Man hits snowman, snowman’s head hits car window

LAPORTE, Ind. – LaPorte police said they will not charge a motorist who drove his pickup truck into a snowman, sending its head flying through a nearby vehicle’s window. \nPolice said 33-year-old Thomas Ross agreed to pay the $600 cost of repairing the shattered window.\nTwenty-eight-year-old Amanda Boes says she saw the gray Ford pickup truck accelerate into the snowman Saturday. The head of the snowman landed on the back window of a parked car belonging to Boes’ mother.\nPolice found the truck parked nearby and said Ross admitted to being the driver.\nAfter Ross promised to pay for a new window, police ordered him to provide a written copy of the cost estimate.