{"id":1380643,"date":"2018-12-04T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/snowball-fights-now-legal-in-little-town-of-severence-colorado-after-boys-quest\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:15:03","slug":"snowball-fights-now-legal-in-little-town-of-severence-colorado-after-boys-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/snowball-fights-now-legal-in-little-town-of-severence-colorado-after-boys-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowball fights now legal in little town of Severence, Colorado after boy\u2019s quest"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Associated Press<\/a><\/span> SEVERANCE, Colo. (AP) \u2014 A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small northern Colorado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights, and he already knows who his first target will be \u2014 his little brother.
\nDane Best, who lives in the often snow-swept town of Severance, presented his arguments at a town board meeting Monday night, and members voted unanimously to lift the ban.
\n\u201cI think it’s an outdated law,\u201d Dane said in the lead-up to the meeting. \u201cI want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble.\u201d
\nDane’s mother, Brooke Best, told The Greeley Tribune her son had been talking about snowballs since he found out about a month and a half ago that it was illegal to throw them within town limits. The last time it snowed, Dane said he and his friends looked around for police and joked about breaking the law.
\nKyle Rietkerk, assistant to the Severance town administrator, said the rule was part of a larger ordinance that made it illegal to throw or shoot stones or missiles at people, animals, buildings, trees, any other public or private property or vehicles. Snowballs fell under the town’s definition of \u201cmissiles.\u201d
\n\u201cAll of the kids always get blown away that it’s illegal to have snowball fights in Severance,\u201d Rietkerk said before the meeting. \u201cSo, what ends up happening is (town leaders) always encourage the kids with, \u2018You have the power you can change the law.’ No one has.\u201d
\nThen Dane took up the cause, writing letters with his classmates in support of overturning the ban.
\nAnd after Monday night’s success, his 4-year-old brother Dax had better watch out. When board members asked Dane during a meeting in November who he wants to hit, he pointed at his little brother.
\nDane and his family have researched other Severance ordinances, including one that defines pets only as cats and dogs.
\nDane has a guinea pig, which is illegal in Severance, too. …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEVERANCE, Colo. (AP) \u2014 A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small northern Colorado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights, and he already knows who his first target will be \u2014 his little brother.
\nDane Best, who lives in the often snow-swept town of Severance, presented his arguments at a town board meeting Monday night, and members voted unanimously to lift the ban.
\n\u201cI think it’s an outdated law,\u201d Dane said in the lead-up to the meeting. \u201cI want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble.\u201d
\nDane’s mother, Brooke Best, told The Greeley Tribune her son had been talking about snowballs since he found out about a month and a half ago that it was illegal to throw them within town limits. The last time it snowed, Dane said he and his friends looked around for police and joked about breaking the law.
\nKyle Rietkerk, assistant to the Severance town administrator, said the rule was part of a larger ordinance that made it illegal to throw or shoot stones or missiles at people, animals, buildings, trees, any other public or private property or vehicles. Snowballs fell under the town’s definition of \u201cmissiles.\u201d
\n\u201cAll of the kids always get blown away that it’s illegal to have snowball fights in Severance,\u201d Rietkerk said before the meeting. \u201cSo, what ends up happening is (town leaders) always encourage the kids with, \u2018You have the power you can change the law.’ No one has.\u201d
\nThen Dane took up the cause, writing letters with his classmates in support of overturning the ban.
\nAnd after Monday night’s success, his 4-year-old brother Dax had better watch out. When board members asked Dane during a meeting in November who he wants to hit, he pointed at his little brother.
\nDane and his family have researched other Severance ordinances, including one that defines pets only as cats and dogs.
\nDane has a guinea pig, which is illegal in Severance, too. …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1380643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 22:25:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}