Remember when you were a kid, coming home from school, hurriedly putting on your winter gear, and running outside to play with your friends for those few hours of light left? Sometimes sledding, other times making snow angels, and most fun of all having giant snowball fights? Well apparently kids from a town in Missouri will never have that opportunity or any of those fun times.
How about this for some winter fun? In Belton, Missouri it is actually illegal to have a snowball fight!!! As per their law, cited under "Throwing Missiles" snowball fights are in fact illegal. The actual law say in rambling and quite technical terms that "No person shall throw any stone, snowball, or any other missile upon any vehicle, building, tree, or other public or private property, or upon any person in any public or private way or place or enclosed or unenclosed grounds."
So basically, for those of us without law degrees who aren't used to copiously reading through multiple paragraphs of script all pertaining to things that could have easily been stated much more legibly (so people could actually understand), no one can have a snowball fight there. Ever.
Although I can actually see the merit to this law, protecting public and private property from destruction, it still shouldn't lead to a law banning harmless childhood fun! Sure, people could be mean and do the things mentioned in the original law such as throw things at vehicles and possibly causing an accident or onto property, causing costly damages but that's no reason to outlaw snowball fights! Someone could even get injured but hopefully you're cognizant enough of the fact that a snowball fight is brewing or already in place around you to avoid being hit.
It's hard enough for kids today to be motivated enough to go outside and play with their friends, why not let them have some sort of outlet after spending all day in school? We should be encouraging kids to play, not banning it!
