The governments of the world have gone mad.  We are facing a global revolution.  

@Andy, Your representation of freeing basic instincts makes me worry deeply. If you think that it comes down to killing a mother her children ... I think you should go and see a neurologist.
I'm from Belgium and it's sad. Europe is a experiment that started the wrong way,.... Open the borders while the wages are unequal. Of course for big companies this wasn't a problem, but for the people slowly it became. Czech is full of people from Russia/Czech working for western european companies there. Western europe is full of  people from Poland and other eastern european countries. Can't blame those people but now some politicians do. Everything is getting grimmy, and toleration goes down the drain... 
Of course those snowballs can't be linked directly to the european experiment, but the fact that extreme right parties are making a comeback, and resulting in these stupid laws is a link for me.... 
Just a clear sign of the rise of fascism... 

Sadly enough, this article is telling the truth. Last years the most crazy "regulations" became "law". Last november some school boys got in problems in my city, because they were.... eating a sandwich on the street. Anyhow, I still hope Belgium will become a better country, but nowadays I'm ashamed of my country.

Euh Lommel is even worse. It is there forbidden to make any noise. It is realy the police-law, make some noise that someone random don't like and you should commit a crime. Throwing snow make some noise... Offcource this is not a crime when the mayor is agree but it is only for childeren and other minor humans.
Throwing snowbals are also forbidden in even 2 articles, one for goods and one for humans. Snow is not explicit defined but it could be anything that someone don't like, and some people don't like snow and childeren.
Strange but real, the assistent of a major don't even know the law of his own vilage. A law where judges or other judical rules don't exists. Only the major (and friends) rules, everyone should obey like the law of Lommel said... A few years ago that calls a dictatorship now it is a common democratic practice.

kippetje wrote in #12
I live in Belgium and work with the mayor of a Flemish city and trust me when i say that this article is based on a recently spoken "OPINION" of a minister of the minority party. It is not the law and it is certainly not illegal to have snowball fights. RT should be ashamed of their selves for misleading readers to believe that any of this is true. I work with the mayor of Lommel "Peter Vanveldhoven" on a daily basis and promise you that this whole article is a lie. Especially since all the snow has started melting a week ago to where now there are only a few areas in the whole country where there is even is snow.  You'r e the one lying, kippetje. Some cities did ban snowballfights AND have policemen sanctioning people who have them. Recent examples: Antwerp and Lokeren. It is true that not every city banned them and I don't know about Lommel. But saying that this whole article is a lie, is shameful. And 'the snow started melting a week ago'? There must be a microclimate in Lommel, because for the passed week the temperature in Flanders didn't go above 0°C, except for a brief period yesterday. Ofcourse the roads are snowfree thanks to the salt, but squares, parcs, ... are not. In Brussels and Antwerp there's still enough snow to have snowballfights. So maybe you should just come outside more often and join some people in a nice snowballfight.

I live in Belgium and work with the mayor of a Flemish city and trust me when i say that this article is based on a recently spoken "OPINION" of a minister of the minority party. It is not the law and it is certainly not illegal to have snowball fights. RT should be ashamed of their selves for misleading readers to believe that any of this is true. I work with the mayor of Lommel "Peter Vanveldhoven" on a daily basis and promise you that this whole article is a lie. Especially since all the snow has started melting a week ago to where now there are only a few areas in the whole country where there is even is snow.

Europe is just pathetic these days, and probably not worth visiting for the next 50 years.

This Belgian law against snowball fights reminds me of the laws that seem to be popping up around the U.S. against writing on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk. In Los Angeles, demonstrators were confronted with riot police in formation after writing with sidewalk chalk.  Last month, in Austin, Texas - the police arrested Santa Claus! He was asking the children what they wished for and then he and the children would write it with the chalk. Some parents started filming as children said they wished for "Peace" and for "Music".  They kept filming when the police showed up. The parents voices can be heard on the video. They were clearly astounded by what they were seeing.
Its as though anything that might bring simple joy (and is free or cheap - like the price of chalk) is viewed as "anti-social" behavior...?

This is an example of a stupid law that will hopefully not be enforced. Sure, snowballs can be packed so tight that they are almost like a rock, but (hopefully) almost no children are mean-spirited enough to make their snowball so hard that it can hurt someone.
The problem with the world (and the USA is a prime example) is that they want to regulate away any danger and they don't believe in the concept of personal responsibility any more. They also have the blood-sucking lawyers out there to sue anybody because of any accident. When I was a kid, my elementary school had big fun structures (toys) to climb up and run around. We had a blast. But the school took the toys down because of liability concerns and possibly regulations. Some schools don't even let children run.
In brief, I totally agree with the comments made by bark obomber. I also believe strongly in civil disobedience. Some kid will organize a snowball fight in Belgium on Facebook and dare the police to arrest them for their civil disobedience.

@ Andy the MSNBC drone You are obviously a repressed homotard and libtard who believes in regulating everything and takes everything literally. You should not be allowed to live outside of the cesspool you were born in. You remind us of Tomasz.

@what's next - you may think of yourself as an animal, but I have rather a higher opinion and expectation of myself. Free the basic instincts? And what you those be?Guard dogs have the instinct to kill any perceived thre at (real or not), should I take that approach? When a male lion joins a new pride he kills all the cubs so he can spread his own genes - are you saying if I hook up with a single mother I should be able to kill her children and encourage her to breed with me?
You are a very stupid person and should not be allowed to have opinions.

Another example of infantile liberalism and its pathological desire to suppress all forms of European familial and group expression -- when you destroy a people’s traditions you destroy a people -- RESISTTHE INTERNATI ONALISTS!

Will they next ban public nudity and public sex? The authorities in Europe are out of control. It's not natural all these crazy laws; It's turning humans extremely neurotic and insane. People need to be allowed to be what they are, ANIMALS. Free the basic instincts before the entire human race goes mental.