Wisconsin city may end its old ban on snowball fights.
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.Associated Press
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