Dramatic CCTV footage shows snowman brutally destroyed by 4x4 driver in hit-and-run outside Leeds firm

Staff at Farmac Building Supplies got in on the snow fun on Tuesday when they sculpted a 6ft snowman outside their firm's HQ on Richardshaw Road in Pudsey.

But they found the snowman had crumbled this morning, only to discover CCTV footage of a driver smashing the snowman to smithereens - before they came back to finish the job!

The dramatic video shows a 4x4 hurtle into the snowman and knock it over in a completely unexpected drive-by hit-and-run.

But if that wasn't bad enough, the 4x4 driver then turns around and comes BACK for another pop, driving their car over the slushy snow-corpse remains to make absolutely sure the deed is done and there's no coming back from the ice for the company's snowman.

James Casey, from Farmac Building Supplies told the Yorkshire Evening Post the company's orders tend to go a bit quieter when it snows as it gets a bit difficult driving around Pudsey in the snowy weather.

He said: “Whilst we were quiet, the lads decided to get on with building the snow man and they got it to be 6ft tall so we thought it would stay there for a while.”

However, on early arrival to work this morning they were disappointed to see it was gone.

“We looked back on CCTV and someone driving in a 4x4 had knocked it over in the night – must have thought it was a good target.

“We were all very sad to see our snowman gone this morning.”

The video was all in good fun, of course, as James and staff followed up the security footage with some tongue-in-cheek slow-mo shots to express the depth of their bereavement.

It comes a day after binmen filmed themselves knocking over a snowman in Harehills in an apparent spoof of a national story in which a binman was fired for destroying a child's snowman.