Can you reference the rule you're getting at.

 In my mind it should be a gutter. He took his normal approach to bowl on the correct lane, threw his ball, and it ended up going on the lane next to him.

Can you reference the rule you're getting at.

 In my mind it should be a gutter. He took his normal approach to bowl on the correct lane, threw his ball, and it ended up going on the lane next to him.

4a. Legal Delivery
A delivery is made when the ball leaves the player’s possession and crosses the foul line into playing territory. Every delivery counts unless a dead ball is declared. (See Rule 8.)

Rule 8 – Dead Ball
When a dead ball is called, the delivery does not count and the correct pins must be respotted. The player is allowed to rebowl that delivery.

A ball shall be declared dead if any of the following occur:

d. A player bowls on the wrong lane or out of turn, or one player from each team on the pair of lanes
bowls on the wrong lane. (See Rule 9.)

The rule book does not define playing territory and does not state anything about intent. Regardless of the intent, the ball only made contact with and was "bowled" on the wrong lane.  Just my opinion on how I see it based on the actual wording in the rulebook. 

Happened to me one time, it is indeed scored a 0.

While, without that video, I've consider the playing territory to be the lane a bowler in on, seeing that delivery, I'd have to say it was a legal delivery: he threw the ball over the foul line, no matter the cause for the ball going onto the other lane. No one interfered with him. It has to be considered a delivery with zero pins knocked down.

Based on that flow of thought, I'd say a "playing territory" was any area passed the foul line from one side of the house to the other.

Remember, if you're on an end pair, and you fall or walk to the right against the wall AND if you touch the wall past the foul line, it is technically a foul. The foul line is not just at the edge of the lane; it extends, technically, from one side of the house to the other and up each wall at either end.

Agreed.  But the rule book doesn't say anything about intent.   If the bowler stands in front of the wrong lane and throws the ball down the lane, it doesn't count and he gets to rebowl.  He doesn't just get a zero in that case.

The rule book does define the foul line and says that it extends left and right and up the walls, etc.  It doesn't define "playing territory". And then also has a specific rule that says if you bowl on the wrong lane it is a dead ball.  The ball ended up being bowled down the wrong lane, regardless of the intent.

Should it be a zero?  Probably.  But the USBC needs to write the rules in the rulebook how they are supposed to be interpreted.  Their excuse is that they can't put every little thing in the rule book because it will get too cumbersome. I get it, but it would just take a couple of sentences or better wording to clarify a lot of their rules.  With everything being digital and search functions, it wouldn't be too hard to include and find rules pertaining to an issue even if the rule book was gigantic.  Don't put words that leave it ambiguous.  They seem to do this with many of their rules.  When you email them they will give a reply of what they actually meant the rule to be.  They just need to put that in the rulebook then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIv_0Xbv9Vk

I would like to see how everyone interprets the USBC rule book on this one.

If I didn't personally know this guy I might feel differently but honestly I wonder if he wasn't trying to shave 10 pins off his average, oh wait this was league not an ABT event... maybe it was legit then (MAYBE)

I think intent is implied in the rule even if the word is not there.  If the bowler is clearly attempting to bowl on the correct lane the delivery does not meet any category for being declared a dead ball.

Nice catch IC.  The ball does count as a legal delivery but scored the same as a gutter ball.   

I looked at the poll and realized 86% of the people are wrong.

And the other 13%, well they are wrong too.

It's zero for that ball, not zero for the frame.

I guess anyone who didn't answer it was correct.

Zero for the frame would be correct. It was the 12th frame,  not the 10th,  not the 11th.