Welcome to Severance, Colorado. The town, north of Denver, gets about 100 centimeters of snowfall a year. For almost 100 years, city rules have said it is illegal to throw or shoot stones or missiles at people, animals, buildings, trees, property or vehicles. Snowballs were considered to be part of the town’s definition of “missiles.” Kyle Rietkerk works for the town of Severance. He said children cannot believe that it is illegal to have snowball fights in their hometown. He said town leaders have for years told the children, ‘You have the power, you can change the law.’ But no one had tried -- until now. Nine-year-old Dane Best lives in Severance with his parents and little brother. He has made it his mission to get the snowball-fight ban overturned. Dane says he believes the law is “outdated.” “I want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble,” he said.
Title: Boy Asks Town to Lift Snowball Fight Ban
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3007/84391144-b17b-4e2a-8cfd-ed92a63531f6_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Boy Asks Town to Lift Snowball Fight Ban' data-article-id='3552'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='3104'>Welcome to Severance, Colorado.</span> <span data-start-time='3104' data-end-time='11063'>The town, north of Denver, gets about 100 centimeters of snowfall a year.</span> <span data-start-time='11063' data-end-time='28625'>For almost 100 years, city rules have said it is illegal to throw or shoot stones or missiles at people, animals, buildings, trees, property or vehicles.</span> <span data-start-time='28625' data-end-time='35813'>Snowballs were considered to be part of the town’s definition of “missiles.”</span> <span data-start-time='35813' data-end-time='40833'>Kyle Rietkerk works for the town of Severance.</span> <span data-start-time='40833' data-end-time='49417'>He said children cannot believe that it is illegal to have snowball fights in their hometown.</span> <span data-start-time='49417' data-end-time='59250'>He said town leaders have for years told the children, ‘You have the power, you can change the law.’</span> <span data-start-time='59250' data-end-time='63938'>But no one had tried -- until now.</span> <span data-start-time='63938' data-end-time='71604'>Nine-year-old Dane Best lives in Severance with his parents and little brother.</span> <span data-start-time='71604' data-end-time='78229'>He has made it his mission to get the snowball-fight ban overturned.</span> <span data-start-time='78229' data-end-time='84063'>Dane says he believes the law is “outdated.”</span> <span data-start-time='84063' data-end-time='90667'>“I want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble,” he said.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3007/A9A07EC7-CAC8-447D-9283-B1B5D837262D_cx4_cy2_cw94_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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