What the heck? Why is this ILLEGAL in Provo, Utah?

Provo is a place with a lot of frozen yogurt, axe throwing companies, and AJ Dybansta jerseys. 

I haven't spent a lot of time in Provo, but I love BYU's campus and I once parked at a Pizza Hut during a BYU football game and when we got back to the car had been impounded. I was a college kid without a lot of sense.

I know the Provo Bakery is pretty famous too.

I also know that they have one heckuva home field advantage in football and home court advantage in basketball. Great fans!

But one thing I didn't know about Provo is that it's illegal to throw snowballs.

According to ABC4:

"Provo City code § 9.14.100 states that if you plan to throw a snowball in Provo, then beware. It states anyone throwing “any stone, stick, snowball within the city limits” could get a $50 fine and a misdemeanor. So, if you plan to have a snowball fight, take it outside of Provo."

Now this is obviously a crazy law to have on the books.

Any law that is broken probably 1,000 times a day during the winter by BYU students, school kids, mailmen, probably police officers, street vendors, senior citizens etc...is a law that's not really a law.

At a certain point you've gotta say having a law like this on our books takes some of our credibility away. People are gonna start to wonder about the rest of our laws and start ignoring them as well. I'd love to see the city council meeting where a bunch of moms decided to outlaw this.

What are your thoughts?