KOKOMO, Ind. -- Deaf and blind, it wasn't. But an Indiana community felt its 60-year-old ban on pinball was dumb. Surrounded by city officials at a local record shop Tuesday, Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight signed an ordinance resting on a pinball machine, lifting the city's ban on the game. He couldn't resist making a reference to The Who's 1969 hit, "Pinball Wizard." The mayor invited the police chief, Rob Baker, to play the first legal game of pinball in the city since 1955.
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