Author Topic: Craziest Bowling Stories (Read 10263 times)

guffnuh · « **on:** March 28, 2011, 06:11:07 PM »

This thread is just what the title says xD. I want everyone to post their best/craziest/favorite bowling story.

I'll start:

Just last weekend in a tournament, this guy has the front 11. Every single shot was dead flush, ten back, perfect. The guy had at least 500 rpm's and was throwing it really fast. Then on his last shot, he somehow stoned a 4-5. He went a little light and neither pin wiggled, just a solid 4-5. One of the craziest things I've ever seen.

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T C 300 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 31, 2011, 07:57:35 PM »

seen same guy this yr put it in the ditch on the front 11...TWICE!!

the 2nd time ball hopped up and hit the 10pin and knocked a few pins down... lmfao

my story...............

was on lane 29 left a 10pin.. guy to my right (lane 30) left a 4 pin.. i had a pin in the right gutter on my lane. instead of waitn on our SLOW mentaly challenged AMF porter (yes it was an amf house and the guy has NO NO bussiness of being there.. they just cant fire him ya know.. would mean lawsuit) i just decided to throw at it.. well i miss right, ball slides off into the gutter right about where the pin is in the gutter.. the gutter pin flys up in the air, ball knocks over the 10pin (woot woot)... well the gutter pin some how flys over to lane 30 and bounced on the pin deck and knocks over the 4pin that was standing on lane 30!!! lmfao.. but wait... it gets better!! the whole league is scream and shouting! not even this loud when some1 shoots a 300.. then you hear my name ovey the speaker system congrats on shootn a 300!!

L M F A O!! i was like WTF!?!? all that for an open frame...??!! o'well!! funnest and most exciting open frame ive ever had!! hehe

spiders2283 · « **Reply #32 on:** March 31, 2011, 09:52:01 PM »

USBC rules state that if anything on you crosses the foul line, not just your body, it's a foul. So if your cell phone drops out of your shirt or pants it's a foul. Not too sure about when the sweep comes down though

Strider wrote on 3/29/2011 3:55 AM:On the way down the lane, obviously crossing the foul line is a foul. Once the ball hits the pins and strikes and the rake has come down, is it still a foul?

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spiders2283 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:03:22 PM »

Couple brief ones:

*Practicing way back when and never tried the S1 soul on my SST 5s so I break it out. The house I bowled in had wood approaches so on the last step I stuck, ball rolls on the other lane, I go up between 3rd and 4th, and I have to get my ball back from the other lane

*Youth league, dude leaves his ball in the car when it's 4 degrees outside. Time for practice, he throws his shot and his ball shatters on the lane.

*I use my friend's hexplosion during league one night. I was 170 and never bowled a 600 during league. Guy who always talked trash was talking trash as usual. I open up with 3 strikes going into the fourth and another strike. I was happy and he says "pfffft please you're not even gonna shoot 500 tonight I bet you." Finish the first game with 279, he's still talking trash and says I bet you won't shoot over 140. I could pretty much roll the hex up 1st and it was like a magnet was in the pocket. Finish with 200, he starts to get progressively more upset. 2nd frame of the third game his girl shows up, they start arguing and he sees me throw a strike. He sees it and gets pissed, his girl walks out. Finish off with a 201 for a 680, he goes outside and punches the wall and has to miss next week because he messed up his hand.

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Walking E · « **Reply #34 on:** March 31, 2011, 11:36:05 PM »

I was keeping score about 30 years ago and a guy on my pair picks off the 7-8-9-10 on the first ball, leaving the 1-2-3-4-5-6. I don't recall if he picked it up.

My own personal "weirdest" incident isn't particularly weird, but it was funny. This was one of those nights when the Carry Gods had been on my side all night as it was. In the third game, my team is on back-to-back beer frames and I have a chance to make it three in a row (this was in a mixed league with some 150-160 averages on my team, so it was a rarity). I sail the ball wide right and leave the 1-2-4-7 picket fence, only something knocks the 7-pin into the 4-pin, which then starts everything slowly rolling forward to carry the strike!! I turn around and a couple of guys on the other team are on their knees bowing to me! Ahhh, if only I could carry like that all the time. ;-)

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BBU · « **Reply #35 on:** April 01, 2011, 01:46:29 AM »

Another story......

About a month ago, during our city tournament, a guy had the first 11. This was his first attempt at a 300, ever. he always told everyone that if he ever got the first 11, he would stop, and go get a shot from the bar, before he threw the last ball......and he did. He stopped and went to the bar and ordered a shot. He came back and threw it brooklyn and struck for his first 300. What he doesnt know is, our tournament director was about to skip him because he was taking too long to get his shot. After he was done, I asked him what kind her got. He got a grape Pucker.....wtf

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djones · « **Reply #36 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:35:32 AM »

USBC Foul Definition:

5a. Definition

A foul occurs when a part of the player’s body encroaches on or goes beyond the foul line and touches any part of the lane, equipment or building during or after a delivery. A ball is in play after a delivery until the same or another player is on the approach in position to make a succeeding delivery.

The cell phone example is not a foul. Until the next bowler gets on the approach, the ball is still in play and a foul can still occur. Technically, if a finger insert comes out on the lane and the bowler retrieves it without getting permission from the other team, it would be a foul. Same way with the cell phone.

JohnP · « **Reply #37 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:28:41 AM »

Also, if the ball is not released there can be no foul. Thus, Mike Machuga's flop was not a foul. -- JohnP

Rolling The Rock · « **Reply #38 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:02:48 AM »

10 years ago, we had a guy we suspected was a hard drug user bowl in our league. Opening night he shoots 300,99,200 for a 599. Never saw him again. Don't know if it was the drugs or he achieved his life time goal and quit.

Was bowling in a father - kid league and a 5 year old was bowling with us. He shoots 51 51 and had a 49 thru 9 for the third game. I told him he could get a triplicate patch if he could just hit the 10 and the 7. and I'll be damned if that's exactly what he did! (received his patch, too!)

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Roll2Win · « **Reply #39 on:** April 01, 2011, 09:00:02 PM »

About 25 years ago I arrived to bowl in a league I was in and was carrying my ball down to set it on the ball return. On the way down I met a fella from the other team headed back up carrying his ball that appeared to be all wet. He was laughing while toting his wet ball and I asked him what had happened. He said that he leaves his ball on the back porch and that it had rained last night and filled up the holes with water. I have no idea how his ball made it all the way to the lanes without losing the water out of the holes. The whole team were "Good ole country boys."

I remember something else from the same lanes and time period. We were in the middle of league one night when two police officers came in. They went right down to the lanes and grabbed one of the bowlers and hauled him away. They weren't fooling around either, they didn't even give him time to change his shoes.

iowalefty · « **Reply #40 on:** April 03, 2011, 09:38:08 AM »

about 2 months ago i was watching this lady bowl a strike..except the 8 pin did a back flip and stood back up in the 9 pin slot.

i also watched a lady leave a 4-10 split, except the 4 pin slid in front of the 3 pin, and in front of the deck entirely, but still behind the sweep.

i left a 4-6-7-8 split, picked up the 4-6-7-slid the 4 into the 6..

5 or 6 yrs ago i was shooting at a 10 pin with my plastic ball..ball goes into the gutter, bounces up, back onto the gutter, and rolls all the way back to the foul line, before the sweep came down.

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Juggernaut · « **Reply #41 on:** April 03, 2011, 12:32:41 PM »

A few years back, a guy here left the 7-10 and got pretty mad. He took his ball, literally ran to the line to throw it really hard, then his thumb stuck on release.

The ball traveled about 20ft in the air, landed on top of the ball return cover (cracked it), then continued down that until it hit the camera for the automatic scorer and knocked it completely out and nearly off the return!

When he got the ball back, it had a big gouge in it, which he then tried to get the center to replace. That really po'd the owner, who told him he had to pay for the damages to the camera out of his own pocket, so the guy would have to replace his own ball.

Don't know how it worked out or who paid for what, but the camera got fixed, and the guy got a new ball.

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