Cops versus lobbers: Police force warn throwing snowballs could lead to arrest
A POLICE force that has received 700 complaints about snowball throwing since 2012 has warned winter revellers they face arrest for causing injury.
Throwing snowballs could lead to arrests, police say
Officers in Staffordshire have yet to make arrests although the warning following reports of five incidents of vehicles being pelted in two hours.
But not all locals think the snowball alert is justified. Tom Vaughan, 40, said: “Just throw one back, surely?”