Wow, look what I started. Anyway, sorry for having fun. We werent damaging anything, the mechanic is a very highly respected mechanic in our area, used to work on the machines at one of the centers out in Vegas. He was laughing right there with us, he even told us it wasnt going to tear anything up. It was half his idea. I have seen people cause way more damage in actual league play, or just people in there during open play. There is a guy who lofts at all of his spares, well it was the third game of league one night and his thumb had swollen up some. He went to loft at the spare, it stuck on his thumb, hit the edge of the lane at the right gutter about 50 feet down the lane and took out themasking unit. They didnt make him pay for it, he did not intentionally tear anything up, nor did we.
We werent kicking anything, throwing things, hitting the monitors, slamming things down, we were rolling the ball at about half speed to watch it bounce. The worst thing that would have happened is the napkins would have fallen off, big deal. They could not get jammed anywhere in the machine, they would shred to pieces before that happened. They would not get stuck under the lane on the ball return, they would have either fallen off or come all the way back up. They never once came off, never got torn up, nothing happened.
Yeah, sorry 300 900 for being "a shame to the game." Thats me right there, a shame to the game. Helping younger kids out, helping them get into the sport, giving them pointers, giving them equipment and getting them into the sport, Im such a terrible person. I dont kick ball returns, I dont punch tables, I dont punch monitors, its a GAME. Pull your head out of your butt and lighten up dude, if your machines cant take a few napkins then you might want to look into getting new machines. What can a napkin do that a flying pin cant? You're whole zero tolerance policy is bull crap. Let people have fun, it doesnt come out of your paycheck if something gets damaged.
You going to kick this guy out for "horsing around?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vbnwtL7I8Or how about Norm Duke comes in your center and wants to perform this for a few kids, you're going to tell him he cant do it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LFUVGaasAcOr how about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcqOM1o6LHk&feature=relatedThis?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCgxgXnOd2A&feature=relatedOr how about one of the oldest trick shots in the book?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxrLJcJXI4&feature=relatedSeriously dude, lighten up. Its obvious that its not only "kids" that like to do this kind of thing and horse around. You can tell the pro's enjoy the hell out of doing the trick shot shows, probably enjoy them more than the real events due to the laid back atmosphere and the creativity involved. Go up to Norm Duke, Brian Voss (the bouncing bowling ball videos were taped at the center that Voss coaches at and came from), Chris Barnes, Parker Bohn and the rest and tell them they are a shame to the sport for having fun every now and then. You sir are the shame.
/Rant
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Georgia Interstate AllStars 07-08
Edited on 12/20/2007 4:55 PM
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