http://www.nj.com/news/lo...ahway.html
RAHWAY --She was a frosty Venus de Milo, but one Rahway family’s snow-packed tribute to the Greek goddess of love and beauty was another person’s pornography.

Maria Conneran and her family worked feverishly to fashion their armless, nude snowlady from last week’s heap of snow, grabbing attention and photographs on Rahway’s Colonia Boulevard.

Not all the attention was good, however.

Among the visitors was a patrolman dispatched to the Conneran household after Rahway police received an anonymous complaint "of a naked snow woman," said Sgt. Dominick Sforza.

She sure was, the family gleefully agreed.

"Curvaceous, bodacious and booty-licious," said Elisa Gonzalez, a court reporter who built the snow goddess with her daughter, Maria Conneran, 21 and son, Jack Shearing, 12.

"But she had a six-pack!" Conneran said.

When the officer arrived, Gonzalez said, he was apologetic and appreciative of the snowlady and her assets.

"He said, ‘It’s very good,’" Gonzalez recalled.

Despite his appreciation, the officer then asked the family to dress the snowlady. Nonplussed, they complied with a green bikini top and a blue sarong around her ample hips.

"I thought she looked more objectified and sexualized after you put the bikini on," Gonzalez said.

Conneran and Gonzalez said the visit from police reminded them of former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s move to drape a semi-nude statue of the Spirit of Justice when he arrived to lead the U.S. Justice Department.

"(Our snowlady) looks like marble. It looks like a statue," Conneran said. "Are you going to go to the Met and cover up all the statues?"

William Torres, visiting the neighborhood from North Carolina, agreed the snowlady should have remained au naturel.

"They’re censoring art," Torres said. "To me ... that’s no different from what you see in a museum ... and its lifespan was short anyway."

Indeed. On Monday, the family took down the snowlady, because with the return of warmer weather, she was starting to melt away.

The Venus di Milo may be gone, but the Connerans said they will continue their work with the next snow. This was not their first foray into famous snow sculpture.

Last January, the family created a realistic bust of newly inaugurated President Obama.



Why would anyone complain about a snow sculpture made in the form of classic art like that? These "defenders of morality" who find the snow sculpture "offensive" probably defend the right of everyone owning a gun and their country spending billions of dollars on some stupid war but god forbid someone makes a "nude" snow sculpture! And why wouldn't the police just ignore the complaint? Doesn't the police force over there have something better to do with their time?
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look, some american kid would have had his dick stuck in that snow sculpture had they not covered it up...they prevented a frostbitten penis...that is always a good thing...Americans are foward thinkers...

thejason said:

That explains why it does not snow in places like Florida.

what's next, a bra on the Grand Tetons?

Where's johnart? They need his help dressing her.

purplehippieonthe1 said:

this, to me, is the great irony of clothing.

The more you cover, the more taboo the whole thing becomes, and soon ankles are driving men out of their minds once again.

NDRU said:

That would be one BIG bra!
They are beautiful BTW.
Anyone covers them up, I will personally slap them.

Genesia said:

They totally added 10 pounds to her hips.

<--headed to Jersey with a flamethrower.

Betina said:

Jealous bitch. Go stand in your corner.

a frostbite penis would suck

NDRU said:

ZombieKitten said:

Is that the next size above yours?

isn't it complex when neither of the family members have the same last name ?

0x41414141 said:

I didn't even spot that.
Yeah, that might be confusing in America, but where I come from it's not uncommon. The only difference is these folks have different family names but we have a different name system which causes the difference in last names: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...andic_name

purplehippieonthe1 said:

What do you expect from a country that covered up a statue of lady justice when Ashcroft was running the department.

American's are idiot.

johnart said:

lazycrockett said:

American's what are idiots?

0x41414141 said:

Not especially, no.

i expect they have these on every other street in Quebec.

thejason said:

AWESOME!

This is something you´d expect from a country like Iran, Saudi Arabia or Yemen...not the USA, socalled land of freedom.
It´s interesting that a lot of people don´t seem to have a problem when Christians censor art but they all freak out when some Muslims feel offended by nudity or other sexually offensive stuff.

As far as I´m concerned, art should never be censored , regardless of its potential to irritate certain folks.And those uptight people shouldn´t even talk about America being the land of freedom again because they are living proof that that is definitely not the case. Fucking hypocrites. No wonder that those same uptight, conservative folks dislike Muslims....they´re both like two different sides of the same coin.

Time for true believers in freedom to raise their voices.

johnart said:

They were just tryin'ta keep it classical and shit

KoolEaze said:

So now you get a hint as to why I'm not going back there, right

Ottensen said:

The US is great if it weren't for some American's.

Ottensen said:

Well, I understand your reasons but....if I were an American, I´d probably move to some very liberal, openminded place (Bay Area or Southern California? Hawaii?) and not live in a conservative area.Then again, most places in America are much more conservative and uptight than, say, Germany or Holland.

I really love America as a country and I think we should not lump all Americans together but, personally, I could not live in a state that is very conservative.

Lordy, chile!
The last time I had
a body like that, I was
13 years old... And a boy.
Bless the lord

KoolEaze said:

Smart man.

at the end of the day, it's just a snow sculpture that some tight asses got into a tizzy about...it's not the first signs of a total police state taking over...it really isnt that serious...

as for the Torres guy...it wasnt art, dude...it was a snow man with great tits...

it really, really isnt that serious....