A Kansas mayor has said he will repeal a "dumb" city regulation banning the throwing of snowballs - shortly after inadvertently breaking it himself.
Bill Bunten, mayor of Kansas' capital, Topeka, found out about the rule after a high school student wrote to him.
He replied confessing he had recently hurled a snowball himself, and said he would ask for the law to be revised.
Under the code, anyone caught throwing a snowball in public can be fined up to $499 (