'˜Throwing snowballs at passing cars is just stupid and dangerous'
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With snow lying in many areas, local police took to Facebook to warn that throwing snowballs at cars could result in a serious road traffic collision.
“We are getting a number of reports about young people throwing snowballs at cars - I know chucking snowballs at your mates can be good craic (there may have been a few fired in the station yard today!) however throwing them at passing cars is just stupid and dangerous,” a post on the PSNI Lisburn page said.
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Hide Ad“Driving conditions are bad enough without drivers being distracted by having a snowball land on the windscreen. #SnowJoke,” it added.
Conditions are treacherous on many local roads, while some minor routes are completely blocked. Read more here.