All those times you saw snowballs in the cartoon that ran away, grew big and picked up dogs, fence palings and people as they rolled?
You could never replicate it on the slopes.
Except you could, with a bit of willpower like a couple of math majors at Reed College, Portland.
Egged on by a crowd, the pair made s nowball big enough to roll along a footpath on campus, which was great until it started rolling on its own and escaped them.
“The ball just got away from them,” college spokesman Kevin Myers told MyNorthwest.
It rolled about five metres before smashing into a dorm room, causing some $3000 in damage.
A worker who had to slice it up for removal said it weighed about 350kg.
But if you think that’s a little underwhelming, here’s an impressive effort with a snowball that gathers snow AND wipes a guy out: