The firefighter hits back in snowball fight (Picture: YouTube / tbowe05 )

Throwing a snowball at a firefighter is never a good idea as one teenager found out when his practical joke dramatically backfired.

Keen to impress his mates, the boy decided to target an emergency service worker aboard a boat in Leeds during Britain’s latest cold snap.

Standing on a bridge, the unidentified prankster lets fly with a snowball that hits the unsuspecting firefighter on his head.

Calmly picking up his hose, the firefighter hits back by directing a powerful burst of water at the cheeky youngsters who end up drenched.


The amateur footage, which shows watching members of the public in hysterics, has racked up over 50,000 hits on YouTube.



‘It’s all fun and games till you get blasted by a fireman,’ explained one amused user.

‘That fireman was cracking up the whole time,’ said another.

Last week, workers across the country found a novel way to travel to work in the snow – using their skis.

Meanwhile the cold weather doesn’t appear to have upset these two Siberian tigers, who were spotted enjoying a game of football amid heavy snowfall.