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Handout file photo dated 14/01/21 of people taking part in a large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Hyde Park, Leeds. Photo credit: @42adam42/TikTok TWO men involved in organising a mass snowball fight have each been given £10,000 fines for a “blatant breach” of lockdown rules. The snowball fight, which was filmed and widely shared on social media, provoked widespread condemnation as England endured freezing temperatures and strict lockdown rules, with many blaming students for the event. The unnamed 20-year-old and 23-year-old were tracked down after hundreds of people gathered for more than two hours on Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, on January 14, creating “a significant and completely unnecessary risk of increasing the spread of the virus”.
Mass snowball fight organisers fined £10,000 for blatant breach of lockdown rules
Hundreds of people attended the gathering earlier this month
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Two men fined £10,000 each for organising snowball fight
West Yorkshire Police said the unnamed 20-year-old and 23-year-old were tracked down after hundreds gathered on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds
28 January 2021 • 4:08pm
Two men involved in organising a mass snowball fight have each been given £10,000 fines for a blatant breach of lockdown rules.
West Yorkshire Police said the unnamed 20-year-old and 23-year-old were tracked down after hundreds of people gathered for more than two hours on Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, on January 14, creating a significant and completely unnecessary risk of increasing the spread of the virus .
The snowball fight was filmed and widely shared on social media, provoking widespread condemnation as England endured freezing temperatures and strict lockdown rules, with many blaming students for the event.