(CNN) – The city council in Wausau, Wisconsin, is looking to tweak a nearly 50-year-old law prohibiting throwing snowballs within city limits.
Don’t worry — the residents of the central Wisconsin town haven’t been deprived of a half-century of winter fun.
But the text of Wausau Ordinance 9.08.020, enacted in 1962, might make you think otherwise. It reads this way:
“No person shall shoot any objects, arrow, stone, snowball, or projectile by hand or by any other means at another person at, or into, any other building, street, alley, sidewalk, highway, park, playground, or other public place within the city.”
After being discussed at the Wausau City Council’s Public Health & Safety Committee meeting on Dec. 16, the amendment, which strikes the word “snowball,” must still be approved by the full council at its meeting next month.
David Adams
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