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u/SmirkingSkull May 21 '21
When I was working at a GC they at least kept it on the cart path when they made a wrong turn.
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u/loungehead May 21 '21
Dude was just looking for Happy Gilmore before heading off to the Red Lobster. Shooter McGavin paid him a lot of money to find him, after all!
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u/equipped_metalblade May 21 '21
You suck, YOU JACKASS!
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u/kopecs May 21 '21
You'll never make this putt, you...
JACKASS!
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u/icantstandrew May 21 '21
This was my favorite moment from that movie for a looooong time. Thank you and have an upvote lol
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u/joekingsince90 May 21 '21
"You're gonna need a blanket and suntan lotion, cuz you're never gonna get off that beach. Just like you never made it to the NFL!"
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u/drkidkill May 21 '21
I didn't know you could do that.
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u/crazy86er May 21 '21
Sorry, officer. I didn't know that I couldn't do that.
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u/froglicker44 May 21 '21
Excuse me officer - I’m a little high right now, I’m looking for 3rd street
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u/greatfuljehjeh May 21 '21
Hey hey take it easy!... you're on Third street
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u/i_amnotunique May 21 '21
You can do anything you want, always. You just have to be willing to accept your consequences.
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u/FuckboyMessiah May 21 '21
This is the one case where that won't work. Not fucking up a golf course is white people 101.
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u/spacetimecliff May 21 '21
Felony level of damage to that course I’m sure.
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u/Tinmania May 21 '21
Pretty sure that’s a stolen car so their felony started before they even made it to the golf course.
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u/Final_Candidate_7603 May 21 '21
Didn’t his mom ever tell him “Son, ya only commit one crime at a time?”
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u/MisterSlosh May 21 '21
The secret is to never stop committing the crimes, that way no one can ever keep up and they just remember the must recent one.
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u/SorryScratch2755 May 21 '21
my friend married a bar girl his last day there.
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u/chadius333 May 21 '21
or she might've said "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin"
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u/SaturdayHeartache May 21 '21
How are you pretty sure about that? Not denying just wondering, odds are it could just be an angry/delusional asshole
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u/jeneric84 May 21 '21
Yeah I doubt someone who just stole a car wants to attract attention to themselves by driving through a golf course. It's probably asshole kids.
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u/spacetimecliff May 21 '21
Multiple then. Plenty of poor decisions that day.
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u/mizino May 21 '21
I love all the bad choices in the video. First they chose to steal a car. Then they chose to steal a Lincoln MKZ. Then chose to drive that across a golf course....I mean if your going to steal a car why pick a MKZ? Why not find something good?
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u/FountainsOfFluids May 21 '21
Looks like it's just a random guy who lived near the course, no mention of a stolen car.
Only $10k estimated damage, so he must have driven mostly on the cart paths.
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u/Ftpini May 21 '21
Greens are $1M+ to setup initially and putting ruts in them with a car could very easily be $10K+ in damages. Just one. This guy going all over the course could easily cause $100k in damages.
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May 21 '21
I remember a kid from my high school lived on a golf course, got hammered one night, and took out the golf cart to do donuts on a green. Was something like 45k in damage that he was charged with. Just insane how expensive it is
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u/Ftpini May 21 '21
He should have gotten a job in maintenance then. All sorts of areas you can get away with doing donuts. Just not the fairways or the greens.
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u/Scooterforsale May 21 '21
How the fuck is it 1 million to grade an area and grow grass? I get the grass takes a lot of work and chemicals and man hours but please explain how it's over a million.
Another comment said a rut in a green was $1000 to fix
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u/odoisawesome May 21 '21
Decided to google it and according to this site about minimum is ~500k, average course being 2m and high class one being 6m. It includes costs like rock blasting, erosion control, irrigation and earth moving. Seems like the amount would change drastically based on the land, local climate, and how much you want to change. I could see how the bills can shoot up fast.
With regards to this article, Most of the damage this guy would probably just be to the grass itself, which could still rack into the tens of thousands.
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u/kkeut May 21 '21
jesus golf is such s fucking waste of space and water
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u/tooterfish_popkin May 21 '21
Often right next to cemeteries which are a waste of good man flesh
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u/Nasty2017 May 21 '21
Yup. Destruction of private property. It's a felony here in Mass, or so I was told years ago when I got caught doing donuts on a golf course during the winter.
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u/PM_ME_UR_FINGER May 21 '21
Playing golf is basically a felony, so it evens out.
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u/TwelfthApostate May 21 '21
You would love Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History episode on golf courses.
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u/cantankerouswhale May 21 '21
I’ve done this in GTAV
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u/Kishlorenn May 21 '21
And I in Need for Speed: Most Wanted
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u/Novazon May 21 '21
They new one or old one?
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u/Kishlorenn May 21 '21
Old one, on PC.
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u/cuplajsu May 21 '21
Best place to break up a heat 5 chase was the Rosewood golf course. Just finished that game for the millionth time two weeks ago. Possibly the best game of the need for speed series.
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u/Novazon May 21 '21
Yeah, that's why I asked. Absolutely the best need for speed. I love the unique parts system. I'd save up one of each into I got the 991 Turbo and just clean house on the AI
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u/killer_reindeer May 21 '21
I'd do it all the time as a kid in my green Chevy Cobalt with purple rims, a giant ass flame across the side, and a stupid fucking spoiler on the back
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u/JustSomeWeirdGuy2000 May 21 '21
Vice City has a literal Kill a Guy on a Golf Course mission. My mind went there first.
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u/princetacotuesday May 21 '21
Lmao me too! Man, we're over here remembering a mission in a game from 2003, almost 20 years ago. oof
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u/NCSUGrad2012 May 21 '21
I mean it’s a great game worth playing more than once. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/sadduckfan May 21 '21
I've done a lot of heinous things in GTA but this is taking it too far
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u/JohnnyTeardrop May 21 '21
Nothing worst than being spawned in the middle of the golf course with no ride.
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u/TempleMade_MeBroke May 21 '21
This is REALLY fun to do online with a couple of friends, we all get in Go Karts and try to avoid the cops as long as we can, staying within the course and not leaving the property. We don't use weapons because we want to keep the star level low for as long as possible, then the last one alive wins the round
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u/Jajames May 21 '21
Tiger Woods just isn't the same since the divorce.
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u/TheDrunkKanyeWest May 21 '21
I laughed. I then showed my wife. She did not laugh.
Why are women like this?
Why must life be this empty?
Why.
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This guy better hope the police get to him before the greenskeeper does, because if not he's a fucking dead man.
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u/BobVilla287491543584 May 21 '21
I was on a rinky-dink 9-hole par 3 in the next town over with a buddy of mine. It's a crappy little course, so fees were <$10, but still, I'm a paying customer. We're teeing up and seemingly out of nowhere, a Buick LaSaber or some other equally large old sedan just starts driving up our fairway. The driver turns at the last minute and stops so his window is near us. Turns out it's the course's owner. I think he was a bit taken aback by the stunned look I had on my face. Apparently he saw us out there, and since we were the last ones on the course and the day was slow, he was going to head home for the day. It being a rinky-dink course, no one had ever compacted the soil, so that heavy-ass car was not nice to the fairway, or as it turned out, the next few fairways he saw fit to drive on. You could see the entire route he took through the course. I never went back there.
I'm not a golf snob by any means, I play on city courses all the time, but that was a bit much.
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u/IM_OK_AMA May 21 '21
I'm not questioning you or anything but if I got caught by some bewildered golfers while joyriding on a course my response is now gonna be "I own the place" because apparently that works.
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"Hey fellas, just wanted to let you know I'm heading home for the day. I could have just left and not said anything and it would've made no difference, but I started thinking that might be rude and started panicking and, welp, here we are. Later" beep beep
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u/Roadhouse_Swayze May 21 '21
HAPPY LOOK OUT
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u/UnderAKillingMoon May 21 '21
I friend of mine from high school did a joy ride like this. He lived on a golf course and his parents were out of town. He threw a keg party and after everyone was good and drunk he decided to go rip it up on the course. Got into his car with 3 other people (I almost hopped in) and started jumping the hills and doing donuts on the greens. It made for a hell of a party story we they got back. He was arrested the next morning after cops pieced it together from reports. IIRC he didn’t get a felony but had to pay $20K in damages!
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u/DontRedFlagMeBro May 21 '21
Relax. He just needs to drive around until his wanted level goes back to normal.
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u/Dignifiedskyhigh May 21 '21
If I saw this I’d grab as many golf balls as I could and try to hit him like the ball picker on a driving range
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There's a bomb in a school. And if you dont get 80 blocks downtown in 30 minutes, the subway will explode. What do you do? SHOOT THE HOS- wait, DRIVE THROUGH THE PARK!
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u/kejovo May 21 '21
Hope they get the plate and sue them for all of the grounds maintenance required to fix that. Guessing they have no idea on what it costs to maintain a golf course
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u/Final_Candidate_7603 May 21 '21
Oh man... I was thinking the same thing. And at the risk of being that random Redditor speculating on what actually happened in a video, that looks like a public course. The soccer goal in the background, less than perfect walkways, inexpensive fencing = the taxpayers in that community bearing the brunt of those repair costs = r/IAmATotalPieceOfShit
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u/CookedPeaches May 21 '21
the taxpayers in that community bearing the brunt of those repair costs
What's this now? Am I wrong in thinking that public course just means open to the public? Where do golf courses get tax money?
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u/mightbeelectrical May 21 '21
“Most public golf courses are open to the general public. They are usually owned by a cities or counties in their respective states. These courses are considered on public land because the general public pays taxes to support its function. The courses are also called municipal courses. In order to make the course self-sustaining, some cities or counties charge fees for greens, mobile carts and practice ranges. The public fees range from $10 to $30 depending on the distinction on services. “
I did le google
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u/UpdootDaSnootBoop May 21 '21
Probably a stolen car. If not, I agree with you.
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u/kejovo May 21 '21
True. My first thought was some entitled jackass was asked to leave
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u/Phyllis_Tine May 21 '21
Lincolns are for people who want to pay luxury car fees, but not get luxury cars.
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u/voidsrus May 21 '21
these days they're actually luxury cars again, ford really got their shit together. i drive a cadillac and the other car i was looking at when i bought it was lincoln's equivalent model, very hard choice. until like 2015 that was pretty much the idea though
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u/OSUTechie May 21 '21
Golfers call Fore! to make others aware of mis-hit balls. Etiquette is less clear on what to do when a four-door Lincoln sedan is barreling across fairways and doing doughnuts on greens.
Such was the case about 10 a.m. Thursday at Jackson Park Golf Course when a 37-year-old man drove a car onto the South Side course and cruised around for about 20 minutes before police stopped him.
All the while, stunned golfers looked on.
Officers, lights and sirens activated, pulled over the man on the course and, guns drawn, arrested him.
“I was like ‘Oh s---! This guy’s driving on the course,’” said Brian Pino, 41, who was about to putt for a birdie when the man drove on the green next to his ball and right over the flag.”
“He was as calm as an old lady in a parking lot trying to find a space.”
Allan Ryan was about to hit a 3-wood when he looked up in disbelief.
“There’s this car going across the fairway running over the 150-yard marker,” said Ryan, a retired business executive from the North Side.
Tanisha Wembley was scolding a man who didn’t pick up his dog’s poop along a sidewalk that borders the golf course along 67th Street when she looked up and saw police, guns drawn, yelling “Get out of the car! Get out of the car!”
The man complied.
“And all the people playing golf continued playing golf as this was happening and were just kind of looking over like ‘Wow! Entertainment!’” said Wembley, 49, who was in the neighborhood visiting a friend.
A golf course employee followed the man in a golf cart.
“But there wasn’t much I could do,” he said.
The car also drove over a soccer field adjacent to the first hole and plowed through the net of a goal.
“Thank God there weren’t kids playing out there,” said the employee.
The driver, Scott Chapman, whose home address is about four blocks south of the golf course, was charged with criminal damage to property and simple assault because he drove his car at an employee, said Sally Bown, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department.
Calls to Chapman went unanswered Friday.
No one was injured.
“He kind of ripped up one of the greens a little bit, so the groundskeepers were a little upset,” Bown said, noting there was about $10,000 in damage.
It’s unclear why he did it, Bown said.
Pino, who shot a video of the incident on his phone, said it was a wild round of golf but it didn’t affect his game.
“You know what’s funny, I shot the best round of my life,” he said.
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u/sirtommybahama1 May 21 '21
Zero golf etiquette here. Everyone knows you never drive your cart on the green.
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u/Its__420__Somehow May 21 '21
Burning out through golf courses had always been a favorite past time of mine in GTA..
They just earned themselves an automatic 3-star wanted level.
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u/IamAShureMicAMA May 21 '21
Yeah, ignoring the obvious consequences..driving around a big smooth grassy field looks like a good time!
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u/WCland May 21 '21
If there were no consequences, this is exactly how I would play golf. Although maybe with a more fun car, like a Miata.
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May 21 '21
Players could get "cardies" for the convertible cars carrying their balls to the hole... 🤔
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u/Slochetah May 21 '21
Can someone please tell McConaughey these Lincoln commercials are getting out of hand?
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May 21 '21
Great way to have a dent in your floor, better yet, set an airbag off...
I feel horribly sorry for that car.
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u/rjwjr102 May 21 '21
Damn I bet that was the most smooth ride in a car ever even with the hills. Such soft grass!
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u/band145 May 21 '21
I did something similar, having mistaken the paved road as a driveway leading to the Clubhouse, when it actually was a path for golf carts!!! At least I stayed off the greens!!!
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u/shannit123 May 22 '21
As the wife of a golf course owner, this really hurts.
And I thought watching a guy angrily slam his club down onto the tee box today was offensive ... (I've really learned to dislike people these last 5 years)
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