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Mar 07 2003, 04:11 PM
A 3 legged dog named C-bo, catch a squirrel at Fritz in Texas. NEXT! /clipart/happy.gif "meister"

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 04:46 PM
Mark Bruce

nix
Mar 07 2003, 04:46 PM
This is real...
A half-burned shoe that remained from a young man who decided to take his own life by pouring a gallon of gas on himself and then lighting a match. In the middle of #2 fairway at Mackenzie Park...he was not a disc golfer...
/clipart/sad.gif

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 04:48 PM
Mark Susi

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 04:49 PM
Flying squirrels.

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 04:49 PM
A cow ace.

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 04:50 PM
One discgolfer standing over another while beating him with an X-Clone.

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 05:00 PM
Not strange, but very unusual. Two middle aged, African-American women, carrying golf bags and playing disc golf in Greensboro NC.

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 05:00 PM
I can't stop.

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 05:01 PM
Rusty Von Wilhelm in a red thong, reciting poetry.

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 05:06 PM
Kevin Stewart

rhett
Mar 07 2003, 05:14 PM
A rotund "cross country mom" jumping in front of a basket and knocking a putt out of the air and to the ground during an Amateur Supertour.

<FONT SIZE="-2">okay, I didn't see it. I was playing on another part of the course when it happened.</FONT>

Mar 07 2003, 05:26 PM
Why did she do it?

Mar 07 2003, 05:33 PM
At Waller park......between rounds of the tourney in Santa Maria, a large, mature pine tree (100ft ) fell over....about 50 yards from tourney central.

HUGE THUMP!!!

Ran over the grassy knoll to see if any legs were sticking out of the underside....nobody hurt. But, there were two old ladies sitting at a picnic table at the very tip of the fallen tree....covering their food, waiting for the dust to settle so they could continue eating.

Chris Hysell
Mar 07 2003, 05:35 PM
I saw a pine tree fall during the final 18 of a supertour and almost fell on Mark Susi in the gallery.

jeffash
Mar 07 2003, 05:45 PM
A disc golfer talking on a cell phone.


Not so strange, you say?


How about during a tournament?


How about during play in a tournament?


How about during play in a World Championship?


How about during play in a World Championship and he holds the phone away from his mouth for a second, and yells across the fairway for you to go ahead and throw?


Strange, but he had a fairly good excuse./clipart/happy.gif


Hope I don't sound like a whiney Am./clipart/wink.gif

Mar 07 2003, 05:46 PM
The actual manifestation of the MOJO...

Mar 07 2003, 06:12 PM
I saw a guy (that had not been playing long so I dont know his name) fall down the side of a cliff on hole #2 at Riverview Park.When I asked him if he was alright he said "I think I dislocated my kneecap".When I went down to check on him his kneecap had slipped to the underside of his knee,man it was trippy.We called the police they had to hoist him up the hill in a basket.But what was the funnist thing was when this lady cop was trying to get to him I told her to go down this little trail we use to get our disc but she didnt and of course she busted her a$$comes tumbling down this hill and stopes at my feet.I started laughing at her she looked up at me I told her thats what you get for being hardheaded, she had red clay all over her uniform ,face etc...Boy if looks could kill I would have died right then.........

Mar 07 2003, 06:28 PM
pigs like mud

Mar 07 2003, 06:41 PM
A 15' putt of mine that went in the basket.

Mar 07 2003, 06:49 PM
We were playing late one night in Arlington. As we were teeing from hole 17, there was a guy yelling and hitting a girl in the pavillion. We went running full speed towards the pavillion (I was having to yell at my kids to quit following us - they were running full speed too), then jumped into the pavillion ready to beat the dude into submission, when the girl jumped up and started frantically telling us they were practicing for a play.

It was true...and it was strange.

mule1
Mar 07 2003, 07:25 PM
Now I have this mental image of Chris Hysell laying on top of Mark Susi. That is not a good thing, but it would be a strange thing.

Mar 07 2003, 08:01 PM
TEEING OFF ON #9 AT LAKE PARK LAST YEAR AND HAVING A VERY FINE YOUNG FEMALE WALKING UP FROM THE LAKE (IN HER BIKINI) AND TURNING TO ME AND FLASHING A VERY FINE PAIR OF STORE BOUGHTS RIGHT IN MY FACE FROM ABOUT 5 OR 6 FEET!

Mar 07 2003, 08:36 PM
At Fritz again: A guy started rocking back and forth on this guywire to an electric pole. It starts shaking the wires so violently, that a transformer blows up right in the park. It was a Shocking sight. And a woodpecker would hammer at the light fixtures in the park. Loud! Oh yeah. Same course, we saw some big bottle rockets go over, then sirens and all that, The hobby shop across the street burned down. "I know NOTHING" /clipart/happy.gif

Mar 07 2003, 08:38 PM
John that one does deserve all CAPITAL LETTERS! LUCKY YOU!

tdwriter
Mar 07 2003, 10:09 PM
During a casual round several years ago, we came upon a young couple on the 13th tee off at our local course in Florence, Ala., about to have sex. We weren't paying attention and neither were they. All of a sudden we spot them they spot us and they hurridly put their clothes on and walked off, taking a circuitous route away from us. They were slightly embarrassed. We weren't.

There were also a lot of bums that would hang around at Brahan Springs in Huntsville, Ala. There used to be these unnatural mounds of pine straw on some holes, "bumbeds" they called them.

There was also a bum hole at George Ward Park in Birmingham. Beyond the hole #5 basket, I think.
RwC

spartan
Mar 08 2003, 12:30 AM
Saw a basket that was lined with tin foil and burnt charcoal. Hole #12 at Pease Park.

pnkgtr
Mar 08 2003, 01:40 AM
If you're familiar with the Laci Peterson case, you've probably seen the searches and candlelight vigils on TV. Those are taking place on hole #8 at my local course. It's not easy to yell fore loud enough for 1200 people to here you. Although I have to admit that Mark Bruce is pretty strange too.

specialk
Mar 08 2003, 01:45 AM
Homeless under the bridge at Pease about 10' off the tee (when the course was under repair about 4 years ago). Rodney had to shorten his run-up so he wouldn't step on them.

Mar 08 2003, 09:36 AM
A man offered his wife to me for favors. Nacogdoches , Pecan

I declined.

Mar 08 2003, 12:23 PM
Kilborne, hole 16. My friend Jon Jamison and his wife Amy were playing a casual evening round. They saw a girl standing up in the middle of the fairway. She came running up to them and asked if they had a cell phone. Her boyfriend (22 years old I think), was laying in the fairway not breathing. Jon ran to show the Ambulance how to get to the spot while Amy and the girl tried to get him breathing. It was too late, the young man died. Jon still calls hole 16 "Dead Man's Hole".

Mar 08 2003, 12:55 PM
Some of the strangest things that has happened here at our local course in Vaasa, Finland...

A few years ago a red BMW rolled down from a nearby parking lot in the middle of our hole 3 fairway during our weekly games. The car war still there when we left home. Luckily it was so near the tee-off that it was easy to throw over the car...

Usually on the spring young Mooses/Elks wander in the city looking for food and then it�s very possible to see one during morning rounds at the course.

Mar 08 2003, 07:28 PM
An International Flair, Thanks Jukka. Thats what I call a B.M.W. ROLLER! I started this thread yesterday, But i think its been done before. I thank all for their entries. Another sad one from Fritz park,Irving Texas. The creek rises very quickly at this park. Even if it is not raining nearby. 2 young men were swept away just upstream at Senter Park. One was saved the other was found at Fritz the next morning.on hole 6 I think,He was hung up in the brush, just by his collar. A tragic day. I think that had something to do with the parks renovation. Fritz Rocks! I'd rather see moose and elk! /clipart/happy.gif

Mar 08 2003, 07:29 PM
PARK PETE? /clipart/happy.gif

drdisc
Mar 08 2003, 11:36 PM
I was playing with the World Distance Champ, John Kirkland at the original campus course in Florence Al. His bad tee shot was going really fast when it hit a transformer on a telephone pole. Sparks flew out and the charred Frisbee fell straight down. He did not win that day.

Mar 09 2003, 02:49 AM
A girl from Baylor University in Waco,TX was trying to do a photo shoot for playboy's big 12 during a tournament we had. They left and didn't do the shoot there because there were too many people passing by, she was already gonna show the world her goodies....but we were still denied a sneek peek....typical.

Mar 09 2003, 02:57 AM
oh yeah.....and randy wimm/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif.

Mar 09 2003, 03:02 AM
Steve, you're right Park Pete's hair was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen on a course.

For those of you that don't know, imagine what your hair would look like if you wore a stove pipe hat for several years without ever taking it off.

Mar 09 2003, 03:24 AM
chim chimney

Mar 09 2003, 10:27 AM
I can picture that girl from Baylor now, looking coyly at the camera, slowly lifting up her shirt in a field of bluebells (http://www.geocities.com/martyrman1/dgphotopage.html)...

Mar 09 2003, 10:38 AM
Damm, I just fell outta my chair laughing. /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

(Or was it horror and revulsion? That's one of the reasons I don't even visit that part of my own site anymore. /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif )

jeffash
Mar 09 2003, 10:46 AM
Why not? (http://www.geocities.com/martyrman1/dgphotopage3.html)/clipart/proud.gif

Mar 09 2003, 10:57 AM
Hi Jeff. That page is fine, as long as you never go topless.

(Although, knowing you sleep with your pink Comets is kinda creepy. /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif )

MTL21676
Mar 09 2003, 07:44 PM
I was playing in a little local tournament in New Bern NC....hole 7 is a down hill and the basket is over a ridge and cannot be seen from the tee box. Me and another guy throw really good drives, only to see them flying back torwards us....someone was at the bottom of the hill and didnt understand what we were doing....we nicely explained what we were doing and if he saw anymore discs, just leave them alone...


heres the strange part...

later in that round on hole 12 the people from earlier are watching us throw....i threw a CE Spider....midway in flight i hollar "stay spider....cmon"...there dog takes off after the disc..apperntly the dog heard the word spider and thought it was the actual animal..

needless to say, i have not returned to New bern since..

nudediscgolfer
Mar 09 2003, 09:32 PM
Mark Susi, Straddle Putting NUDE!

Mar 09 2003, 11:59 PM
hey ching...i'll never look at another field of bluebonnets without that horrific image popping up in my head...thanks for nuthin!/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif except a really good laugh.

Mar 10 2003, 09:58 AM
a casual round at oakwood park MN
hole #17 dusk
my drive lands 15 ft from a 10 point buck. he goes nowhere. i cautiously approach and he does not move. 2 yearlings flags up bound into the nearby woods, still he stands. i place my minni pick up my disc, and throw my second shot. he never flinched just munched on some grass. just kind of looked at us to say "o.k. you can play through"

Mar 10 2003, 11:36 AM
Pease Park in Austin,Tx. Approaching the 18th tee, I saw two mounties, cops on horses, riding in the field to the right. They start to gallop and.......? Splat! One of the cops falls off his horse to the ground and lays there for a few minutes while his horse runs off. The other officer has to chase down his horse! Finally, the officer gets up and is ok. That was wild to see during a round!

Mar 10 2003, 12:52 PM
I was playing River Bends course a few months ago, and low and behold, there was a Boy Scount convention on our course. Of course they were all very disrespectful to us, even though they were on our course. They could not share the space. They were teaching these young kids the complete opposite of what the boy scouts stood for, which is "To respect others and to be courteous". I did notify the local boy scout officals, but nothing ever really happened with it.

Mar 10 2003, 01:01 PM
at woodway park in waco, i was driving and a split second after i throw a flock of birds takes off from the trees on my left, i hit prob'ly 7 or 8 all dead now, but still parked the hole. disc just kept skipping off of them. i felt bad but got the birdie. (more ways than one i guess!) /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

Mar 10 2003, 01:12 PM
I was playing a casual round with a few other guys at Oak Grove (Pasadena) when this 17-or-so-year-old girl comes by on her horse and moseys right down the fairway.

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Play stopped dead, natch, but all hearts were beating double-time.

(Don't think she didn't know what she was doing, either!)

Chris Hysell
Mar 10 2003, 02:19 PM
Why is an attractive girl on a horse strange?

pterodactyl
Mar 10 2003, 10:54 PM
Mohawk/black-eye Dude?

playtowin
Mar 11 2003, 12:03 AM
Standing at hole 10 two weeks ago at Z boaz, our card was watching Clayton B. and Pat C. throw down the hill on hole 9. One disc stuck in the ground upright (tombstoned). The next disc landed about ten feet behind it, and slowly rolled up, wobbled a bit, then rested on the tombstone, both standing upright!

playtowin
Mar 11 2003, 12:04 AM
Oh, and one time I hit a putt from beyond 10 feet!

thcplz
Mar 11 2003, 12:18 AM
finishing out at searight, hole 17 on the cedar tree by the box. perched on a twig of a limb was a big "hog-leg"./msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif
that made up for the 4 over i shot i guess.

thanx disc gods/msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif/msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif/msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif

Mar 11 2003, 01:36 AM
Nothing original to add. But, since there's a bird theme goin', here are 2 posts from an old thread that dealt with "strange things" seen on the course and they really "fit the bill".....

By W. Kyle Power on Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2001 - 12:45 pm:

One day when I was playing some casual golf with some friends, I heard this squawk, squawk, squawk, and felt something tapping me on the head as I was reaching down for my disc. I picked up my driver (Innova Banchee) and without looking I swung the disc at whatever was attacking me. Smack, I nailed it. I turned around and stretched out on the ground is a bright green parrot, knocked out cold. After everyone got through laughing their asses off we picked up the bird and gave it to some guy that came out of his apartment to see what all the commotion was about.

The guy came out later to tell us that once the bird woke up it was fine and flying around his appartment.

** By Timmy Gill on Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 04:26 pm:

I've told this one before years ago but it's always good. Walked up to hole #8 at Lone Lake. Group of 8-10 people "hanging out" on the picnic table. I ask to play thru. "Of course" they say. I grab a Magnet, rip it high and right, a couple ducks streak by, my disc hits one of the ducks, redirects the disc towards the basket and SPLASH! I aced off a DUCK!!!!! 8-10 witnesses saw this unbelivable chain of events! The duck started on a nose dive then regained his flight shortly after I hit it. Very STRANGE!

Mar 11 2003, 09:14 AM
Prior to the Mardi Gras Madness in Nawlins, Dr Goby, Mrs Goby and I went to the Rivendell course for some pre event preperation for that tough arse course and while playing a casual round a bald eagle flew directly overhead.

The first day of the event, as we were driving towards teh Rivendell course on I-10 (over that HUGE wetlands area just west of Nawlins) we saw a nesting pair of bald eagles perched on a huge old dead oak on the shoreline-- with a yearling eagle circling overhead.

very kewl.

Mar 11 2003, 10:40 AM
Is it strange to wait for a hooker to finish her "job" before teeing because her "client" is leening on the basket. Or how about dead people in the fairway?

Mar 11 2003, 10:43 AM
How about an unmanned car flying down the road and slamming into the tree right next to your final hole. We still played with the cops and tow truck driver wondering why we were chucking discs at them.

Mar 11 2003, 11:20 AM
At Waller Park, walking from hole #21 to #22, looked over to see a 6 foot guy in a giant pot leaf costume leaning on the basket for hole #17. He was being videotaped by a young girl. Too weird. I burst into laughter and didn't stop laughing for 2 more holes.

Mar 11 2003, 11:23 AM
One sunday, played up to a family hiding Easter eggs in the basket. Funny thing was that Easter was the following Sunday. D'oh!

Mar 11 2003, 01:16 PM
While getting ready to tee off on Saturday for the second round of the Memorial I was meeting my playing partners. One of them was Jeff Pope from Santa Fe, New Mexico. I asked him where he grew up because I was from Kansas, (live in AZ now) and knew a Jeff Pope back then. It turned out that this Jeff Pope was the same guy that I knew from Junior High back in Overland Park, KS. We were in the same grade even, what a trip!

quickdisc
Mar 11 2003, 02:06 PM
Well....I'm from the West Coast and was visiting
Some friends of mine in Michigan. We played this
Course called Addison Oaks. It was getting dark.
We were on the Back nine, Hole 15 I think. I Threw
through this group of FireFlys. Never seen these
Before. As my Disc went through this group of FireFlys, they lit up and parted ,leaving a Clearly visable tunnel where my Disc went through!
Really Cool !!! It was about 6 feet of the ground.
Two holes later, 4 deer ran in front of us doing
about 25 miles an hour !!! WOW !!! Don't see that
in San Diego !!! Disc Golf and Nature !!!

Chris Hysell
Mar 11 2003, 02:08 PM
Lance, does Jeff know that you think he is the strangest thing you have seen at a disc golf course?

Mar 11 2003, 03:10 PM
I've seen stranger things, but here's a Climo story... Once we were playing #6 at Cliff Stephens when a 6 foot yellow rat snake zips in front of Kenney as he's putting. Kenney grabs the end of it as it's going into a hole at the base of an oak tree, pulls the snake out and holds it over the basket. The snake wrapped itself all around the basket and chains and had a confused look like " I'll never mess with THAT guy again when he's putting!"

Mar 11 2003, 03:51 PM
Probably not and don't tell him!! /msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif You've seen stranger???

Chris Hysell
Mar 11 2003, 04:15 PM
Sure have. Go back to the beginning. I said Mark Bruce, Mark Susi and Kevin Stewart. Nobody has topped them yet.

Mar 11 2003, 06:34 PM
> Nobody has topped them yet.

Chris Hysell. /clipart/proud.gif

Chris Hysell throwing backhand. /clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif

Chris Hysell throwing backhand from the teebox. /clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif

Chris Hysell throwing backhand from the teebox and NOT going OB. /clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif

Shall I go on? /clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif/clipart/proud.gif

Mar 11 2003, 11:11 PM
I was playing a casual round at my home course, Hudson Mills last summer, on hole 18. My drive jacked a tree hard and shot left, so I was looking around in some deep stuff, when all of a sudden I feel something squishy under my foot, and I look down, and it's a blue snake. Since we have blue racers in the park, I didn't stick around much. As soon as i took off, though, I almost stepped on my disc. Now I'm always afraid to go back there.

Mar 11 2003, 11:42 PM
Racer, (coluber constrictor) not a true constrictor. and11 subspecies. 34-77 inches. Diurnal. If grabbed it will bite repeatedly and thrash around Violently. But I like to pick them up and hug them. Then, on to the next hole. /clipart/happy.gif"meister"

dsglfnpool
Mar 12 2003, 08:25 AM
To add to Felix's post...

Chris Hysell standing on a tee box laughing like a mad man because he had just thrown a drive that hit the first tree and bounced straight back into his hand. (true story)

Chris Hysell
Mar 12 2003, 09:22 AM
That was a true story. I remember LL seeing it but I couldn't remember who else was there.

Felix, I throw the tee shot that best fits the hole. If it's a wide open course, I will throw mainly backhand. It's an urban myth that I only throw forehand.

Mar 12 2003, 01:46 PM
> It's an urban myth that I only throw forehand.

Maybe so, but it still a strange sight! /clipart/wink.gif

Mar 12 2003, 01:58 PM
Picked up my disc on hole 2 at Druid Hill and found a zipper pouch containing a full baggie and a glass??? There were 3 witnesses to this odd event and they all were <FONT COLOR="119911">IRIE</FONT> come hole 6!

Mar 12 2003, 02:57 PM
I was putting on hole 13 at Jefferson Barracks in St Louis while 2 squirrels were playing in the tree over the basket when 1 fell and broke his neck on top of the basket. Poor little bugger.

Mar 12 2003, 04:17 PM
We were in a tournament and we walked up on a family grillin chicken in the basket. They had the chickens hanging from the chains. We explained what the basket was used for, they thought it was a new kind of grill. Needless to say it slowed things down just a little until we could clean it out.

Mar 12 2003, 05:10 PM
CLUE!

Mar 12 2003, 05:15 PM
Not that strange but kind of funny. A couple of years back at a tournament in Miami one of the guys in the four top on the hole in front of us drove.

It was a good drive and as it was flying the park ranger came driving across the fairway in his pickup. Wouldn't you know it, the disc landed in the back of his truck and he just kept on driving. It was pretty funny watching the guy whose drive it was yelling and chasing down the ranger, who was oblivious to the whole thing, in the killer Miami heat. It also made for an interesting ruling.

zooc
Mar 12 2003, 07:23 PM
was playing a mini with nina and about 20 seconds after his SHANK hit up in a tree, a squirrel fell out, poor basta*&amp;%%#$ broke his back. I have also heard of certain ethnic families using a basket to cook hotdog and bar-b-q

Mar 12 2003, 08:54 PM
With the exception of last week's episode of ESpn2's Destination Outdoors... and the camera's at the Brent Hambrick Memorial held in Columbus, OH...
A TV camera...
Could it be that the demise of DiscTV went down w/ the digital tier. Disc Golfer's get to golf for free why are we gonna pay fifty bucks a month or more to watch it on pay TV. Advertiser's wanted!!

jmterlap
Mar 12 2003, 11:18 PM
Where are all the Sandy Point Faithful? Need some help with the name, but one of the awesome teenagers from Minnesota was doing a jump putt on one of the steep slopes at Sandy Point. He lost his balance, fell and poked a stick thru his shoulder I think.

Mar 13 2003, 12:48 AM
It was either James Smith or his brother.

I once saw an overweight, inebriated American indian in that old rundown shack on the south side of Water Works in KC. She was having a great time calling to the golfers. Or at least to us. "Hey, boys, how ya doin'?" Yikes.

Mar 13 2003, 02:13 AM
John, Brad.
We were on the same team, the Chainsmokers. We were led by the 'Majestic' Captain Matt Koerner and it was an odd day.

Won't get too deep into the details, but, John what you said is true. Putting on a steep hill, a fall, a meeting with a pine branch straight through the armpit(from the front) and out the upper portion of shoulder(in the back). Up close and personal made it's impression. But....

Jack Smith from Minnesota, 16 at the time I believe, came back less than two months later to take second in the 99' Am Worlds! (Tim Schreder, another Minnesotan took 1st). Jack then went on to Pro Worlds in Rochester, NY and took 27th.

I would definately have to say that was the strangest thing I've SEEN at a DG course.

DMonkey

Mar 13 2003, 02:31 AM
By discgolfdude on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 01:10 pm:

CLUE!

I can't even imagine the mess you made coming up with that one. I can just see you pulling up to your computer, seeing this thread, and thinking wow could I come up with something funny here. Let's see....Brohawk....errrr....naked japanese hot tubbers hitting on you and your uncle.....Keith Johnson.....no, I know I can come up with something funny. Let me think, scribble scribble. I'll brainstorm a few ideas. Hmmm...(5 hrs later)....oh I know...Clue! [*****], that is going to have people rolling on the floor.

Mar 13 2003, 09:24 AM
LMAO!!!! /msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif

Mar 13 2003, 09:33 AM
I rolled on the floor before but got cat hair in my -unmentionables-.

neonnoodle
Mar 13 2003, 03:34 PM
Ray Veltry

Mar 13 2003, 03:40 PM
Like I could come up with that in 5 hours...try 13 idiot!

solberg
Mar 13 2003, 05:04 PM
This actually happened and gets brought up now and then for a good laugh.

I was playing at a St Cloud MN Tournament and at the end of the morning round we were waiting on the Tee Pad for hole #18.

The Tee area has trees around it with plenty more trees nearby. Then, suddenly a squirrel came charging me from behind, ran up my leg and stopped on my shoulder, just like a parriot.

We looked at each other (the squirrel and I) then he jumped off my shoulder and ran up a tree!

That broke our 4 some into a wild laughter spat and the rest of the day I was able to say "the mosquitoes were not bad, but the dang squirrells!

bschweberger
Mar 13 2003, 08:31 PM
Chris Hysell's Head!!!

Mar 14 2003, 06:46 PM
One of our North Phoenix Am's was playing the Memorial, missed a putt and punched the ground. He ended up breaking his hand and DNF'ing. Come on man, if you're gonna punch the ground don't use your throwing hand, GOMER!

grambo
Mar 14 2003, 08:04 PM
Maybe not strange, but certainly worthy of mention at least for the male population
Searight park, Friday singles, rain storm just clearing off
A group of young people, not disc golfers, were hanging out drinking beer under the shelter
Looked like an office group
Well anyway, enough beer was had by all to successfully dare three young women to pull their tops up
Not many disc golfers paying attention, but I just happened to notice some commotion
So they did it, sort of
One showed her tummy, one showed her brassiere, and the third, with maybe more beer in her system, showed it all
Woohoo
Except I was blocked out by the crowd
The third, coincidentally, had several of the young men talking to her later

Mar 15 2003, 01:02 PM
years ago, i played a round at pease park in Austin. the group in front of me was a couple of bums. they were playing with car hubcaps. they were wearing gloves to keep the sharp edges from cutting their hands.

another one was out at Round Rock. some guy parked his car about a hundred feet in front of hole one's tee on the south course. Fondren threw his first drive directly into the door. BANG!!! he proceeded to get another driver out and put a second dent about a foot from the first. i don't know who was madder, the car owner or Scott.

i watched Rob Feather throw a bad hyzer that went in the window of a passing UPS truck. the driver didn't even slow down.

yomamafoo
Mar 15 2003, 03:16 PM
When I first started playing, my friends and I were out at Moffitt and my friend Greg tried to throw really hard and ended up throwing it straight up in the air and nailing a bird...

Mar 15 2003, 10:45 PM
Years ago in the early days of Disc Golf in Fort Dodge Iowa a disc was stuck up in the air wedged in a power line.

The disc had managed to squeeze between the power line and the aluminum support cable and could not be retrieved for several years.

The line ran over a large creek so getting to it was impossible.

Mar 15 2003, 11:19 PM
nothing is impossible but never slap a man in the face if he's chewing tobacco!

Mar 16 2003, 03:07 AM
...7-8 yrs ago me &amp; my boy dave were playin the old course at stephens city when on hole 18 he shanked a tree, the disc split in half and the left half landed in 17's basket! One time on hole 3 at seneca I chucked a BAD roller shot that ended up going thru a 1 inch gap in a cedar tree 25 ft from the tee and ended up parked under the basket! But the funniest thing was when our boy dan threw a bad drive on hole 11 at seneca and got so mad he kicked his bag and ALL of his discs rolled in the creek!!harhar (p.s.- he stopped playing after that)

Mar 16 2003, 08:32 PM
At the 1999 Crooked Creek Classic in SC, I threw a bad drive on #2 that hyzered OB over the road. The spot that I marked my lie was directly in front of a dead roadkill possum. He was dead, but those dead eyes were looking right at me. I wanted to give him a proper burial, but I think I would've been DQ'ed. That really messed with me for the rest of the day. I think I shot a sixty-something after shooting a couple down the first round. Every time I marked a lie I saw that possum...

Mar 16 2003, 08:51 PM
The road was his end..
His end was the road..
So they say...

memphisdiscgolf
Mar 17 2003, 01:26 PM
Was putting for birdie about 50' out at a Tournament in Wall Doxey, MS. I tend to throw these from this far, fairly high in the air to let them "drift" into the basket. Well not really in my line of site but in front of me, there was a tree that I didn't really take notice of. There was one little branch with twigs hanging down from it that I didn't even see or think about.

My putt hit one of these twigs about 10' off the ground...and stuck thru my disc hanging it there! So basically went from putting for birdie from 50' to OB with my disc ruined and 10' off the ground. Doh!

Brad

Mar 17 2003, 10:43 PM
8 or so years ago I used to work 2 miles from Round Rock. It was just after "National Doubles" and the south course was still up, as it was, I was putting on hole 3, I was lined up with the basket and the view towards #4's tee box...LO and behold, one white buttox. I took a double take, and yes, coppulation was abound, right on the tee box.
Needless to say, I skipped that hole, since he was so rapped up in holeing out/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif It was a nice day, to say the least...and I just couldn't bring myself to ask them if I could play thru./msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif They left shortly after.
One of the many reasons I joined the club/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

drdisc
Mar 18 2003, 01:10 AM
Mike Conger, 'Cap'n Snap" was the TD at the Bull Run Overall NAS event located in the famous Civil War Battlefield. It is a State Park.
On a practice round with Gregg Hosfield, Gregg threw a bad shot that came to rest in the park road. Since it was a dead end, we would just throw a few more before we walked down to pick it up. Out of nowhere comes a speeding State Trooper. When he sees the dead end he slams on his brakes, right on top of Greggs favorite driver and slides on top of it for about 20 feet.
No one could speak untill he had done his Bat Turn and took off in the other direction.
One of the few times I have seen Hosfield speechless.

dixonjowers
Mar 18 2003, 01:30 AM
I killed a squirrel with a roller during the MaceMan Tuesday event in early February. I thought it was alive because it jumped on to a tree but it apparently fell right off on the back side as witnessed by another group. I walked up on it and it was bleeding out of it's mouth already dead.

Mar 18 2003, 02:20 AM
on hole 4 at Cameron East(original hole 17) there's a water spicket next to a stump behind the bathroom, i was the last one to tee off,so i threw a roller. it had crush all over it...then it hit the spicket and turned on the water. it was wet but not o.b. and a one in a million shot.

Mar 18 2003, 10:45 AM
LOL.....good one George!!

Mar 18 2003, 01:04 PM
Back in the mid 1980s I was playing a round at North Karen Acres in Des Moines Iowa on hole #7 (may it rest in peace). It is a left hand up hill dog leg. The dog leg tree sits on top of the small hill; the fairway then slowly runs back downhill to the basket. If the dog leg where removed the shot would be strait and flat.

I was throwing a hard, clay colored Lighting. The shot was very high anhyzer and cleared the dog leg and swooped down towards the basket. As it came down it flattened and hit its air brakes when a gust of wind hit it and suspended it in mid-air. It seamed to hang for an eternity 10 feet above the basket.

By the time the disc was ready to come down it had lost a most of its rotation. Without the proper rotation the disc nosed strait down towards the ground. As it came down you could see the entire underside with my name written on it. It came to rest besides the basket and I got my deuce.

Mar 18 2003, 01:15 PM
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A guy named Joe Firestein used to play Disc Golf back in
the late 70s through the early 80s. To keep people from keeping his lost discs
he would label his discs in marker with the word �<FONT COLOR="FF0000"><FONT FACE="STOMP_Shlop"><FONT SIZE=" 2">KOTEX</FONT></FONT></FONT>�.
It worked, nobody wanted to throw a disc with Kotex written on it.
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Mar 18 2003, 01:19 PM
Sorry about the wierd HTML stuff in the previous post.







A guy named Joe Firestein used to play Disc Golf back in
the late 70s through the early 80s. To keep people from keeping his lost discs
he would label his discs in marker with the word �<FONT COLOR="FF0000"><FONT FACE="STOMP_Shlop"><FONT SIZE=" 2">KOTEX</FONT></FONT></FONT>�.
It worked, nobody wanted to throw a disc with Kotex written on it.

An unfortunate side effect of this is that Joe�s nickname
became Kotex.

Mar 18 2003, 02:13 PM
And the second? /msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif

Mar 18 2003, 03:07 PM
I've posted this some time ago, but I think it's worth repeating. In the early 90's the course in Missouri City, TX had 4x4 post targets. For a local mini-tourney we had setup temp. baskets. On hole 7 Jeff Lehmann throws a shot that hit the 4x4 target bounces off and lands in the temp. baskets. Two aces with only one throw!

Mar 18 2003, 04:20 PM
FAR OUT!!!!!

Never again in History to be repeated!!!!

md21954
Jul 03 2003, 01:10 PM
Saturday morning I yanked my drive over the monkey house fence on #3 at Druid Hill DGC in Baltimore, MD. Druid is adjacent to the Baltimore Zoo and the Zoo's veterinary facility is parallel to #3 and #4 and is OB marked by a barbed wire fence (we call it the monkey house). I went to the entrance of the fence near #5's tee which was fortunately unlocked and went in to retrieve my disc. When I got to my lie, I heard a growl, looked to my right and saw a HUGE tiger about 10 feet away. Fortunately it was in one of those cages that allows them in and out of the building at will so I was safe. I certainly got out of there faster than I went in! How many courses do you run into that?

Jul 03 2003, 03:17 PM
would of loved to of seen your face when it growled!! Would of startled the crap out of me!!!

But hey you made it out alive and thats the important thing.....

-m

xterramatt
Jul 03 2003, 04:07 PM
A brand new stolen Dodge Ram truck crashed on the brand new fairway for #13 at Renaissance during the Points Bonanza. It was stolen a few nights before, driven across the fairway of 12, through the scrub between, then across 13 fairway and crashed into some cedar trees on the edge of the fairway. The first person to spot it said it was still running. Back window was smashed out to escape as it seemed to be pinned in pretty good.

Stan made sure they didn't tow it until after the tournament so as not to damage the fairways. Good Stan.

MTL21676
Jul 03 2003, 04:17 PM
i second pecham's post....ppl were having to throw shots from in the bed and from behind it

Jul 03 2003, 06:59 PM
thats cool

okcacehole
Jul 03 2003, 07:43 PM
I have to add to the previous happenings, some same, some different

1) Cam Schwarts knocked a squirel off the earth with a thumber into a tree about 5 ft in front of him - looked like a truck ran over it

2) Frederick Gonzales and I are playing doubles against two local pros and winning, but for one childish reason or another he chewed all of his disc in half and then his bag after a shank shot and left the course - leaving me to odd man doubles and the win

3) Dolese Youth park had a somewhat heavy, white and possible mental completely nude women running around the entire course for atleast 1 hour - then she just dissapeared

4) Dolese again - Kyle Wilkes threw a sky spike hyzer that we could not find after some good searching...well we start checking up the trees and the local "woman of the night" is sitting up in the tree with his disc - he ended up having to chase her 3 holes before she would drop the frisbee

5) Will Rogers Park - anything out there is destined to be strange - if you have played it you know

and...tada

6) Not seen, but read about in the PDGA magazine..an ace while driving out of the park and shooting over the passenger and out the window - not to be done again soon I am sure

jefferson
Jul 03 2003, 10:47 PM
leonard, you are the worst speller in discussion board history. how do you mispell "Peckham" when it was the post right before yours. and you should always capitalize "Peckham".


BS

morgan
Jul 03 2003, 11:31 PM
what sort of [*****] would throw a thumber at a squirrel 5 feet away just to kill it? That's the sort of thing that makes me sorry to be a human being. Tell me the name of the guy and I'll knock his teeth in.

Jul 04 2003, 12:58 AM
dogs

Jul 04 2003, 04:48 AM
weird thing that happened to me is that i accident kamikazed the canadian goose with my Z-MRV and i actually broke the goose's neck. what a horrible scene and witnessed the goose's neck go backward along w the head toward to the body. watching the duck dying and all other geese was watching that goose dying with the webbed feet up in the air. after a while then all suddenly the miracle happened.. the broken neck goose has gotten up and got the neck gotten back to normal status and the goose looked so drunk and waddled aimless toward to the fence and sat there to rest.. then the other geese went to visit the injured goose and checking up on that goose and the flock return back to the normal daily activity which that is eating the grass and pooping all over the [*****] course. of course i was really concerned about that goose.. i stop by later in the day and next day.. no dead goose anywhere on the course. then later on i learned that geese's neck muscle are very strong. so therefore that explains! =o)

okcacehole
Jul 04 2003, 11:06 AM
he didn't tommy at the squirell intentionally,,,he hit a tree in front of him that was an accident...you golfers need to remember your fun and brothership you have on the course and stop bringing your bad attitudes onto this board

rtinsa
Jul 04 2003, 11:14 AM
I remember when I first started playing disc golf.
There was a creek right behind hole 8 @ Live Oak Park. And a squirrel was attempting to jump from one tree to another across this creek.
So the squirrel undershoots it, falls 40 ft and lands flat on his belly flop and you here this loud a@@ slap against the water.. And the little fella, swims really slow to the other side..all shakin up.
/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

pterodactyl
Jul 04 2003, 02:44 PM
You were trying to drown the squirrel! I'll knock your tee.........(my weak attempt at humor).

jzumwalt
Jul 04 2003, 02:54 PM
Last weekend on the way to Austin to visit my family I decided to stop at Cameron park in Waco and play a couple of holes while my wife and kids took restroom/stretching legs breaks. Just as I was getting my putter out of the basket on #16 I heard what sounded like a top fuel dragster behind me about a half mile away! I was thinking (who in the hell has that engine in their car)/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif I took off running towards the Brazos river and saw the finish of a drag boat race. It takes alot to make me want to stop playing but that worked. I jumped in the truck and drove down the river and watched some of the action. Fun day! I have heard alot of noises while playing but I never thought I would ever hear a nitro-methane burning drag boat at a course. Woo hoo!

pnkgtr
Jul 05 2003, 01:16 AM
Last week's random doubles a player in my group threw a roller than ran over a squirrel's back. Neither the roller or the squirrel were injured.

Nov 08 2003, 04:13 AM
Back in the early '80s we were playing an object course at Ft. Weatherill, RI on the ocean. Stiff breeze blowing. My girlfreind throws a 71 mold Midnight flyer 150' into the wind. the disc lands on edge does a U turn and rolls back down the road through the tee area and continues to roll another 50'. A -50' drive. After we stopped laughing we gave her a Mulligan.

Nov 08 2003, 07:32 AM
lightning strike a block away :eek: <font color="red"> </font>

hazard
Nov 09 2003, 05:52 AM
Didn't see it, but I was there...

At Kentwood Park in Raleigh, NC, hole 16 crosses hole 7. It was bound to happen eventually. Two simultaneous drives...one midair collision. It was during some kind or another of event, too.

Other than that, about the strangest thing I've seen on a DG course is me.

memphisdiscgolf
Nov 09 2003, 03:23 PM
In a SN Tournament this year at Wall Doxey, MS, a guy in our group throws a shank over the road that heads straight for a Ranger truck driving in the same direction the disc is going.

We all cringe cause the disc is about to slam into the truck...yet it barely misses and lands on the other side of the road passing the truck in the process.

Disc hits...and starts rolling. Rolls back in front of this still moving Ranger truck which promptly flattens the disc while still rolling. OB crushed by a Ranger truck. Sorry dude!

Brad

memphisdiscgolf
Nov 09 2003, 03:26 PM
Oh and something I havent seen....is something that is strange. Brian Street from Memphis streak of not acing since 1985 is still intact. He aced off a tree in 1985 and has not aced since, despite still playing regulerly and playing Advanced in Tournaments.

This past Friday he hit dead center on Hole #6 at Bud Hill...hit the pole and bounced back out. Ahh...streak continues. You can follow the streak counter at www.memphisdiscgolf.com (http://www.memphisdiscgolf.com)
hahahaha!

Nov 10 2003, 02:56 AM
was in a tourny somewhere here in Michigan, cant remember

what course...anyways we where waiting to tee off and i see

this lillte fawn bouncing around right towards us, after it

saw us it took a hard 90 degree turn and tried to jump

across a small ditch. The ditch was a little too far for

him as he mis judged it we heard a loud THUMP! the

little guy slammed right into the side of the ditch, and

bounced back up lookn confused as hell...after he

maintained his ground he bounced off the other direction.

riverdog
Nov 10 2003, 10:41 AM
I did see it and was there. Crossing fairways at Kentwood in Raleigh, NC at the Piedmont Random Doubles Tour - first shots on first holes of the tournie. Neither tee can see the other tee. Mid-air disc collision.

Nov 13 2003, 11:05 AM
I was playing in a tournament at Hoover in Columbus Ohio.
Our group just finished teeing off on the second temporary hole near the entrance and Brent Hambrick and his group were just putting out and walking away. I turned back to their group to say "hi" to Brent and we heard "FORE"! Brent winced, and ducked, a disc just missed taking him out of commission and BANG! AN ACE! The group behind didn't see them putting (there was a slight hill leading down to the basket) and Brent was hollering "Did you see that? Did you see that?" He almost gets crushed in the skull by a disc, ducks just in time, and the player who threw it got an ace! I don't know who nailed it but it was Great! If it hadn't been an ace, I'm sure good ol' Brent would have got in that guys face and had a courtesy lesson to teach him.

circle_2
Nov 13 2003, 11:26 AM
At the Okie Open a couple of weeks ago, Hole 10 at Hunter, my safe drive became errant and was heading straight for the blind basket (with OB less than 30' away)...we could only see the nickel and the top few links. CRASH/CHIIIIIING!!!! We asked the neighboring groups if it was in...and after some maneuvering, one of the groups said that it was indeed in! Meanwhile, my compadres are getting their $5 out, I've got goosebumps, and am totally pumped!! I'm already thinking that I need to settle down and use this added energy...rather than get used by it, as I've seen so many other "Acers" do at tournys.
We get up to where we can see the basket, and my blue KC TBird is sitting on the ground 5' away from the basket...WHAT THE #U@$?? What a crappy birdie that was...
Hit the basket 3 holes later on 13, the CTP hole, but was just a few inches too far out...
STRANGE!

Nov 13 2003, 05:13 PM
A disc golfer have a seizure...before he was completely 'back', he grabbed his cigar "remnant" from the ground and resumed puffing, glassy-eyed and incoherent.

[...was that necessary?!?]

Nov 13 2003, 05:24 PM
he grabbed his cigar [*****]



I love how our ever-protective censors think that cigar [*****], and sucking on a straw are bad things. Next, you won't be able to say [*****]-willow.

Nov 13 2003, 05:24 PM
hmm, [b]ing is ok, but plain old [*****] isn't.

Nov 13 2003, 06:36 PM
Parked my drive on a blacksnake - about 4 foot long, all curled up on a rock. Didn't even realize it when I picked the disc up; was too busy dealing with the thorns in my face. When I was ready to put my foot down.... :eek:

Nov 13 2003, 06:58 PM
Practicing at Dalaiwood on 15 - zCyclone grazes a tree and veers right - one hour later I find it inside a tree stump that is about 1 inch wider in diamter than the disc.
My first ace!

stevemaerz
Nov 13 2003, 07:40 PM
I was playing in a tournament at Lum's Pond State Park(DE). My foursome included Chris Stein and Eric Yetter. We were teeing on hole #1 and the wind was incredible. The first golfer (can't recall who) tees off and his shot is victimized by the wind and turns into an unintended cut roller. Chris and I also succumb to the wind . Although we put incredible amounts of hyzer on our discs they both turned over and went far right of the fairway. Eric was the last to tee and was determined his disc was not going to end up like ours. So he aims well left of the fairway and rips a stingray ( considered stable in '89) in a verticle hyzer release. The thing just flattened onto a ropeline headed for hole #6 which is about 325' off tee of #1 and 200' left of #1's fairway. To make things worse there was a foursome putting at the time but all of us were too flabbergasted by the flight of the disc to utter a "fore". The disc made a thunderous crash,black aceing #6 and scaring the crap out of the putting foursome who never saw it coming. :eek:

crusher
Nov 13 2003, 10:12 PM
Early 90's, Zilker park, Austin,Tx. The first throw of the event, this guy lets go of his disc, decapitating a bird that flew into its flight path after the release. The disc made it to the hole, and the player got 2 birdies on the same hole!

Nov 13 2003, 11:47 PM
...let me get this straight..."cigar [*****]" [yes, that is NOT a euphemism] is worthy of censorship?

Nov 13 2003, 11:52 PM
IT WAS AN ACTUAL C-I-G-A-R B-U-T-T, ***** IT!!!

Nov 18 2003, 01:07 PM
A couple of months back at Berkeley, Ca the #10 water hole. Les Dranic goes to throw a thumber, shanks it straight down into the water but...it skips off the surface. heads right to the basket and slams the chains.

seeker
Nov 20 2003, 07:57 PM
Around August at Barber Park in Greensboro I was walking around the construction that closed holes 7 and 8 (?) into the wooded section of the course. I walked over a little ridge, right up to a couple have an illicit rendezvous. The strange part? She wanted to continue but he didn't...

spartan
Nov 21 2003, 03:32 PM
Texas 10 Final 2002: Before 1st round see a P.O.S ca. FOR SALE 2K. No big deal.

After 2nd round. See same car but back windshield is blown out. Apparently someone threw a left-handy tomahawk on 14 Lake Course and came cashing down on the window. Oh yeah, the guy who did it was on the same card as the guy who owned the car.

After round: FOR SALE: 1500 or BEST OFFER :eek:

ching_lizard
Nov 25 2003, 12:03 AM
I never thought I would have anything much worthy of posting here, but on Sunday morning, I was playing an early casual round at Agnes Moffitt Park when to our surprise a deer went running across the course disappearing into the woods bordering the East side. Wow! This course is about as urban of a course as you can imagine...a good 10 miles inside of the Houston city limits maybe 1 mile from I-10 and there was a deer running across the fairways!!!

Does this qualify as a strange sighting? :D

Moderator005
Apr 16 2004, 01:05 AM
Hole 9 at Lake Nockamixon State Park. We search around for about 15-20 minutes for Brian Frederick's disc and finally find it inside a 5' tree stump! How do you play that lie?

Apr 16 2004, 02:12 AM
Lightning stuck my disc in mid-air, and left an impression of Ken Climos' likeness..

true story.

vwkeepontruckin
Apr 16 2004, 11:15 AM
2 squirells humping each other 30' up on the side of a tree!

Apr 30 2004, 02:45 AM
Hole 10 at Rosedale in KC, KS. A guy on the bench with a voluptuous woman was trying to proposition her into "being in his movie".

Same hole, there's a Rooster that hung out there all last year. He'd just come out and greet you as you played #10 & 11.

Same course, hole #15, my buddy throws an anyzer that goes down the hill. Comes back up with half of a glock that evidentally had been tossed down there many years ago.

Same course, hole #1, a peacock with it's plumage in full display came up to greet my disc.

In fact, nearly every strange thing I've seen on a course has been at Rosedale! :D

scoop
Apr 30 2004, 09:45 AM
Same hole, there's a Rooster that hung out there all last year. He'd just come out and greet you as you played #10 & 11



And not once did you invite me to join your card, or even offer me a beer.

circle_2
Apr 30 2004, 11:14 AM
Add underground bee-hives & a rattlesnake den! Ahhh, Rosedale! :eek:
Gotta love the island shot... :cool: I've said it before here...Rosedale plays as tough as any course in KC. (Except WyCo, Ted's Dread, and Swope Gold. :D)

johnrock
Apr 30 2004, 12:16 PM
Several years ago (I think it was '93 or '94), four of us were walking up to the tee pad at old hole #16 in Thompson Park in Amarillo. Just as we were getting ready to tee off, we heard two guys on "crotch-rockets" start racing down a nearby street. We didn't think too much about it until we heard tires squealing and looked over just in time to see one of the guys hit a curb and fly off of his bike about 10-15 feet in the air. We all looked at each other then ran over to see if we could help. By the time we got there, the poor guy had landed, turned over on his back (amongst the weeds and stickers), and went limp. We could see his face through his helmet, but his eyes kept rolling back in his head. The emergency personnel showed really quickly, but there was nothing they could do for the guy. The next morning, I had to drive to Austin for a tournament (about a 8 hour drive) and it was very difficult to get that picture out of my head. Now we call that hole "Deadman's Corner".

Apr 30 2004, 12:51 PM
Whomever started this thread, obviously has NEVER been to Paw Paw.

All else is sedate.

exczar
Apr 30 2004, 04:01 PM
Please elaborate (or at least allude /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif )

Apr 30 2004, 04:49 PM
Playing at the Memorial this year, I found myself teeing off on hole 11, (I think) right behind Dukes, and my trusty CE Teebird caught a little crosswind and sailed over an 8 foot fence into a parking lot. Just as I was walking up to find a gate, a jeep sped up to it, and out jumped a 65-70 year old man and picked up my disc. Just as I was getting ready to thank him(thinking he was a volunteer), he jumps in his jeep and speeds off with my favorite disc. Oddly enough, my roommate saw it for sale the next day, and I was able to get it back for a paltry 5 bucks.(thanks Durco). Talk about putting a funk on your game! /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

rhett
Apr 30 2004, 04:53 PM
I also heard about some kids sprinting on to the course and grabbing some drives, and then running over to that disc store by Dukes and selling them.

Now THAT'S stealing.

Apr 30 2004, 05:56 PM
it was mike williams disc from la mirada,it was so funny /sad watching mike run after these kids.they got cought later trying to sell it by dukes :D

bcoxxx
May 01 2004, 01:47 AM
at lake park course in lewisville, tx...i saw a dude playing the entire course with just a tennis racket and tennis ball...hitting the ball down the fairway and even putting like that. another player said he saw the same dude doing this while wearing a football helmet.

then (i swear!) a couple months later (just a few weeks ago) i was playing at northlake course in denton (about 20min from lake lewisville) and i see another dude hitting tennis balls on the course with a ball golf 9iron or something. i asked him what he was up to, and he said he lost all his discs, so he was improvising.

then...the dude says "my brother made up his own game down at lewisville and plays with a tennis racket and tennis balls".

weird brothers right there....

May 01 2004, 02:37 AM
Yeah. I was your group when that TeeBird got "lost." That guy was either very deaf, or a big jerk. Glad you got the disc back, tho.

hawkgammon
May 01 2004, 09:37 AM
You'll notice that most of the Maryland stories happen at Druid Hill Park. :D

Late summer/early fall last year. From the tee on #5 I see a SUV parked up the hill on #6's tee. I drive and approach 5's basket. The SUV is 50' beyone the basket. A nude man gets out of the passenger side and walks over to the drivers side, opens the door and proceeds to quickly get dressed. Inside the vehicle a nude woman is scrambling to get dressed. It's always the nude guys who get out, and not the women. :( I linger and wait for them to dress and drive off the tee. They go down the hill and park on the road. I play #6 and tee off on #7 which brings me back in the direction I had come. The guy is no where to be seen, but the woman is lounging in the truck, and as I head towards #7's basket she says, "How's it going handsome. Want to play with me?" It's a mobile prostitute! :D

May 11 2004, 12:04 AM
Not at a course, but my husband sleeps with his discs!

He says it's a Zen thing.

Jenn

May 11 2004, 10:24 AM
The guy is no where to be seen, but the woman is lounging in the truck, and as I head towards #7's basket she says, "How's it going handsome. Want to play with me?"



Being the nerd that I am my response would have been, "You play disc golf too? What discs do you use?"

my_hero
May 11 2004, 11:13 AM
Whats the Strangest thing you've SEEN at a DG course?



A squirrel gang-bang!!!!!!!!!

Seriously......on hole #6 at Veteran's Park in Arlington, TX a group of us saw a female squirrel standing on a branch of an oak tree with her butt in the air while 10 to 12 other squirrels ran up the branch one at a time and tagged it real quick. :D:D:D:D:DI felt like i was watching an X-rated version of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom!!!!

Chris Hysell
May 11 2004, 11:15 AM
More salad stories?

my_hero
May 11 2004, 12:59 PM
Seriously.....all salad jokes a side. :eek:

Jake L
May 11 2004, 01:10 PM
a side salad! :D

May 11 2004, 03:31 PM
great topic being that i only played under a year so far it is cool to read some stories like these. maybe someday i will see something interesting on the course. best thing i saw was a HUGE rat like a small cat outside some apartments next to course in toledo and a crackhead who wouldn't move from the fairway. we were afraid to throw because we thought he would take our discs to sell for more crack. lol

Blarg
May 14 2004, 06:57 AM
His name is Lopi and he's a fixture at my local, which is one of the world's oldest disc golf courses. The course is set in a wild, rugged piece of land that meanders on for miles. He's about six feet tall, wirey and quite thin, with vaguely Asian features. He looks almost delicate, yet very strong. He has a long black pony tail and is usually seen with his dog. I don't know him that well, but I know he's married, has a big pickup truck and may be a martial arts instructor. I've played a few holes with him and he was very kind and instructive. He always seems a bit distracted, or not quite there. I could never tell if this was drug-related or something else. Nevertheless, he has a certain aura about him. Almost as if he doesn't quite understand english very well, or perhaps is just very thoughtful, or functions on some other plane. I just learned today that he is a full-blooded American Indian.
His dog (who accompanied us on our round) is a big short-haired beige animal that looks like a blend of pit-bull and boxer. Pretty big and definitely intimidating, with its oversized jaws. I guess the dog is at least as big as a German Shepherd, possibly a bit bigger. I experienced the dog as a gentle, if distant, animal. I petted it and talked to it and it was docile and disinterested in me. I wrote it off as a 'one man dog,' and thought little else about it.
Today I saw the dog get in a fight with another dog. To me, it was just a dog fight. I've seen several and they are always furious and deceptively violent. All you can see is a blur of fur and teeth and saliva accompanied by feral growls, yelps and screams. Normally, the dogs sort themselves out and the fight ends with little injury to either dog. For some reason this fight was different. Right from the start, the whole area around these dogs was energized. People were screaming and cursing. Players started running towards the dogs from all over the park. A woman was screaming and cursing the dog violently. There were a few small children near the fight yelling at the dogs to stop. The other dog was a beautiful chocolate Labrador that I'd seen at the course before. Its owner was also screaming and trying to stop the fight. The things he was shouting made me realise this was not just a run-of-the-mill dog fight. He was screaming that the dog was a menace and should be put down, and it had happened before, and his dog cost a lot of money, and it was a show dog, and the other dog was a menace. As he hollered all this, plus numerous curses, he was reaching into the canine maelstrom to try to stop the fight. Lopi was grabbing at the tornado of teeth as well. This fight was never allowed to come to its natural conclusion, as Lopi finally literally dove into the dogfight and tackled his own dog and wrestled it to the ground. He was pretty badly bitten while doing this. The only blood I saw was Lopi's. I thought that was the end of it and finished the last three holes of my round.
When I returned to the parking lot at the end of my round, I saw Lopi and the owner of the other dog coming up out of a part of this park that is unspoiled wilderness. They had their arms around each other and Lopi was in tears. I asked him if the dogs were okay and he said, after a pause, "Yes they are."
He sat down and wept silently. He took off his tee-shirt and wiped his eyes. He kept saying something about "there were babies there," and then sat for a bit, with tears streaming down his face.
Then he said: "The dog was rescued. She came from a great bloodline. She was broken, she was broken. There were babies there, I had to put her down. Now I have to tell my wife."
He had taken his dog into the woods and killed it with his bare hands.

circle_2
May 14 2004, 11:44 AM
Whoa... :(

atreau3
May 14 2004, 12:32 PM
Yeah, that was pretty heavy... walked into work at 8:45 am (est) and read that.

Jake L
May 14 2004, 12:42 PM
Very sad, Very sad, Leash laws should be followed!

May 14 2004, 12:42 PM
Man that is tough! What about the Lab? Was it OK? Sad story. :(

scottsearles
May 14 2004, 12:56 PM
:( :( :( :( :(

So sad :(

Blarg
May 14 2004, 04:01 PM
The lab suffered a puncture wound, but has recovered fully.
It has a visible scar on its shoulder, so I guess it's no longer
a show dog, but otherwise he's totally fine.
I have since learned that the big pit bull was always fighting other dogs and had apparently been an ongoing problem.
Fine with people, but crazy and violent around other dogs.
Both dog owners are fine now too, and remain good friends.

clifftowne
Jul 16 2004, 12:34 PM
Ok - this is off subject but it was pretty strange. We were at La Mirada playing # 12 (one of the greatest holes series a while back - with the lake down hill to the right). Anyway, Jon Freedman's disc hyzers out and skips on the street, smacks a passing car and to our amazed whoops comes back in bounds ...under the pin!

We watched as the car executed a slow u-turn and Jon sheepishly heads down to talk to the guy. We are thinking "lawyer"....and when Jon reaches the car the guy rolls down the window and says. "Cool! I was looking for the course. Where is the 1st tee?"

memphisdiscgolf
Jul 16 2004, 04:24 PM
I was playing Cosser State Park course down in Enid, MS two weekends ago...and Hole # 18 is about a 340 ft shot with a lake to the left and a Ranger Station and restaraunt on the right.

Well my long arm is about 300 ft...but this was even worse..I threw the disc too high and it fell back left towards the lake...and landed in a parked Ranger Police Boat that was tied up on the bank while the Rangers were eating lunch. :o

Needless to say I didnt go climbing on the ranger Boat to get my discs...and had to wait until the Rangers came out and ask them for my disc. Doh!

Brad

Jul 16 2004, 04:42 PM
One time I saw some people "doing it" in the woods, aparently he didn't see me, but she had to, but just kept on going at it; I quietly picked my disc up and returned to the fairway.

Jul 16 2004, 05:18 PM
One time I was "doin' it" and I saw someone playing disc golf...that was wierd.

MMorano
Jul 16 2004, 10:38 PM
At Sedgleywoods in philly: my buddy Tee'd off on hole 2 which was filled with water and mud, he slipped and fell on his side covering his side & back with mud. I never laughed so hard!
same course: I tee'd off on hole 18 blue throwing lefty and released my disc at behind me and to the left of me (8:00) and landed 180 or so ft. away on the tee pad of 17. HEHE

idahojon
Jul 17 2004, 01:05 AM
Reese.

20460chase
Jul 20 2004, 12:46 PM
my first shot ever looked like a boomerang.I dont know if anyone else brought this up but I once saw someone using a basket as a grill.That was funny.

my_hero
Jul 21 2004, 05:58 PM
Toolen and i were just reminiscing. Easter Sunday a few years ago, one of the club members wore a shirt during the mini that said "***** YOU, YOU FUC*ING *****" in the largest, boldest letters possible.

Sheeeeesh!

Greg_R
Jul 21 2004, 06:40 PM
I recently had one of my craziest tournaments ever:

- during all 3 rounds I ended up -on top- of the hole 15 basket (one was a putt, the other two times were from ~100ft hammer approach shots)
- My putter hit the lip of the basket, popped up, spun around on its edge (twice) on the rim and then decided to fall out.
- My putter landed on the edge of the basket and almost teetered for a good 3 seconds before it fell (out).
- another putt hung on its edge from the outside of the basket (which counts).

I have never had any of the above happen before or since...

space76
Jul 22 2004, 04:34 PM
Six cops at Lake park looking for the guy that jumped out of there car and ran into the woods at the course. It was quite scarry. One more, J.Jordan looks like a giant. Especially in the Rec. division.

noey21
Jul 23 2004, 04:33 AM
First post!
3 weird things I have seen

1. I was playing a casual round at Stockton (CA) and there was a kids fishing derby going on and I try a roller (new to me at time) and it is going towards the water and I split the poor kids fishing line. I felt so bad cause well the kids you could tell wasn't real well off....and I felt he would probably have to quit. Nest thing I knew he got my disc out of the water for me and said here you go. I felt so bad I gave the kid 10 dollars Told him it was my favorite disc.

2. Awful thing .....the man in berkley who sunbathes in the fairway in his thong.....if you drive near him leave the disc or play real fast. it is an awful site.

3. One of my first tournaments someone not sure who's discs lands on the basket with out saying a word he goes up jumps on the basket and marks it and drops his putt in for par. I thought it was hilarious. needless to say he was a lot smaller than me,

cwphish
Jul 23 2004, 09:52 AM
1. The first time I go to play Kilborne TPC in Charlotte, I meet local legend Chris Kidd on the bench of #4 doing his thing, we group together and continue on. We are going down the path from 5 to 6 and off to the left in the woods are two obese-like, naked men. All I remember from there was my awakening to the "New South" assault style of "emptying the bag", where Chris proceeded to throw at and hit these guys several times with everything he had. Then another mando, and the round was continued. Didn't go back to Kilborne for almost six months!

2. The Vet in Texas. Coming off one of the holes, I notice some weird guy in medeival attire, sneaking around the woods. Looks like he has a sword and everything. So I am watching him close, ready to drill him with "everything in the bag", when I see this other dude dressed up with a sword, and he says to the other dude something like "Dare yee sneek up on the King. Coward show yourself". So meanwhile I'm right inbetween these guys now, heading for the next tee. In passing I say "Cool". The "King" looks at me and says "Silly wizard with his flying discs" then winks. Went on to have my best round of the tourney. Too bad the afternoon round counted too.

space76
Jul 23 2004, 11:44 AM
Those freaks are at the Vet ALOT. Also saw there cousins in Whicita Falls on the course playin their wierd arse game.

my_hero
Jul 23 2004, 12:02 PM
We call them Foo-Fighters :D

gnduke
Jul 23 2004, 12:07 PM
They were represented at Pease in Austin as well

exczar
Jul 23 2004, 12:11 PM
1. The first time I go to play Kilborne TPC in Charlotte, I meet local legend Chris Kidd on the bench of #4 doing his thing, we group together and continue on.



What does "doing his thing" and "group together" mean? My guess would be partaking and sharing, but I don't know Chris so I don't want to assume that, but the use of those strange phrases seem euphemistic to me.

gnduke
Jul 23 2004, 12:53 PM
1. The first time I go to play Kilborne TPC in Charlotte, I meet local legend Chris Kidd on the bench of #4 doing his thing, we group together and continue on.



What does "doing his thing" and "group together" mean? My guess would be partaking and sharing, but I don't know Chris so I don't want to assume that, but the use of those strange phrases seem euphemistic to me.



What about the other mando ?

noey21
Jul 23 2004, 01:01 PM
One more starnge and kinda weird thing I have seen.

A group of us were playing a casual round in Vacaville (Lagoon Valley) and just talking and we look over and there are like 10-12 officers in formation. They were doing training like walking in single file acting to go around corners. All of them had their fingers drawn (training so no guns). It looks really ridiculous on a disc golf course that has very little trees and a million geese. Looks like they were practicing manuevers catching the geese.

cwphish
Jul 26 2004, 09:53 AM
Partaking and sharing in celebration of a great sport. Sorry for the confusion.

exczar
Jul 26 2004, 02:54 PM
Partaking and sharing in celebration of a great sport. Sorry for the confusion.



It must be me, but I still don't know what you are talking about. Can you be more specific, or can't you because it was an activity you would rather not elaborate on? Throw me a bone here.

Moderator005
Jul 26 2004, 03:04 PM
Partaking and sharing in celebration of a great sport. Sorry for the confusion.



It must be me, but I still don't know what you are talking about. Can you be more specific, or can't you because it was an activity you would rather not elaborate on? Throw me a bone here.



Er, um, careful there - a "bone" is a slang term for the very thing you're hoping they weren't talking about. ;)

brianberman
Jul 26 2004, 03:47 PM
Nice Link, someone else tricked me into blocking a user on this board who was an *****.

I like them both

cwphish
Jul 27 2004, 01:36 AM
We enjoyed some tea and crumpets.

exczar
Jul 27 2004, 03:10 PM
Partaking and sharing in celebration of a great sport. Sorry for the confusion.



It must be me, but I still don't know what you are talking about. Can you be more specific, or can't you because it was an activity you would rather not elaborate on? Throw me a bone here.



Er, um, careful there - a "bone" is a slang term for the very thing you're hoping they weren't talking about. ;)



That's it. I give up. I'm officially clueless. A "bone", huh? My final guesses are drugs or a homosexual encounter, and I don't want to know any detail either way. Ick! :p

Moderator005
Jul 27 2004, 03:33 PM
That's it. I give up. I'm officially clueless. A "bone", huh? My final guesses are drugs or a homosexual encounter, and I don't want to know any detail either way. Ick! :p



I was 'reefer'ing to the former, but I guess it could also apply to the latter, but I certainly wouldn't know! :o

flyboy
Jul 30 2004, 02:23 AM
Golfers were playing on the same course.Jeff nice use of what you are not for, to promote what?Also a strange thing to see is a beautifull girl ,almost mirage like, bringing you your beverage of choice along with a snickers ,and a ciggar.It is so SUUUUUUUUREAL.......ilovewarwickithasflypadsandgre atdesigngodan

Jul 30 2004, 03:24 AM
I'm sad, although not surprised, that you would list a beautiful girl as a strange thing for you to see, Reese.

It may be time for you to stop posting for awhile again. Your image gets rehabilitated every time you take a prolonged break from this board.

J_TEE
Aug 31 2004, 01:37 PM
Iv'e also seen someone using the basket as a grill, they had foil in the bottom with charcoal on it. Then they had chicken hanging from the chains!! Thats pretty weird, isn't galvinized metal harmful if swallowed?

hitec100
Sep 02 2004, 10:40 AM
Thats pretty weird, isn't galvinized metal harmful if swallowed?



Non-galvanized metal is also no picnic.

Blarg
Sep 03 2004, 04:49 PM
This is maybe no so strange, but it's unusual. There're two guys at my local who regularly play the whole course with old-school Ultima discs. The big ones. Fun to watch the lazy floating glide of these original frisbees.
My local is the oldest course in the world and was originally designed for normal pre-Dunipace discs. It has been redesigned over the years to accomodate the new discs, but it's still fun to watch these guys struggle through the course.
They seem to have a blast doing it!

Sep 06 2004, 03:40 AM
At Will Rogers here in OKC there is a drainage ditch that runs threw the park and provides water hazard for some of the holes. The ditch is full of run-off from a large apt. complex, a four lane road, and everything in that part of the park. Long story short, it's really gross water when the stream is slow. One weekday morning as I'm playing, I see one of the local bums (there are always a few in the park) JUMP into the water and start swimming around. He had like a broken snorkel and mask on. I guess he was searching for lost discs to try to sell back to people playing, but man that water is gross as all getout!

widiscgolf
Sep 06 2004, 08:14 PM
Well Sandy Point Disc Golf Ranch and Resort have a bathtub hole and a hole that has a old classic car as OB in the middle of the fairway.

Moderator005
Sep 06 2004, 08:41 PM
This is maybe no so strange, but it's unusual. There're two guys at my local who regularly play the whole course with old-school Ultima discs. The big ones. Fun to watch the lazy floating glide of these original frisbees.
My local is the oldest course in the world and was originally designed for normal pre-Dunipace discs. It has been redesigned over the years to accomodate the new discs, but it's still fun to watch these guys struggle through the course.
They seem to have a blast doing it!



No doubt! It likely turns boring 350 foot holes into bonafide par four holes, and raises the total course par significantly. And since they play against each other often, they have something to judge themselves by.

Blarg
Sep 09 2004, 02:34 AM
350 foot holes? What are they? :D
It's a pretty short course. Most holes are under
300 feet. Lots of trees and tight fairways with low branches
in the way. Great for learning 'finesse' shots. Especially left to right shots. Not so great for learning distance, but there's a 500 foot open field in the center of the course that's great to practice on.
Saw Steve Rico shoot a 19 under for 20 holes one night.
It's his home course. :eek:

JoeThacker
Sep 14 2004, 04:29 PM
As in a prevoius post, at George Ward park in Birmingham, I stuck a disc in a power line betweeen the metal line and the insulation, and have seen it done twice since then

Also at GW, I threw a roller on hole 7 and a hawk swooped out of the tree and chased it for 10 or 15 feet before flying off.

A long time ago at the UAH course in Huntsville, the holes were 36" concrete culverts placed upright with a landscape timber placed in the center of the culvert to stop the disc. One unfortunate problem with these was that if your disc hit the side of the culvert with the correct spin, it would spin around the interior of the culvert and sometimes fly out. I missed my first ace like that. I was out there one day and saw a gut miss a putt from about 10 feet. He picked up his disc and wailed it into the culvert where it spun around a few times and shot out and hit him in the package :D! **** that was funny! :D :D

ANHYZER
Sep 14 2004, 06:37 PM
I threw a pearl colored proline firebird and parked it...until a seagull swooped down and picked it up and carried it 45 feet away from the basket :mad:, and I missed my putt...I wouldn't have cared if he took it towards the hole. :cool:

Blarg
Sep 15 2004, 05:00 PM
DVINCENT:
Heeee! Reminds me of the old joke about Jesus and Moses playing golf! :D

ANHYZER
Sep 15 2004, 07:51 PM
The course is very close to the ocean, so I think it looked like a big shell to him...The seagulls bring clams out of the water and drop them from 30' or so to the ground to crack the shell...This one was too big for him to crack.

ANHYZER
Sep 15 2004, 07:52 PM
DVINCENT:
Heeee! Reminds me of the old joke about Jesus and Moses playing golf! :D



By the way, :confused: what joke is that?

Sep 15 2004, 09:04 PM
Me and my friends were walking to hole #9 at our local disc golf course, and some guys asked us if we had any "trees"?

So my friend, trying to be funny or something, says "sure right here in my pocket i have some trees."

Of course he didnt know they were talkin about drugs and then the guys got excited and we had to run away.

Sep 16 2004, 01:18 AM
Seeing DVincent's avatar made me remember the Charleston Classic last year. The weather was decent for December, and there were hawks hunting squirrels everywhere around the park. I was teeing on hole 5, and this squirrel comes screaming down a tree, with a hawk swooping down on him from an adjacent tree.
That squirrel got away, but during the Sunday rounds, there was a hawk ripping apart a dead squirrel right on #3s fairway. (Kirk Yoo has some photos). We played right thru while he was munching, eating this squirrels intestines like spaghetti. Gross. I walked up to within 2 or 3 feet of him and he didn't even fly off! Just looked at me like "you want some?".
Also, I was playing a round with a couple friends and one random guy joined us. I saw a large praying mantis on a tree and marveled at its majesty for a moment. A couple holes later, I was talking about the mantis, and how they are endangered, and we see another one. The random joiner of our group walks up to it and smashes it with it his disc. He says "now they're even more endangered". This really steamed me and I started cussing him out for being a prick. He got in my face and said "whatcha gonna do?"
I busted out two of his teeth. Sorry bastage. There was a guy walking his dog down the path next to us, and when he saw what happened (just the punch I guess) he did an about-face and started walking his dog 180 degrees from his planned path. My buddies were about to crack up at his reaction, as he probably didn't know why I busted this guy in the chops. Needless to say, we finished the round as a threesome. I played well considering my throwing hand was bleeding.

Blarg
Sep 16 2004, 08:38 AM
DVINCENT:

Well, it's kind of a long joke, but here ya go:

Jesus and Moses are playing golf. It's a par 5, about 500 yards. Moses tees off and hits a terrific drive right down the middle that lands in the center of the fairway about 150 yards from the pin. He's very happy.
Then Jesus tees off and his shot is a terrible slice. The ball ricochets off several trees and a rock and lands in the middle of a lake. A turtle surfaces with the ball on his back, swims to the shore of the lake and drops the ball. At this point, a squirrel hops over and picks up the ball and runs towards the green and leaves the ball on the fringe, whereupon a hawk swoops down, picks up the ball and drops it into the hole.
Moses turns to Jesus and says: "Hey, you wanna play golf, or are you just gonna f**k around?"
:D

ANHYZER
Sep 16 2004, 12:29 PM
Blarg:

That's borderline :eek:...but funny :D. I'm gonna ask Jesus for some help like that at SoCal next week :cool:

noey21
Sep 17 2004, 02:13 PM
That one reminds me me of the nun confession joke about golf.

scottsearles
Sep 17 2004, 02:41 PM
LOL

More STAR'Z for Blarg ;)

ryangwillim
Sep 17 2004, 05:26 PM
Dave,
That story of the seagull and your disc is like the fish that got away. Everytime you tell it, the disc gets 5' further away from the basket! :confused: :( :o:D

ANHYZER
Sep 17 2004, 05:27 PM
I know...just imagine if I made the putt...It woul have been a 300' birdie by now :D

bruce_brakel
Jun 09 2005, 11:52 AM
Also, I was playing a round with a couple friends and one random guy joined us. I saw a large praying mantis on a tree and marveled at its majesty for a moment. A couple holes later, I was talking about the mantis, and how they are endangered, and we see another one. The random joiner of our group walks up to it and smashes it with it his disc. He says "now they're even more endangered". This really steamed me and I started cussing him out for being a prick. He got in my face and said "whatcha gonna do?"
I busted out two of his teeth. Sorry bastage. There was a guy walking his dog down the path next to us, and when he saw what happened (just the punch I guess) he did an about-face and started walking his dog 180 degrees from his planned path. My buddies were about to crack up at his reaction, as he probably didn't know why I busted this guy in the chops. Needless to say, we finished the round as a threesome. I played well considering my throwing hand was bleeding.

I was looking through the archives for an unrelated reason and came across this. You hit a guy in the mouth because you believed in an urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/mantis2.htm

5355
Jun 09 2005, 12:01 PM
About a month ago, I arrived at the disc golf course in Norwalk and there was a wedding being set up on the 12th fairway. I was bummed because I had one of my better "unofficial complete rounds" happening....

Jun 09 2005, 01:04 PM
I have not personally seen this but have heard it from several different people who said people have used the basket to barbeque and even heard about some on putting meat on the chains.

Moderator005
Jun 09 2005, 01:24 PM
I have not personally seen this but have heard it from several different people who said people have used the basket to barbeque and even heard about some on putting meat on the chains.



I've also heard that story many, many times. (and from different places around the country)

Jun 09 2005, 01:47 PM
I have not personally seen this but have heard it from several different people who said people have used the basket to barbeque and even heard about some on putting meat on the chains.



I've also heard that story many, many times. (and from different places around the country)



Hole #10, Greenwood Park, Baton Rouge, a couple of years ago. They were definitely using the basket as a BBQ, although I don't remember any meat hanging from the chains. They foil-lined the basket and had it covered with a bed of coals.

bruce_brakel
Jun 09 2005, 01:52 PM
This happened to a basket I saw several years ago, presumably on a Michigan course, I think at Firefighters. It may have grown to become a disc golf legend, but it is a legend rooted in fact. It has definately happened three times.

Znash
Jun 09 2005, 02:01 PM
The old BBQ in the disc golf basket. I've actually tried it to see if it was possible, and the fact of the matter is you can BBQ using a basket but it takes forever.

Znash
Jun 09 2005, 02:02 PM
I forgot to mention that the meat cooks uneven and is hard to flip.

Parkntwoputt
Jun 09 2005, 02:40 PM
Some of our fellow park users ask us why we are throwing things at the bird feeders.

Here is as much as I can remember of a conversation I had with two people who drove in the park last night.

Them: "Are you them one selling those UFO's?"

Me: "What?"

Them: "Those UFO's, you sell them?"

Me: "Well, actually it is that guy, and yes, they are golf discs and sell any where from $5 to $15 each."

Them: "How much?!?"

Me: "As little as $5 and up to $15."

Them: "Are they remote controled?"

Me: "No, you throw them like frisbees."

Them: "Ain't no way I'm spending $15 on a frisbee."

Them: "Is that Buddy?"

Me: "Who?"

Them: "Is that Buddy? Over there in the grey shirt."

Me: "No, that is Tom, he is the one selling the discs."

Them: "Oh, that looked like Buddy."

Them: (grumbling) "$15 for a frisbee." (Takes a swig of beer and drives away).

That was strange, and funny.

Pizza God
Jun 09 2005, 03:43 PM
I have disc on sale in the front of my pizza shop, non disc golf customers ask how much they are (when the price is listed on the wall right above the discs) and they always say "How much???" They can't belive that they are $8 - $18. (they always seem to want to price the FlyDye discs which are $18, on sale for $14.40 right now till the end of June if you are interested)

Moderator005
Jun 09 2005, 04:11 PM
This happened to a basket I saw several years ago, presumably on a Michigan course, I think at Firefighters. It may have grown to become a disc golf legend, but it is a legend rooted in fact. It has definately happened three times.



I know it's rooted in fact, I wasn't saying that it was an urban legend or anything. It's just that I first heard this story back in the mid 90s when it happened at Sedgley Woods which is in Fairmount Park in downtown Philadelphia. And as others have chimed in, it's also been observed in Louisiana and Michigan.

atreau3
Jun 09 2005, 04:35 PM
I heard that it happened also in Southern CA

cbdiscpimp
Jun 09 2005, 04:39 PM
I saw a guy throw a Z Flick hard into the chains from about 8 Ft and the inner set of Chains on the Mach III just fell down to the bottom of the basket :eek:

gnduke
Jun 09 2005, 04:41 PM
Walked up on a basket being prepared for cooking in S. Texas before a tournament.

rhett
Jun 09 2005, 05:40 PM
I heard that it happened also in Southern CA


La Mirada. I didn't see it, but reliable sources reported it. I've heard Climo report on it happening in Florida, too.

I believe the preferred method is to line the bakset with foil, add charcoal and then to hang chicken from the chains with hooks.

Jun 09 2005, 06:01 PM
Down here in Georgia, it takes a little patience sometimes:

(Playing disc golf, throwing past some park users, young lady approaches)

"Whatcha doin'?"

"Playing Disc Golf...it's like golf....blah, blah..."

"That sounds retarded"

"No, acutally it's pretty cool."

"Can I borrow a dollar?"

"No."

adogg187420
Jun 13 2005, 06:29 PM
Well, it wasnt at a DG course, but at a flymart. A guy was selling painted disc golf discs for $475. I repeat, $475.

MDR_3000
Jun 13 2005, 06:44 PM
hahaha, the guy at BG who wouldn't let you touch them either?

CAMBAGGER
Jun 13 2005, 10:33 PM
From the sound of it, he shoulda parted with whatever he was on.

dehaas
Jun 13 2005, 10:53 PM
Maybe 2 years ago on hole 7 at Carrol Marty in Ames there was a dead black scorpion that laid by the basket for a few weeks. Obviously it's cool to take your pet scorpion disc golfing.

Right around the same timeframe during a casual round at Walnut Ridge my group was walking back to our cars and passed a pavillion on the way to the lot. One of the guys was pretty hairy and was throwing topless that day, and we heard a little girl from the pavillion say "Oh my god, he looks like a bear". Obviously we all instantly lose it...but the best part was finding out like a year later that it was actually one of the guys in our group doing the little girl's voice.

adogg187420
Jun 13 2005, 11:47 PM
hahaha, the guy at BG who wouldn't let you touch them either?


Ha, he had them down there too?? I cant believe he expects people to pay that much...

quickdisc
Jun 13 2005, 11:48 PM
These two guys were playing a money round.
The one dude had a german shepard running around without a leash on.

First guy , hacks his shot off a tree and lands 2 feet away from the basket.

Second guy , guns his shot , same line , but sticks in the tree above the pin. Starts swearing like a longshore man who just lost his paycheck to a streetwalker.

Second guys dog , the german shepard , runs down to the basket, picks up the first guys disc , shakes it in his mouth, takes it about 40 feet away , drops it , then pees on it !!!!!!

First guy starts swearing at the dog. Dog looks back and appears to be laughing.

WHAT !!!!!!! :eek: :D

jebbeer
Jun 21 2005, 02:36 PM
I had a squirell catch the divine wind. Took a free fall from around 40-60 feet up and hit one of the very few pieces of concrete at our course. It bounced like a foot back up, and then staggered away. Would have been funnier, but the rodent came within inches of hitting me. What a buzzkill.

ellswrth
Jul 03 2005, 04:18 PM
On Friday at Aquatic Park "lefty" Dave Cooper threw his classic 3 ring roc at hole #4. We could see from the tee through the trees that the disc hit the ground left of the basket and bounced. But then we lost sight of it.

As we were up near the basket trying to figure out where it had rolled to, Dave yelped, "It's in the basket!"

Turns out it had landed short of the skinny stream that runs about 4 feet short of the basket, the disc hit the ground rolling, bounced off a rock and up over the water and into the basket. Craziest ace I've ever (sorta) seen.

We all agreed that we saw it hit the ground and bounce in the air, but we didn't actually see it in the basket till we got up there.

Fortunately Dave was my doubles partner at that point.

ellswrth
Jul 03 2005, 04:27 PM
This happened to a basket I saw several years ago, presumably on a Michigan course, I think at Firefighters. It may have grown to become a disc golf legend, but it is a legend rooted in fact. It has definately happened three times.



I came across some guys doing that at Aquatic Park in Berkeley a few years ago. Not only were they BBQing in the basket, but they'd ripped some branches down from trees in the park to use as fuel.

I didn't get the impression that these were very sharp guys.