Hero 9-Year-Old Gets His Town To Overturn A Ban On Snowball Fights
Source – 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 — his little brother.
Dane 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.
“I think it’s an outdated law,” Dane said in the lead-up to the meeting. “I want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble.”
Dane’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.
“All of the kids always get blown away that it’s illegal to have snowball fights in Severance,” Rietkerk said before the meeting. “So, what ends up happening is (town leaders) always encourage the kids with, ‘You have the power you can change the law.’ No one has.”
Then Dane took up the cause, writing letters with his classmates in support of overturning the ban.
When board members asked Dane during a meeting in November who he wants to hit, he pointed directly at his little brother.
This is the kind of social activism we need amongst our youth. Dane was sick and tired of not being able to throw snowballs at his little brother, so he got off his ass and did something about it. Good for him. The fact that snowball fights were illegal in the first place is a joke. Snowball fights are part of growing up. I used to LOVE snowball fights. As long as I didn’t get whitewashed, which makes you think you’re going to suffocate to death, I would have a blast.
The key was to prepare your balls. They need to be compact and wet so they don’t fall apart when you throw them. If you were really good you’d mix in just enough ice so that you could whip it without having to worry about it falling apart. My neighborhood would have a whole operation going. You’d have a group of guys making the snow balls and another group of guys throwing them. And then when the opposite side ran low on balls, we’d rush their trench and engage in hand-t0-hand combat. That’s when we were young.
When we got a little older, we’d go out at night and start launching them at cars. That’s where the real fun started because that’s where the real danger was. God forbid you get caught you end up getting…wait for…YELLED AT. What a nightmare. The key was to throw the ball before the car came so it would explode on the windshield. Those were the days. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t launch a few snowballs off my fire escape last year for old times’ sake. No ice, though, now that I’m an adult I can’t afford to get in trouble.
The point is this, Dane’s hatred of his little brother ended up being a good thing. The children of Severance, Colorado have no idea how much better their lives just got thanks to Dane. Hopefully he drills the shit out of his brother. I’m sure deserves it.