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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: bgh on June 27, 2006, 07:07:14 AM

Title: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: bgh on June 27, 2006, 07:07:14 AM
http://www.kgw.com/mostpopular/stories/kgw_062006_news_bowl_brawl_.a56cd411.html
Wow! I shoot pot games there!  for a buck a game....
Well, I guess Cosmic Bowling for $1.50 was a bit too cheap!
Guess, the event attracted a rather rowdy bunch of kids.
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Edited on 6/27/2006 3:06 PM
Title: Re: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: BrunsMike on June 27, 2006, 03:11:17 PM
SO much for trying to gain profits!
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Title: Re: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: The Bowlers Edge 2 on June 27, 2006, 03:17:48 PM
amf ran these "dollar nights" also. With them it was 1$ beer as well, and no suprise those were the nights with the most "trouble" in terms of violence and arguments. Since the croud was 15-20 it probably wasn't involved there.
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Title: Re: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: BrianCRX90 on June 27, 2006, 11:14:13 PM
hell didn't that alley used to have PBA events in the 90's?
Title: Re: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: SirAshley on June 28, 2006, 09:38:02 AM
You can't have it both ways, people want the cost of bowling lowered to attract new bowlers, but it only attracts a lower class to our sport which in turn does nothing for the so-called integrity that the old timers speak of.

For anyone who's bowled on 1$ night, take a look around. How many serious bowlers do you see there?... Here, out of a 32 lane house, you might find one pair of lanes that has a league bowlers bowling on it, but most of the time, it's because they forgot it was dollar night.

My last trip to dollar night featured the people on the lane next to me dancing on top of the ball return, running around like Jerry's kids, and screaming--they were all around 20... The lane on the other side featured people who I suppose don't get let out of the cage to often, judging by the way they were throwing food. I didn't even finish my second game, I was just there for fun too, I was bowling with two people who never bowl, they don't even have their own gear. They were basically like, "So this is bowling now, it's ashame what it's become"... I simply explained to them that we chose the wrong night and whatnot, but how many people leave with that impression???
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Title: Re: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on June 28, 2006, 10:15:52 AM
I know of a couple places that run specials like that.  Usually the cheap bowling attracts complete morons unless it is early in the morning.  Morons can't wake up early.
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Title: Re: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: BigHorhn on June 28, 2006, 10:40:55 AM
Freeway lanes Wickliffe runs a special in the summer on sundays. Its called tempature night. Whatever the tempature was the day before, thats what the cost of bowling a game is on sunday after 7pm. Most of the real bowlers show up at 7pm when it starts, it goes to midnight I think. By the time 10 oclock rolls around we're done. The kids usually take over from 9-12. Its more of a family thing up until that point. I haven't heard of any problems, but there is a strong police presence there to. Its a money maker and a great promotion. I think there is a P.B.A stop there in November.
Title: Re: Police break up huge riot at NE Portland bowling alley
Post by: Stever5000 on June 28, 2006, 10:55:57 AM
quote:
I know of a couple places that run specials like that.  Usually the cheap bowling attracts complete morons unless it is early in the morning.  Morons can't wake up early.
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I love it.  "Morons can't wake up early."  That's definitely going into the Rules Of Life compilation.. right under "Don't spit into the wind."
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