Spoiling the fun

[The PIT]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4317605.stm

Okay you can bring knifes into school but you can't have a Snowball fight. More likely one or two went astray during the fight and Snow in the UK is now a rare advent. Detention would have done or rather a stiff telling off.

[rugger]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4317605.stm

Okay you can bring knifes into school but you can't have a Snowball fight. More likely one or two went astray during the fight and Snow in the UK is now a rare advent. Detention would have done or rather a stiff telling off.

While I believe detention would be better, the article doesn't suggest the children were not able to have a snow fight, just that the location and the targets of said snow fights were inappropriate and causing danger.

The situation is obviously more complex then the short news article indicates, but I am sure there was an appropriate reason for the suspensions.

[Paddy]

I think throwing snowballs at cars is highly stupid and dangerous.

[Umfriend]

Over here we tend to agree, especially after a 13-year old was shot dead after hitting a car with a snowball.

[KvHagedorn]

Over here we tend to agree, especially after a 13-year old was shot dead after hitting a car with a snowball.

Thought you had no guns in the Netherlands.

[Umfriend]

Sorry, missed this one for a while.

Yes, unfortunately we do. Drug dealers, Hells' Angels and some robbers got them. Some bona fide people have them too, licensed and all. It is indeed possible to get a permit here and have the weapon at home, including ammo. It is illegal to have one without getting a license which isn't to hard to get, but there is some screening involved. The killer above was indeed a drug dealer.