Wisconsin city mulls dumping old ban on throwing snowballs

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For decades, those who have participated in snowball fights in one Wisconsin city have risked getting in trouble with the law. But that may be about to change.

National Geographic goes in search of the hidden Jerusalem and what it looked like during the time of Jesus.A 1962 ban on throwing projectiles in Wausau lumps snowballs into the same category as rocks and other items that can cause serious harm.

City Council President Lisa Rasmussen said that recent negative national attention over the rarely used ordinance has raised questions about whether it could be time to take snowballs off the naughty list. “Maybe it's worth giving a look to see if that list could be amended, to mitigate that odd news story that keeps coming up like a bad penny,” Rasmussen said."A fun snowball fight is a fun snowball fight," Deputy Chief Matt Barnes says in the video, “and that's not something we enforce this ordinance.”

The video ends with Barnes clocking Wausau Mayor Robert Mielke in the back of the head with a snowball. Barnes said the department has used the ordinance to write about 10 tickets in the last 15 years, according to Wisconsin Public Radio News. The citations included cases of people shooting crossbows into a neighbor's yard, dropping sandbags off the roof of a downtown parking ramp and, on two occasions, throwing snowballs at passing cars.

 

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More Socialism by Democrats, changing culture to any fun will be under Government control either by Fed or State. They should butt out

Is that the same city where you risk prison if you have sex w. a donkey? bollocks

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