FORE! (Or Four?) Man Bites Off Golfer's Thumb To The Knuckle At Massachusetts Golf Club

"Police were called to the Southers Marsh Golf Club in Plymouth around 6:30 p.m. for a report of an 'altercation' between two players, Plymouth Police Chief Michael Botieri told Boston25 News. When they arrived, they found one man suffering a 'bite injury to the hand,'" Fox News reported.

"Firefighters arrived at the scene and discovered the victim had one of his thumbs bitten off to his knuckle, WCVB reported."

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When did Golf become a 'Contact' Sport?

It always was a occasional contact game. Players and spectators have been pelted and occasionally hit by balls and clubs.
Now then it does have a "blood" sport element to it at heated times.

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When did Golf become a 'Contact' Sport?

Many years ago:)
I was once walking on golf course at winter.
Lot of snows and I thought it was closed.
Swisssh.... right above my head.
They used orange balls if you want to know.
Like a politician in the US:)
Well golfers are somewhat peculiar.

When did Golf become a 'Contact' Sport?

If it weren't for the bad language violating forum rules, I would give a link to a video clip of Happy Gilmore with Bob Barker and Adam Sandler fighting on the green.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

When did Golf become a 'Contact' Sport?

If it weren't for the bad language violating forum rules, I would give a link to a video clip of Happy Gilmore with Bob Barker and Adam Sandler fighting on the green.

Hehe:)
Adam Sandler played the character of a former bad hockey (a very contact sport) player but managed to be a very good golf player instead.
Now is this unusual?
Not at all. Sven "Tumba" ended his career with building a golf course.
Peter "Foppa" Forsberg as well.
And of course Mats "Sudden death" Sundin.
Eh... The hockey player I mentioned was actualluy very good hockey players. :)

My drive-in adventure pictures are over here:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82358&postid=1950928#1950928

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Wilmette mom investigated for letting 8-year-old walk dog around the block. 'For something like this to happen to me, there’s something really wrong.'

Just after returning home from a walk around the block with her dog, Marshmallow, an 8-year-old Wilmette girl expected a visit from a playmate. Instead, police officers arrived at the family’s door.

An anonymous caller had contacted police after seeing the girl walking the dog alone, said her mother, Corey Widen. While police never pursued charges, the seemingly common activity launched an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigation to see if Widen was neglecting her children, she said.

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OK, i'm easily amused, but I do think this was an excellent piece of out of the box thinking.
Motorbike alternator stator dies. 1 weeks wait to get another and don't want to hang around for all that time waiting. $1,000 to get bike home, so what do you do...

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Grant
Darwin NT

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The memoir by Steve Jobs' daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person whose bad behavior was repeatedly enabled by those around him

* It has been well established that the Apple cofounder Steve Jobs often acted like a jerk.

* But in a new memoir, Jobs' eldest daughter describes many ways he was cruel to her.

* The new anecdotes add color to the many stories of how Jobs was mean or rude to employees and business partners.

* The net effect is that Jobs looks like a truly terrible person.

* His rotten behavior was enabled by his wife, his colleagues, and his business partners.

* It's hard to say whether his business achievements outweigh his cruelty, but they certainly got more attention during his lifetime — and helped enable his bad behavior.

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A bit of excitement last night in Perth & WA's south-west.
'Meteor' lights up sky over Perth and WA's south-west, causing sonic booms that rattled houses.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Holy cow! I'd love to see something like that.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Holy cow! I'd love to see something like that.

Luckily it wasn't nearly as exciting as the Chelyabinsk meteor event back in 2013 (was it really that long ago?!?!).

By 5 March 2013 the number of damaged buildings was tallied at over 7,200, which included some 6,040 apartment blocks, 293 medical facilities, 718 schools and universities, 100 cultural organizations, and 43 sport facilities

Chelyabinsk meteor video collection

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Grant
Darwin NT

Ship of Fools V – Yet Another Greenie Expedition Scuppered by Ice

Yet another Arctic expedition to raise awareness of “global warming” has been frustrated by unexpectedly large quantities of ice.
This time the climate chumps were a party of scientists, students and filmmakers from the University of Rhode Island’s Inner Space Center (ISC) sponsored – your tax dollar at work – by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Their mission: “Research to aid understanding of/document climate change effects” in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago aboard a Russian ship Akademik Ioffe.

But now the ship has been damaged after becoming grounded in the ice and its passengers have had to be rescued.

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It's good that didn't pop up in politics ;) I might have had to have a reeeeeeeally long look into it. I didn't though - or rather... I just had a quick sidelong squizz instead. The writer (James Delingpole) is one I'm a bit familiar with, you see. He erm, sees himself as an "interpreter of interpretations" which I think is really the pinnacle of his most accurate of accuracy-ness's ;) But leaving aside the pleasure cruise that that was, there is an actual scientific expedition that is planning to get stuck in the ice this coming winter. It's in order to measure/chart/etc how the polar cap flows amongst other stuff, which could prove interesting. Or not.

The MOSAIC project

Either way, I expect Mr Delingpole will do a lot of interpreting with that one too... y-e-e-e-s... ;)

Funny that Germany still has ice breakers.
Since the early 80's there have not been so much ice to break in the Baltic Sea.
For example our fleet of ice breakers doesn't have so much to do anymore.
So they go to the Artic instead part of scientific research instead:)
Sweden's ice breaker Oden is also there again at the North Pole as we speak.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/isbrytaren-oden-ute-pa-forskningsexpedition

And Russians and Americans are also set out on an expedition to a land of great change.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2018/08/russians-and-americans-set-out-expedition-land-great-change

There is a common ground in Arctic research and there is never any talking about politics, he argues.
«You would think there would be, but there is no politics on this ship. We do not talk any politics, not even over the dinner table. Zero.»
We simply do our jobs, Dunn underlines.

I used to do that all the time when I was younger!

Walked the mile to school by myself from age seven as well.

Kids these days...

Wilmette mom investigated for letting 8-year-old walk dog around the block. 'For something like this to happen to me, there’s something really wrong.'

Just after returning home from a walk around the block with her dog, Marshmallow, an 8-year-old Wilmette girl expected a visit from a playmate. Instead, police officers arrived at the family’s door.

An anonymous caller had contacted police after seeing the girl walking the dog alone, said her mother, Corey Widen. While police never pursued charges, the seemingly common activity launched an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigation to see if Widen was neglecting her children, she said.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

I used to do that all the time when I was younger!
Walked the mile to school by myself from age seven as well.
Kids these days...

So did I.
Even trusted to "walk" ten cows alone when I was at the age nine to eleven.
And later trusted Jacqueline from Ghana and Shirouk from Iraq, about eight or nine years old, to walk our dog Tosca only three years ago!

Even trusted to "walk" ten cows alone when I was at the age nine to eleven.

Yeah, but cows generally know when it's time to come in & go out & where to go.
:-)

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Grant
Darwin NT

Even trusted to "walk" ten cows alone when I was at the age nine to eleven.

Yeah, but cows generally know when it's time to come in & go out & where to go.
:-)

So do our dog Tosca as well:)
Actually you could set your watch when she need to go outside.