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Title: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MonsterSmashR on January 13, 2006, 10:36:30 AM
I bowl at riverside lanes for my school team. Today I was bowling and the pin resetter came down my ball when it hit the pins. I am furious because it was my SmashR. now i put that away and i throw 3 frames with all strikes. Then i figure i will try the SmashR one more time. The pin resetter comes down and puts 3 big dings in my ball and some paint marks on my ball. So my dad sees this and he is mad. so he went to talk to the drunken owner and talked to him about my ball. The owner better buy me a new ball because he ruined my favorite one.
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: ChrispyBrownies on January 13, 2006, 06:44:29 PM
hmmmm. . .that sucks.
Hope you get a new one.

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Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MonsterSmashR on January 13, 2006, 06:59:40 PM
YA I AM GOING TO GET AN ABSOLUTE
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: nizzo on January 13, 2006, 07:12:42 PM
Most houses have that crap up where any lane damage is your responsibility, easy way to get the owners out of big jams, so if they don't have that then they should replace your ball, because that should not happen.

I would of been pissed if that were to happen to my stuff. But its good to hear your getting a different ball.
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Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MonsterSmashR on January 13, 2006, 07:17:13 PM
Yeah, the guy is a drunk and some of the stuff there is held together by duck tape. Where i bowl on a league on saturday morning is really nice. Synthetic lanes
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: DrWackypants on January 13, 2006, 07:25:04 PM
Laurel lanes out in new jersey is horrible about damaging balls.

My brand new Total shock and awe came back from the ball return with a huge motherEffing gash. But luckily they repaired it for free.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: killswitch66 on January 13, 2006, 11:43:46 PM
my lanes had to replace i belive 4 balls in the past month. 3 cracked completely in half, another had a gigantic chunk taken out of it, its pretty nasty. actually i had a school tournament today and i was bowlin next to a kid with a skull ball and it cracked in half somehow
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Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MonsterSmashR on January 14, 2006, 11:36:14 AM
who was the kid. was it anthony zamillio???
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: sdbowler on January 14, 2006, 05:16:27 PM
The paint will come off so no need to worry about that. I have seen plenty of balls get hit by the rake and have never seen much damamge done, so I don't know how much could have been done. Depending how bad it is and where the damage is just have it fixed. As far as an Absolute for replacing your SmashR unless you have it all worked out already I would not count on it. Most centers if they replace a damaged ball will replace it with a ball of equal value. Sorry to sounds so negative about this but that is just my experience on situations like this. I am sorry to hear that your ball did get damaged though.
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Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: budcotten on January 14, 2006, 05:24:16 PM
Hamilton lanes in new jersey is pretty bad the lanes are always broken down. Also balls are always getting nicked up or something. Also the oil machine is like 25 years old so the patterns are very inconstant it really sucks. I cant beleave I started bowling there.Now I dont even like to bowl there the only reason i do it cause i bowl for free.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MonsterSmashR on January 14, 2006, 07:21:46 PM
tHE RAKE DIDN'T HIT IT, THE PIN RESETTER HIT IT. YOU KNOW, THE THING THAT LAYS THE PINS DOWN.
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: headwest on January 15, 2006, 08:06:28 AM
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tHE RAKE DIDN'T HIT IT, THE PIN RESETTER HIT IT. YOU KNOW, THE THING THAT LAYS THE PINS DOWN.
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
brunswick is called a deck and I think amf is a table???
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MonsterSmashR on January 15, 2006, 09:22:17 AM
OK
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: killswitch66 on January 15, 2006, 09:47:23 AM
quote:
who was the kid. was it anthony zamillio???
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.


no the kids name was CJ
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Prime Time

Lane #1
Uranium Pearl
Tsunami


VIVA LA METAL MILITIA!


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Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MonsterSmashR on January 15, 2006, 07:14:26 PM
Man, I feel bad for ya
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Steve

If you live in a glass house, then you shouldn't throw stones and if you gotta glass jaw, you better watch your mouth, cuz i'll break your face.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: slowmofo908 on January 16, 2006, 10:28:11 PM
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I could beat that house. I am bowling a tourny today at a bowling alley that has above ground ball returns, the roof collapsed on the lane and the approach, so they both have watermarks on them. It is an 8-lane house and lane 7 has no gutter. The gutter caved in so the just have some padding there. It's gonna be fun.
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Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: rhinotec on January 21, 2006, 07:49:36 PM
Meadowcreek Lanes Houston, Tx chews up equipment and spits what's left out. They used to put oil on the lanes w/ a spray bottle(not sure if they still do or not).
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Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: MegaMav on February 17, 2006, 11:00:57 AM
Olympic Lanes in Menands, NY (has been the worst big name house)
Bowlers Club in Latham, NY (going downhill fast!)

i'd have to agree with Redwood also, there should be a wrecking ball going through that place real soon, they dont call it "Deadwood" for nothing.
Title: Re: Worst bowling alley
Post by: cable-tes on February 17, 2006, 11:55:50 AM
well I don't know how BAD my highschool home lanes are compared to all of yours, but nonetheless just terrible. This is Plaza Lanes in Madison, NJ.. The lanes are BONE dry, literally. Word is if you hit the 1 board it will take off, and through my experience it caused some last minute snap when going for the 7 pin (im a lefty) and on some occasions the 10 pin. Splits that you never thought could happen literally happen. My teammates and I always convo about how if you make a good shot, your likely to get a ridiculous split, or flush shots that are gone to waste with 7/10 pins. While on the other hand, if you throw a relatively bad shot then your going to strike regardless (fluffers, etc.).

 Eh don't get me started on the pin resetters. At my home lanes (during the off-season when theres no high-school bowling) I'm used to going 10-15 seconds and the pins are up and ready to go. But at Madison, literally every time it takes at LEAST 30 seconds to a minute to get reset, which gets frustrating after awhile. BUT, the worse part of all is that every match I go to, theres always a couple breakdowns . For instance, I'm working on a turkey and when I get up to the lane it just jams, therefore causing maybe a 10-15 minute repair. Also, theres the occasional "the pin setter didn't pick up the head pin" or blah causing you to reset it over and over, just terrible.