February 24, 2003 6:05 AM

Well, thankfully the snowwoman wasn't holding a gun

Police field complaint about busty snow woman

Just think what might have happened if she'd been doing something criminal- like selling drugs or robbing convenience stores....

KENT, Ohio - Crystal Lynn went for realism when she built her snow woman - celery for the eyes, a carrot for the nose and two blobs of snow for the breasts.

The last turned out to be a no-no, as someone complained to Kent police about what he called an indecent snow figure.

And a police officer showed up at her apartment door minutes after she completed her work.

"He said that I should cut off her breasts, but I said no woman wants that," Lynn, 35, said.

She didn't want to knock down the snow woman. And the figure was too busty to be covered by a shirt. So Lynn opted to drape a ruffled maroon tablecloth around her shoulders.

Kent Capt. James Goodlet said the incident began at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday with an anonymous call from a man about the "inappropriate snow figure" on First Avenue.

Goodlet said the officer didn't demand that Lynn alter her artwork, but she left the conversation thinking she would be arrested for disorderly conduct if she didn't comply.

"We would have had to have someone file a complaint," Goodlet said. "We wouldn't have charged at that. We were treating it almost as a neighborhood domestic situation."

He said the dispatcher considered the call to be serious - not a prank call.

But Lynn was flabbergasted.

"I didn't think there was anything inappropriate about it," said the self-described housewife. "I just wanted to play in the snow."

She said she called the police after the officer left. When she realized the officer was just passing on a caller's complaint, she took matters into her own hands, stripping the tablecloth off the snow woman so that she could be exposed in all her glory.

Thank God the streets of Kent are now safe for good God-fearing citizens- if not snow women....

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