Similarly, after its 'snowball ordinance' became the subject of national news coverage, the city of Wausau, Wisconsin chose to remove the word 'snowball' from a list of dangerous objects specifically prohibited from being thrown on public property. In 2018, the town council of Severance, Colorado unanimously overturned one such ban after hearing from a local youth. Several localities have passed ordinances prohibiting snowball fights, typically as part of a larger prohibition on thrown missiles. The law, if it ever existed, is not presently enforced. In 1472, the city council of Amsterdam allegedly prohibited snowball fights for reasons of public safety, a prohibition which occasionally finds its way into lists of strange laws. A large, organized snowball fight on the lawn of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh in January 2016.
