US mayor to overturn snowball ban - Democratic Underground

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US mayor to overturn snowball ban

A Kansas mayor has said he will repeal a "dumb" city regulation banning the throwing of snowballs - shortly after inadvertently breaking it himself.

Bill Bunten, mayor of Kansas' capital, Topeka, found out about the rule after a high school student wrote to him.

He replied confessing he had recently hurled a snowball himself, and said he would ask for the law to be revised.

Under the code, anyone caught throwing a snowball in public can be fined up to $499 (£290) and jailed for 179 days.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4570720.stm

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