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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 ( 400) and jailed for 179 days.
"I'm going to have an ordinance drawn up to repeal this dumb law lest our already over-crowded prisons are filled up with children who [get] carried away and have a snowball fight, " the mayor said.
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