Cold weather brings out the best and worst in us. It's human instinct to lend your neighbor a hand with the shoveling, or donate some coats to the needy when Mother Nature is pummeling us with unrelenting cold. We're all in this together. But the freezing temperatures also heighten the collective tension, driving us inside or forcing us to do weird, sometimes crazy things to cope with seasonal depression.

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Minneapolis residents turn frozen jeans into yard art as temperatures plunge.https://t.co/szMotvLyUx — NBC News (@NBCNews) January 19, 2016

In Minnesota—where one can safely assume that it's cold as f*** all the time—folks are placing slightly damp pants outside, allowing them to freeze, and then standing them in their front yards. This is unsettling for a number of reasons.

When you're driving through icy winter conditions, you don't want to be distracted by disembodied pants silently judging your commute. You don't want to constantly be reminded that your neighbors are somewhere out there, possibly not wearing pants. You don't want to consider at every turn in your neighborhood the possible existence of ghosts, or invisible people invading your house. You don't want to see these pants going to waste outside, when you could be wearing them as another layer of protection against the bitter elements.

We already get it: It's cold outside. We don't need these pants to once again point that out. Please stop with the creepy frozen ghost pants.

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Frozen Fun: how people in icy temperature states are amusing themselves with water & pants @6:25 on News 10 Today. pic.twitter.com/MJ8liLM9Pr — WILX News 10 (@wilxTV) January 19, 2016

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