Rowey the li'l lefty
Your daily dose of random
Ok...I'm dedicateing a forum to all the mishaps that have happened to bowling balls over the years. What have people done to their gear? Here's a few of my stories...
One time my friend was bowling with his spare ball, and the pin spotter and gate were starting to go down...somehow the spare ball got itself past the gate, and got caught in between the pin spotter and gate.
Another time a guy bowled on lane 1, and sent the ball off the lane and down the back to the machinery.
A league bowler bowled his ball, and hit the gate...which probably sounds normal...except the ball split in half from the force of the shot.
Another time a bowler bowled a shot, and ended up hitting the gate hard, causing the light fitting to fall out from where it was, and making the light smash all over the pin deck.
One time when watching the skins at a tourney in Orange, a social bowler bowled his ball, hit the bumper, bounced the ball onto another lane and...struck.
One time while practicing, I was going for a 4-6 split, completely missed to the left of the 4 pin, hit the back part of the lane, bounced the spare ball back onto the lane, hit the 4 pin, and sent my ball in front of the 6 pin and up the gutter a little bit.
Another time, a guy who bowls at our centre bowled his bowling ball, and it fell off the track. They couldn't find it anywhere, and were trying to figure out what had happened to the ball. The lane he was bowling on was lane 8. 2 days later, they found his ball under lane 24.
That's all I can think of at the moment, but if anybody has any at all, post them up here.
Bubye
Rowey
One time my friend was bowling with his spare ball, and the pin spotter and gate were starting to go down...somehow the spare ball got itself past the gate, and got caught in between the pin spotter and gate.
Another time a guy bowled on lane 1, and sent the ball off the lane and down the back to the machinery.
A league bowler bowled his ball, and hit the gate...which probably sounds normal...except the ball split in half from the force of the shot.
Another time a bowler bowled a shot, and ended up hitting the gate hard, causing the light fitting to fall out from where it was, and making the light smash all over the pin deck.
One time when watching the skins at a tourney in Orange, a social bowler bowled his ball, hit the bumper, bounced the ball onto another lane and...struck.
One time while practicing, I was going for a 4-6 split, completely missed to the left of the 4 pin, hit the back part of the lane, bounced the spare ball back onto the lane, hit the 4 pin, and sent my ball in front of the 6 pin and up the gutter a little bit.
Another time, a guy who bowls at our centre bowled his bowling ball, and it fell off the track. They couldn't find it anywhere, and were trying to figure out what had happened to the ball. The lane he was bowling on was lane 8. 2 days later, they found his ball under lane 24.
That's all I can think of at the moment, but if anybody has any at all, post them up here.
Bubye
Rowey