I don’t find this comment to be particularly amusing.
I could just see the trial.
Defense Lawyer’s opening statements:
"*This case is not only a waste of the tax payers time and money, but the they are not even charging the real offender.
Allegedly, my client’s alleged, tiny glove was found at the seen, however, ballistsics will show that, from the angle in which the victim was hit, does not correlate to angle to where the glove was found.
So, if it is my clients glove, which it is not, he could not have possibly been the thrower, be cause of the angle of the impact does not match the angle of the glove site.
Not only is the real thrower still out there, but ballistics will also show that there is a second thrower, possibly from the snowy knoll, by the fence.
DNA tests will also show that mucos found on the glove and on the remains of the snowball, does not belong to my client.
So ladies and genlemen of the jury, you will find my client is not the booger picking thrower he is made out to be, he was even put in at firstbase on his little league team, because of his erratic throws.
You will have no choice, provided the evidence, or lack thereof, to find my client, not guilty.
When found innocent, my client, OJ Oswald, will spend the rest of his days searching for the real throwers.
Well, that is until he has to go to his gramma’s for Christmas*".
Not an issue around here. If we get enough on the ground to make a snowball with, they call school off.
when snowballs are outlawed, only outlaws will have snowballs.
Luckily, there’s still spitballs: our last defense against tyranny.
Join me, wikkidpis, in establishing the NSA!
Daniel
Frankd6
Sounds like where I live… 
Well, no school I ever attended had rules against snowballs. Of course, every school I’ve ever attended has been in sunny California, but I don’t think that detail is at all relevant.
What is relevant is the continued degradation of the term, “politically correct.” Can we not, at long last, agree that this term is entirely meaningless? No offence to the OP,* but as has been pointed out, nothing about this story that even remotely relates to so-called “political correctness.” In fact, the term has been so cruelly over-used that it has become the debating equivalent of “Nazi”: it’s what you call the other side when you don’t have any legitimate arguments.
In fact, I want to propose an ammendment to Godwin’s Law. In an act of supreme and abject humility, I propose Miller’s Corollary: Anyone who has to resort to calling someone “politically correct” has tacitcly admitted that their position is indefensible, and all their further arguments can be henceforth ignored.
I’d like to see this take effect as soon as possible, as Duck Duck Goose just accused me of being politically correct in another thread shortly before burying me in an avalanche of cites and well-reasoned arguments against which I have no other defence.
[sub]*Well, maybe just a little[/sub]
Snowballs are white and they represent White Power?
Snowballing discriminates against people in hotter states/countries?
Snowballs are dangerous and given the current McFattyKids climate, the school doesn’t want lawsuits flying even more frequently than snowballs over injured darlings?
I understand that the schools want to protect themselves from liability.
But I’ve never heard of a school that encouraged snowball throwing. My memory of elementary school was that the teachers/administrators frowned upon snowball-throwing, but you could get away with it if you didn’t do it right in front of a playground monitor, or if it didn’t become a brawl. They had their eye on you, and if a rock found its way into a snowball, they would interrogate until someone cracked. And you didn’t want that to happen to you.
What bothers me about these no-tolerance rules is that they’re concerned only with activities themselves, not with attitudes that can turn a playful activity into something vicious, or conditions that could be changed to keep a potentially dangerous activity safe.
When I was in grade three, I was involved in a game of War. Girls against boys. Well, I forget who was chasing who, but I slipped while making a turn on some gravel, and ended up gashing my knee horribly on it, and on some broken glass thoughtfully left there by the yahoos who would come to the playground at night and drink beer and do whatever drugs they could get at that time and in that community.
A playground monitor escorted me to the nurse’s office while the other girls began berating the boys. I’m not sure it was their fault, though; I mean, they didn’t push me. No one was punished that I can remember, and the fallout from this was…wait for it…
The loose gravel and broken glass were removed. It was the '70s, so I doubt that the administration got security for weekend nights: security guards were not everywhere like they are now. But broken glass was never left lying around on the playground after that. I got hurt because there was frikken broken glass on a playground, not because I was playing War. But nowadays, you know they would just ban the game.
after school, every single child makes a rock & ice-free snowballs & waits … for the principal to exit the building & go to his car.
FIRE!!!
At which point the Principal would expel the entire school.
Hmm. Are there rules against that?
[tangent]I don’t know if anyone here has read The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger, but in that book, a group of middle-school students are brainstorming ways to protest the firing their favorite teacher. Among the proposals are “Clog up the toilets in the teachers’ lounge with copies of the Wall Street Journal (I think)” “Administer (by force, I wonder?) the SAT to the principal who did the firing and announce the results to the school board and PTA” and “Have every student light up a cigarette at a preassigned time so that the entire student body will be suspended at once”. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t try that on.[/tangent]