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"a picture is worth a thousand words, a moving picture is worth a million words" Pearson
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Post by Pearson on Dec 7, 2018 10:09:46 GMT -8
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wildmaven
Fear the Flying Flocks of Fiery Fury!!
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Post by wildmaven on Dec 7, 2018 11:41:43 GMT -8
makes me wonder if you have any weird or outdated laws in your town. I live in California. All laws here are weird.
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📚 Dianne 📚
"Never Judge A Book By Its Movie"
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Post by 📚 Dianne 📚 on Dec 7, 2018 12:35:39 GMT -8
I've never been wrong. Once I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken about that. *snort,-snicker and maybe even a chortle*
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♥ ℒʊ√ ♥
Clouds float into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Post by ♥ ℒʊ√ ♥ on Dec 7, 2018 13:16:50 GMT -8
My guess is that damage from rocks and ice embedded in snowballs was to blame for the ban. People getting pelted in the face might not have been as much of a concern as broken windows, etc. Glass a century ago was far less durable than it is today. Foundries weren’t engineering complex compounds like anything we have today. Nor were the frames around the individual panes capable of absorbing an impact’s force the way modern weather seals allow. And they were single-pane in thickness, to boot! But if that was the case, I would think far more cities/towns in Colorado, or the state itself, would have imposed a ban, not just one small town.
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Post by wildmaven on Dec 7, 2018 13:38:16 GMT -8
My guess is that damage from rocks and ice embedded in snowballs was to blame for the ban. People getting pelted in the face might not have been as much of a concern as broken windows, etc. Glass a century ago was far less durable than it is today. Foundries weren’t engineering complex compounds like anything we have today. Nor were the frames around the individual panes capable of absorbing an impact’s force the way modern weather seals allow. And they were single-pane in thickness, to boot! But if that was the case, I would think far more cities/towns in Colorado, or the state itself, would have imposed a ban, not just one small town. Unless it was a local politician who was hit by said initial snowball.
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Clouds float into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Post by ♥ ℒʊ√ ♥ on Dec 7, 2018 15:02:56 GMT -8
Unless it was a local politician who was hit by said initial snowball. Ha, wildmaven , you may have solved it.
As someone who lives in cold, snowy winters in a town that had factories all along our riverbank, we never instituted such a ban all those years ago.
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Derek‽
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Post by Derek‽ on Dec 7, 2018 15:50:29 GMT -8
My guess is that damage from rocks and ice embedded in snowballs was to blame for the ban. People getting pelted in the face might not have been as much of a concern as broken windows, etc. Glass a century ago was far less durable than it is today. Foundries weren’t engineering complex compounds like anything we have today. Nor were the frames around the individual panes capable of absorbing an impact’s force the way modern weather seals allow. And they were single-pane in thickness, to boot! But if that was the case, I would think far more cities/towns in Colorado, or the state itself, would have imposed a ban, not just one small town. Not if they didn’t have a cluster of incidents (malicious or true accidents) within a short period of time. More fragile glass would only be one variable in the equation; human injuries likely played some additional role. You’d almost certainly need an actual trigger to prompt the passage of the law, even if that trigger was a series of flukes. Growing up in Ohio, I frequently heard about snowballs being illegal in some town somewhere in the area, perhaps even my own, but I don’t think I ever believed it. Urban legends and such (or just whining about a world gone PC, which usually accompanied such false legends, I don’t know), but I suppose more towns than anyone realized might have had ordinances against snowballs at one time or another. Maybe.
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Clouds float into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Post by ♥ ℒʊ√ ♥ on Dec 7, 2018 16:55:35 GMT -8
]Not if they didn’t have a cluster of incidents (malicious or true accidents) within a short period of time. More fragile glass would only be one variable in the equation; human injuries likely played some additional role. You’d almost certainly need an actual trigger to prompt the passage of the law, even if that trigger was a series of flukes. Growing up in Ohio, I frequently heard about snowballs being illegal in some town somewhere in the area, perhaps even my own, but I don’t think I ever believed it. Urban legends and such (or just whining about a world gone PC, which usually accompanied such false legends, I don’t know), but I suppose more towns than anyone realized might have had ordinances against snowballs at one time or another. Maybe.
Found the answer. Just a small town decision based on "classification".
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Derek‽
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Post by Derek‽ on Dec 7, 2018 21:17:13 GMT -8
♥ ℒʊ√ ♥, the use of the word “missile” did stand out to me in the NPR article, but I assumed something must have prompted that classification. I never would have guessed the snowballs received their status from such a vague definition by the town’s government.
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Clouds float into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Post by ♥ ℒʊ√ ♥ on Dec 7, 2018 22:23:15 GMT -8
Derek‽ , as someone who lives in a small town (and does love it), it doesn't surprise me. Small towns can have some of the strangest ordinances. And attending some of the council meetings illustrates just why that can be.
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