and they had placed a small papier-mâché policeman's helmet on the snowman’s head.
One day, a police officer objected to the helmet on the snowman’s head and he told the pickets to remove it immediately, but they only laughed at him. However, the office was adamant and he told the pickets that if they did not remove the helmet he would instruct the driver of the police van to run over the snowman. The pickets could not believe that such an order would be given and they laughed at him once again. The officer gave the order and as the van raced towards the snowman the pickets shouted, 'Wait, wait, stop, you don't understand.' However it was too late, the van raced onwards on a collision course with the snowman, then all of a sudden it came to a thundering, shuddering, crunching halt. The pickets had built their snowman around a concrete bollard.
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Even better as the rule was a maximum of 6 pickets so the miners built a 7th picket as a protest. :D

And i don't think anybody filmed it. Back then people didn;t have phones with cameras so it would have to be very lucky for anybody to be there filming.
 
Greebo said:
Why?

And the story isn't quite how you said it:
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That's weird. I was certain that they had run a Snowman over the day before? Funny how the mind plays tricks.

As for Why? - My son is convinced it was an urban myth and that it didn't actually happen.
 
Not a myth, there was even a song written:

http://www.yorkshirefolksong.net/song_database/Mining - Coal/The_Super_and_the_Snowman.134.aspx

Full (and probably the right story) here

he Miners of Silverwood, having been told they were confined to six pickets only, built themselves a seventh comrade in the shape of a large snowman, wearing for good measure a plastic policeman's helmet.

Next morning, Chief Inspector Nesbitt appears on the scene and seeing the jeering miners and their steely eyed companion, ordered the constables to knock it down . This order brought rebellion to the police ranks as PCs declined to, "look so fu**ing stupid knocking down a snowman". "Very well," shouts the irate Nesbitt, jumping in his Range Rover and charging off to demolish the snowman, as pickets ran laughing for cover.

Maybe it was a trick of the light, or maybe a twinkle glistened in the icy countenance on the snowman's fixed expression - we shall never know, as the Range Rover made contact and came to a dead stop, smashing front grill, bumper and headlamps and hurling the shocked Nesbitt into the steering wheel. PCs found excuses to walk away or suppress body shaking laughter while pickets fell about on the ground with side splitting mirth. The snowman had been constructed around a three foot high two foot thick concrete post!

The above classic story is totally true and is from the book - 'All power to the imagination!' by Dave Douglass. You can buy the book online here(http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/furthread.htm)
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Most references to the incident refers to a Range Rover.
 
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Pretty irresponsible to not tell the police that there is a concrete bollard in the middle.
 
daz said:
Pretty irresponsible to not tell the police that there is a concrete bollard in the middle.
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Why? Who would've guessed a Chief Inspector would try and run over it with land rover in a childish rage fit?
 
daz said:
Pretty irresponsible to not tell the police that there is a concrete bollard in the middle.
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If you read the full story, once the miners realised he was going to ram it, they did try to tell him to stop (although not mentioning the bollard) but the arrogant inspector went ahead and rammed it anyway.
 
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