"Children throwing snowballs in public could be arrested or fined "

[krispos42]

Children throwing snowballs in public could be arrested or fined
Children who throw snowballs in public places could be arrested or fined under measures to cut down on anti-social behaviour.

Last Updated: 1:26PM GMT 03 Feb 2009


Police have vowed to crack down on youngsters caught "acting irresponsibly' following the worst snowfall to hit the UK in 18 years.

Those found throwing snowballs in such a way have been warned they face arrest, a fine, or both.

The new measures have been introduced in Hertfordshire after a small number of youths damaged motorists' cars.

A spokesman for Hertfordshire Police said: "The warning was made to remind people who were throwing snowballs that throwing one through a car window isn't a good idea.

"If a snowball went through a window screen that could cause danger to someone's life."

Chief Inspector Nigel Brown added: "What may seem like high jinx at the time could have a detrimental effect on the safety of others, and you could be arrested.

"Anyone who is causing anti social behaviour or who is acting irresponsibly in these current conditions could be subjected to criminal charges.

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It's probably a good thing the UK doesn't get snow. I don't think they could handle the fun more than once a decade anymore. :eyes:

I sure am glad to see that the 4.4 million police-monitored surveillence cameras are going to be used to prevent any kind of tragedy.

[Canuckistanian]

1. In my whole life in Canada , I've never seen a snowball break a windshield

Or any other window, for that matter. Especially ordinary snow thrown by a kid.

Yes, you can pack wet snow down into an ice ball with enough work, but I think kids have enough sense not to throw something as solid as a rock at a car.

[YOY]

4. Methinks Inspector Nigel Brown isn't thinking too hard about things or has little experience in snow

n.t.

[krispos42]

5. I broke a garage window once with a heavy wet snowball

I remember it distintly. I wasn't aiming for the window; my throw went high.

It impacted the glass and stuck. There was a tiny pause, then a crack competely encircled the snowball and the entire thing detached and fell inside.


However, there's a hell of a difference between a garage window and two thick layers of tempered safety glass with a layer of plastic bonded between them.


If a 2x4 as long as my arm kicked up by a semi and hitting my windshield at highway speeds couldn't break it, no snowball on earth can.

[SIMPLYB1980]

10. I have. In Boone I had a kid throw a snowball with a stone inside of it,

at my car and break my window. Lucky for me a campus cop saw it happen, the kid (around 13) was held by him until his parents got their, and his parents agreed to replaced my window. I didn't press charges. I'm just glad my window was up or I might have wreaked my car if that had hit me in the head.

[tsuki]

12. When I lived up there, we only got one wet snow in the fall. The

rest was powder. Hard to make a snow ball with powder.

[sandnsea]

2. We had to go speak to the cops

because an errant snowball hit a window, when my son was 13. Stupidest shit ever and I told the cops so. However, throwing snowballs was against school rules and that was Montana. It was the kids own fault, they packed the snowballs and put rocks in them, don't know what else the school could do in the long run.

[bluestateguy]

3. British

:eyes:

[TwilightGardener]

6. Wow, where's that stiff upper lip I keep hearing about? Whining over snowballs, fer chrissakes.

[lpbk2713]

7. "Why... them little tairists."

Off to Gitmo with em.


:rofl: :rofl:

[treestar]

8. I remember a juvenile delinquent throwing snowballs at me

on the way home from school. They did hurt. No severe injury, though. He might have packed them hard or had stones in them.

[nichomachus]

9. Hitler wasted all that money on bombs

He could have brought Britain to its knees with snowballs.

Who knew?

[Earth_First]

11. I'd like to encourage a campaign to begin throwing snowballs...

at the 4.4 million police-monitored CCTV cameras in the UK.

'Breaking the Police-State One Snowball at a Time'

[Javaman]

13. What's all this, now? nt