The assault on Frosty was caught on tape when homeowner Matt Williquette set up a motion-sensitive video camera in a tree in his yard because the snowman had fallen victim to two earlier attacks.
The inflatable, the biggest figure in his Christmas display in suburban Colerain Township, was punctured with a screwdriver Sunday night, for the third time.
Williquette had used white masking tape to patch over Frosty the first two times.
"The question I have is, 'Why me?' And why Frosty?" Williquette asked. "I had more (decorations) to put out there but with Frosty going down, I wasn't going to chance it."
Police said they arrested one young man at his Colerain Township home and the second turned himself in.
At one point Monday, the sheriff's office, which investigated with the Colerain Township police department, said in a statement: "The investigation continues to snowball."
In a separate act of holiday vandalism, a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were charged Monday with criminal damaging. Authorities accused the two of taking a decorative candy cane from another Colerain Township yard early Saturday morning and smashing it on the owner's vehicle, causing $1,000 in damage.
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That's so mean ruining peoples decorations like that
That stuff isn't cheap and people spend the money to enhance the excitement and fun of christmas.I can't blame him not wanting to put out other stuff as the little bastards would probably return.
We have the same thing happening in our area, but what they're doing is taking everything people put out.
Some wake up to nothing left on their houses at all. We've a big mechanical bear outside that lights up and a lot of other stuff, and if I see anyone near it with bad intentions I'm going to go postal on their arse lol The poor bugger was already knocked down yesterday, but it could have been the wind , but I'm keeping my eye on it just to be sure
Any chance on getting a pic?