This Week in Bans: Florida City Outlaws Scary Ex-Employee

Welcome back to our weekly look at what's been outlawed in cities across the world (last week's edition here):

• City commissioners in Ocoee, Florida, have banned former city employee Nancy Cox from holding public office for a year. Cox was fired from her post in the finance department in November after a coworker allegedly overheard her muttering, "I need to get out of here before I kill everyone in this office — with a gun." Cox then applied for appointment to six city-advisory committees, alarming elected officials, who scrambled to vote unanimously for the unusual ban. Commissioner Rusty Johnson explained that Cox should use her one-year exile as a "cooling-off period."

• Residents of Yuma, Arizona, are toying with the idea of banning roosters. However, allegiances to the wattled fowl remain split. "I have a very nice yard, they're constantly in my yard tearing up my flowers just causing problems going to the bathroom on the front porch and it's a mess," one annoyed resident told KSWT News. The station then went to another person who found the noise of crowing fowl "comforting." "Sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the day sometimes in the evening, they crow on and off all the time," explained Maureen Merrell. "But it's not distracting, you're in your house."

• A U.K. town has finally decided it won't take any more crap from teenager Kean Lamb. A magistrate in Copthorne recently slapped an order on the 17-year-old yob that forbids him from "throwing, or encouraging others to throw, any object at property or other people," according to the Sun. The ban theoretically prevents Lamb and his buddies from engaging in their favorite pastime: pelting hapless villagers with snowballs. Apparently, they did it often enough that people dreaded seeing snow in the forecast. Said one anonymous victim, perhaps one of the 11 "terrified locals" who testified against Lamb: "When it was snowing you just knew the moment you stepped outside you would be targeted if they were around and they also used to throw snowballs at our windows and doors all the time."