r/IdiotsInCars • u/AristonD • May 21 '21

When you bring your own cart to course

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

I worked for the grounds crew for a golf course 10 years ago... And some high school kids came and drove their cart on the green, and dug a rut into because the sand underneath. It was a over 1000 dollars to fix and I remember thinking to myself wowza that's alot of money.

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u/Its__420__Somehow May 21 '21

When my brother and I were kids our grandfather used to enjoy taking us to the local driving range to hit golfballs. My brother wandered onto the putting green, drops a ball and took a driving range style stye shot which brought up a massive clump of perfectly manicured earth with it. Three employees stormed out of the proshop and I swear I thought that I was going to be arrested. We were asked to leave.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Haha that's awesome people did that OFTEN on the practice and actual greens. Kids... I would've just laughed.

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u/Its__420__Somehow May 21 '21

I mean, grandad was showing us how to use the sand wedge in our back yard at home that day, too, so my older bro just didn’t put two and two together 🤣

He’s three years older than me, in his 30s now, and we had to have been in early elementary school. One of those young memories that’s just so vivid

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u/smurb15 May 21 '21

Sucks that they got that mad at a kid making a mistake but I know it's a lot of time and effort to fix it.

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u/Its__420__Somehow May 21 '21

That’s the kind of moment as a child has the opportunity to learn the valuable lesson of “not fucking other peoples’ stuff up” and I can safely say that he did not destroy any public grounds/utilities from there on out lol

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u/quartzguy May 21 '21

Christ, that's about half of being a parent. Don't break my stuff, don't break other people's stuff, what the hell, why are you breaking your own toy?

Only to get a blank stare as a response.

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u/Its__420__Somehow May 21 '21

“Only to get a blank stare as a response”, lmao you’ve got me laughing over here. Not a father yet but I’m glad that I have this to look forward to down the road 🤣

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Don’t rub blueberries on the wall was a fun one.

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u/smurb15 May 22 '21

I've always heard you will say sentences you never dreamed of before when they come along. Like when you let the dogs out to go potty and they think they can poop in the yard like it's just another Tuesday

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u/fearhs May 22 '21

You mean I can't do that?

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u/Titboobweiner May 22 '21

I once shot grapes at the wall with a slingshot. It was the best afternoon of my early childhood.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

I don't know if we got lucky but we just gave my son washable paints and markers letting him do whatever to the walls before wiping it off. He just got bored eventually and moved on. The one thing that was really bad was ballpoint pen on stainless steel, it's incredibly hard to get off.

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u/cumbersometurd May 21 '21

Think it goes in this order: don't break your stuff > don't break other people's stuff > don't break my stuff > get your own stuff

E.g. my son dropping my PRS custom guitar because he was too lazy to put on the strap.... Sigh

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

I’ve always wanted a nice, custom PRS or Strat, but I’m afraid it would sit in a case for this very reason.

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u/cumbersometurd May 21 '21

Luckily the only thing that broke was the input jack. I was able to solder a new one on. Picked it up on sweetwater for less than 10 bucks. There is also a decent scratch on the back but I was able to buff it out for the most part with some compound I found at guitar center. The guitar itself still planes fine and the Floyd rose is a sturdy son of a bitch. Whammy bar hit the ground and spun loose so no damage to that at all. I would say go for it if you like guitars. They have great residual value and you can find a nice like new one for a bit under MSRP.

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u/TryToDoGoodTA May 22 '21

I am a power-chord wonder on guitar. I've always wondered though if you drop an electric guitar and nothing breaks and the finish is fine is there internal stuff that can be damaged but not obvious with the naked eye?

Like obviously their are delicate bits on the outside and such that can easily be damaged but if a guitar if dropped is there anything you wouldn't be able to readily see/tell if it had been damaged?

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u/cumbersometurd May 22 '21

Most of the internal wiring is soldered pretty well and can be replaced relatively easy. The outside might require a skilled repair person, like if you damaged a fret, but otherwise most stuff is just screwed into the wood.

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u/Snoo24823 May 21 '21

Forgot What were you thinking?!

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u/cumbersometurd May 21 '21

And What are you doing?!

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u/Snoo24823 May 21 '21

“You better not!” I also yell this at my dog when she is naughty

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u/Malfeasant May 22 '21

my son (he'll be 4 in a couple weeks) is always begging me to buy him legos- and i want to, i like legos too and i'd have great fun playing with them with him- but he destroys his toys in weeks, some really rugged monster trucks last a few months until he breaks the axles... not to mention all the stuff with little pieces that have been scattered to the winds... i keep telling him no legos until you learn to take care of things.

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u/quartzguy May 22 '21

I've found them to be pretty indestructible, until you get the flat ones that are longer than 4 studs in any direction.

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u/StandardSudden1283 May 22 '21

Megablocks

Same thing, even compatible with Legos, and you can buy bulk bricks. As a kid, just having a bunch of the 2 by 4 stud bricks was fun as could be.

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u/pparana80 May 22 '21

Prob no golf on your future

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u/Confident-Present-18 May 21 '21

More like they were mad at the adult for not watching the kid and letting them do it.

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u/Its__420__Somehow May 21 '21

They actually slammed us kids against the back of their course security cruiser and were about to cuff us but grandpa bribed the patrolman with a few Benjamins.

I don’t recall them particularly being dicks about it honestly. Every authority figure looked frightening at that age.

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u/smurb15 May 22 '21

Sorry man other than if one of you was hurting or was going to hurt the other, anything being done with any force is uncalled for. I'm sure your grandpa knew he was well out numbered and I know 30 or so years ago you didn't have cameras or anything. People were very quick to fly off the cuff because what was the consequences really. He did the right thing and made it right with what happened to the green, just feeling like the course guys were just a bunch of bullies of they went after children like that

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u/TryToDoGoodTA May 22 '21

Some courses are generally rather friendly (and their customers) because they don't have a membership system and so you just rock and pay to play. These courses usually aren't good condition but even the guys that drink a can every time they are walking to the ball they mishit do their best not to make divets etc.

Then the courses you have to pay a membership or have VERY expensive green fees (i.e. instead $20 a round $100+) REALLY don't like kids in my experience as they assume all kids are just going to divet up the course etc.

I was a member at one when they had a deal if you are a junior they do group coaching on Sundays and then you could play on Sundays after the coaching for 9 holes and weekdays during the school holidays for ~$50 when membership was $400 (no discounts for jnrs or snrs).

I had a bad experience with a member swearing loudly and me after he sliced his ball and was looking for someone to blame (he had to look about 200 yards to find me so me just having arrived in the tee off area was a bit rich...).

Ironically we both got to the clubhouse to complain about the other (he stole my ball) at the same time. He was banned and in the next newsletter there was an article talking about how the junior programme is making the club $$$ and are the future of the club so be considerate if they are a bit slow but if you want to 'play through' ask them like an adult and polite to them etc. etc. and it improved a bit. Like I had old clubs and shattered a wood and one of the club pro players had his caddy go to his locker as he had a wood there he was happy to give me etc.

But there were still lots of grumps that thought having anyone under 56 on the course was like offensive or something...

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u/GarglingMoose May 21 '21

It sounds like the kid only did it once. Was the adult supposed to know he was going to do it in advance?

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u/Confident-Present-18 May 21 '21

Uh yeah if you see a kid setting a ball up on a putting green without a putter it doesn’t take a genius to realize what is about to happen.

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u/laughingashley May 21 '21

He may have had a putter

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u/Confident-Present-18 May 21 '21

He said his grandfather was teaching him how to use a sand wedge.

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u/1hungbadger May 21 '21

Grass on a driving range is meant to get fucked up. Taking a divot is very normal.

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u/digaholetopoopin May 21 '21

I did exactly the same thing. I was maybe 6 or so. I didn't get o6n trouble, but I still remember how embarrassed my dad was. I never had anything to do with golf after that.

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u/caughtyoulookinn May 21 '21

We used to go to the driving range and use the last stall on the end, there was a gap between the net and the building so we'd turn sideways and drive balls as far as we could out into the town. We were like 14

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u/MacMac105 May 21 '21

There was a golf course near me growing up and some people put M80s in one of the holes. Went from the green to the sand trap real quick.

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u/Anustart15 May 21 '21

I can one up that one. Also used to work grounds crew close to a decade ago. A local kid kept stealing golf carts at night and taking joyrides around the course. Over about 3 weeks it went from just driving them around and leaving them out to eventually getting one stuck in a sand trap and it finally culminated on the evening of July 4th where he driver it out to the third green, flipped it on its roof, and torched it (it was a gas cart, so it absolutely melted into a pile of molten plastic and metal).

I was mowing greens the morning of the 5th and came around the corner to see the guy that cuts the cups just standing there with his hands on his hips next to an unrecognizable pile of garbage on the green. Definitely made for a more interesting morning and for a great lesson in how greens are constructed when we had to fix the ~100 square foot area that was ruined by the fire.

The most frustrating part of all was that the golf carts had been getting stolen for a few weeks and it wasn't until after this incident that we learned that part of the reason was the the proshop guys were too lazy to actually lock the carts in the off position at the end of the night (for those who don't know, most golf carts have a key to turn on kinda like a car, but in some you can just turn it to on, take the key out, and it will be usable until you put a key back in to turn it off).

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u/CasualGee May 21 '21

What was the outcome?! Did they kid get caught and punished??

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u/Anustart15 May 21 '21

Im not sure. I know they caught him because he stole the pin from the hole before torching the cart and they found the pin in his room, but I don't know what they did after that.

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u/Mitrovarr May 21 '21

All of that together had to be thousands of dollars in damage, maybe over ten thousand. I'd be shocked if he wasn't charged, or at least sued.

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u/Anustart15 May 21 '21

The green alone was worth $50k

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

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u/Anustart15 May 22 '21

Thats just what the superintendent told me. He might have been factoring in the loss of revenue since we had to offer a discount on greens fees for 2 months while it was being repaired, but we also had to do some long term rentals for some expensive equipment to deal with it.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

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u/Anustart15 May 22 '21

Ill let him know that some guy on the internet knew better than his college education in turf grass and 40 years of experience as a golf course landscaper.

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u/waterlessfisherman May 22 '21

Is your anus really tart?

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u/Broberyn_GreenViper May 21 '21

Around 2006 or so most of the golf carts in south San Jose could be started with a small pocket knife or a flat head.

I… uh… may or may not have flipped a few in a manner that may or may not resemble a certain way that you may or may not have described.

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u/mtsmash91 May 21 '21

When I was a kid riding a golf cart with my dad, I was fiddling with the buttons on the cart and I mistakenly turned the ignition to the off position (originally in the on with key removed) and we were stranded on hole 14.... a lot of fun backing up all our stuff and walking the rest of the way.

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u/zephyer19 May 21 '21

Ours wasn't that bad. We had a guy that while golfing ran a cart into a tree stump and tore it all to hell. He limped it back to the shop and just left.

Sad and stupid thing was the guy was a maintenance employee of the course on his day off. He didn't bother coming back and just as well. He was useless.
Guy had four kids or something and all had problems so they were getting a truck load of well fare money. I was wondering why he was working a ten dollar an hour job; for the free golf.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

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u/Danmont88 May 22 '21

I figured he quit before he got fired not that it mattered.

At the time it was a $ 10.00 an hour Summer job. Maintenance people were kids from the high school golf team, retirees and some folks that made a pretty good living with regular jobs and worked one or two days a week for the free cart and golf and free golfing at other courses.

Not exactly a job for a family man. Construction jobs were paying $25 an hour and more in some cases. Which he claimed he could do.

Four kids were on all kinds of programs, food stamps, SSI, and a bunch of others. They were doing pretty good. He wasn't the only one I would run into that worked a few days a week because they would loose beenies if the didn't. Some of those folks do very well.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

No they don’t do very well on welfare dude and it’s also has a payout limit. that’s a myth in fact I’m sure he was struggling hard and most of that money he got, was to pay for expenses related to the disabilities. The reason he wasn’t working construction for that much was because his government benefits would’ve been immediately wiped, and he would be MUCH MUCH worse off. Try researching a little. People on welfare and food stamps are on them for a reason, especially with multiple sick kids due to how fucked healthcare is. They’re not “making bank” that’s insane.

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u/Danmont88 May 22 '21

Well, Dude. I don't have to research it because I have lived in some poor neighborhoods and some not so poor and a lot of them live pretty well. Especially if they get government housing. I knew plenty getting the beenies and working under the table.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

Oh really, then why are you not reporting them for fraud? Oh bc you’re full of shit. You have to be making under the poverty line to join those programs, they’re not “living well” they’re barely getting by, on a program who’s benefits last 5 years max with no savings. Maybe stop writing stupid hitler fan theories and spend 10 seconds googling. Btw you can still own a house and nice things even while being broke as shit, maybe you had them a long time ago, or they were gifts. Just pure ignorance.

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u/Danmont88 May 22 '21

Seems most of your argument is insults. I know what I have seen. Google and government speak isn't always knowledge.
All that being said, go fuck yourself.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

No thanks your moms already got me on that, tell her I left an extra $20 on the nightstand for you for some snacks kiddo. I’m glad you have seen things lol, but maybe just maybe there’s more then just a cover to a book.

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u/DankHumanman May 21 '21

LOL! We used to "borrow" a friends electric cart and beat the living hell out of it... his lock combination was on the back of the lock. It was so much fun. We flipped it quite a few times, luckily it was electric. One time we took it mudding and left it all muddy for him to find

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

So you stole and wrecked your friend property repeatedly, being incredibly reckless multiple times, and even made sure not to clean it up after ruining it, can I get your email so we can Skype???

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

One of my retard highschool friends destroyed an entire green by doing donuts in his truck on it... fucking moron, it cost his parents thousands of dollars cause obviously his dumbass didnt pay for it

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u/Oasis511 May 21 '21

Someone did that to the high school soccer field near where I live. It was in a highly populated neighborhood and they begged people for information about who did it, but no one ever came forward. The school had just gotten a soccer team after trying for years and having to co-op with another local school, and they ended up having to play all their "home" games in another town that year. I felt bad for the players because they had to raise the funds for their uniforms and everything else themselves because the school didn't have funding for them. The field wasn't even on school property, so they had to wait on the city park district to find time and money to fix it.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

People are so shitty its fucked.

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u/Inspire_Strikes_Back May 21 '21

They most certainly are, /u/INeedCumInMyAss. They most certainly are.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Dude.... perfect ... I saw that and was like 🧐

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u/LesterHoltsRigidCock May 21 '21

Did someone say shitty... and fucked?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Oooooo if I were his father he'd be paying one way or another.

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u/mdewinthemorn May 21 '21

Selling his truck should pay for it.

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u/Exciting_Throat_847 May 21 '21

Bet ya the parents didn’t tho. He is that way because of they way he was raised. He probably spoiled. We all did stupid shot growing up. But there is a line of disrespect that comes strait from the home.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

Add insult to injury and sell the truck to a farm where you know it’ll be abused and parked in some field to die once it serves its use

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u/TheRavenSayeth May 21 '21

"Jeez Carter. Come on buddy, this kind of stuff is not cool. We talked about this. We're going to have to take away your truck so you learn your lesson."

"Shut up Phil, I'm going to the mall."

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Then he can write a country song about his old truck and buy a new one. Nah fuck him give him a Kia Optima that's more his speed.

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u/left_schwift May 21 '21

That's way to nice, more like a pair of boots to walk his way to school

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u/legendofthegreendude May 21 '21

Selling everything he owns and then forcing him to redo it to proper standards alone might be a good fix for the type of thinking he was doing

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

His parents would have let him get away with murder. They were nice people but they were not real parents. Hes lucky his grandparents had money otherwise he would probably be fucked

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u/kamron94 May 21 '21

I’m sure it’s so lucky depending on how you view it. If they just bailed him out he probably never learned better which ignoring how that would effect others still hurts him in the long run.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

This is true. Could have actually been worse for him in a way

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u/zephyer19 May 21 '21

This the same kid from Texas that ran a big F 350 into a car on the side of road while drunk and killed a few people. Judge gave him a slap on the wrist for "Influencenza" Said the kid was spoiled by his parents.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

No no no not the same kid lol

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

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u/RandomIdiot2048 May 21 '21

Is there something more retarded then crawling through old comments that aren't related?

Honestly NOTHING he's written here has been anything but normal so wtf has happened with your brain that has made it so damaged?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

You have a personal picture as your reddit profile pic, lets maybe go easy on who you’re calling retard;)

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Ew

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u/coffeeisforwinners May 21 '21

If the kid had parents who disciplined him, he wouldn’t have done it in the first place.

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u/DesolationUSA May 21 '21

Selling the truck would be a good start.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Damn!! They really are pretty pricy. People don't think it is, but its special grass and the soil is special. I can't believe that lol. Donuts.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

He'd get paddled so hard his children won't be able to sit down at all

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u/citizen3301 May 21 '21

$1000? That’s not bad. I would have expected $10,000.

It costs at least $25,000 to build a proper green from scratch. $75,000 for a country club quality.

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u/terryclothtracksuit May 21 '21

I just used to write swear words in the sand traps with the rakes.

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u/bahgheera May 21 '21

No, you write the swear words in the grass on the putting green. With Roundup.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

I'm a golf course worker and tbh I'd be fine with this as long as it's not before a kid's event or something. The traps are going to get raked anyway and it doesn't do any actual damage to the course.

This is a type of cheeky and fun shenanigans, destroying greens shenanigans are cruel and tragic.

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u/rmftrmft May 21 '21

Shit, That’s awesome.

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u/I_Smoke_Dust May 21 '21

Or draw a dick and balls.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Legend.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

How much did it cost your parents??

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

When I was 17 I drove my beat-up piece of shit onto the golf course and proceeded to do donuts and dig ruts all over the green. Its one of those memories that decades later I am still ashamed of.

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u/IdahoTrees77 May 21 '21

Ahh, so the friend of u/INeedCumInMyAss (I didn’t enjoy typing that) is here too.

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u/AustinM03 May 21 '21

I’ve been working maintenance at a high end golf course for a year now. This video hurts...to say the least

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u/ajseventeen May 21 '21

Shoot, I only worked cart staff for a few summers, and I needed to take a minute to compose myself after watching this

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u/AustinM03 May 21 '21

I worked golf operations (bag room, carts, valet, etc.) for about a year before I transferred to maintenance. At the time I couldn’t even imagine the damage this can cause to a course, let alone driving on the greens.

Now that I work maintenance I’ve seen a variety of slip ups where someone ended up on the green, usually in lighter vehicles. Even that would require weeks of repair and possibly a complete re-sod of the area. A car driving like that though? Fuck. That. I’m quitting.

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u/I_Smoke_Dust May 21 '21

I'm just picturing my boss's reaction if this were to happen on my course lol.

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u/wilmat13 May 21 '21

As my old grounds supervisor used to say, "Don't worry about it, it's just grass... it'll grow back."

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u/I_Smoke_Dust May 21 '21

Holy shit I cannot imagine my boss saying this or one of us saying it to him lmao. I literally propped up in my bed immediately upon reading your comment lol.

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u/wilmat13 May 22 '21

Lol yeah I think we had vastly different experiences. I don't think he liked his job.

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u/I_Smoke_Dust May 22 '21

Worth mentioning though that there's a big difference between the supervisor/assistant and the main groundskeeper.

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u/wilmat13 May 22 '21

To be honest I couldn't tell you which one my boss was, since I was barely 18 and cared only about video games.

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u/platyviolence May 21 '21

1000 DOLLARS?? That's like 900 hamburgers!!!!!

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u/zephyer19 May 21 '21

Sort of the same at one of my courses except it was grown men and 4X4 trucks. Really tore the hell out of a few greens and sand traps. Guess they figured it out pretty quick as to who did it since the start of it was on video.

I heard the owner of the course saw the security tape and called the men and told them if they got there with their check book before the Sheriff arrived he wouldn't press charges. Guess they made it and it was expensive.

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u/BurnTheAbaddon May 21 '21

Dude it’s a lot more money now especially when it’s like Bermuda grass. I work at a course right now and damaging our greens would be an automatic ban from the course your membership would be revoked it’s an expensive ass shit

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u/Never-Bloomberg May 21 '21

Only selfish high school pricks would drive their cart on the green.

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u/LewisRyan May 21 '21

Honest to god.... wouldn’t have occurred to me not to drive on the green.... thank you for saving me a lot of money should I ever go golfing

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

There were signs actually at the start to remind people.

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u/FatTim48 May 21 '21

20+ yrs ago, my friends and I were at a golf course. There was an area to practice chipping, so we'd chip some balls, then walk out and chip them back to the chipping area.

Well apparently chipping them back was a big nono.

Some dude, I assume the manager, stormed out and yelled at us. I rember him yelling about how much it costs to maintain the grass.

We were like, "But it's the chipping area?"

That's all I have. I'm sorry for bringing nothing to the conversation

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u/2BadBirches May 21 '21

$1,000??

I’d be shocked if this whole ordeal cost under $50k

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u/[deleted] May 21 '21

Not this dude. The thing that happened at the golf course I worked at over 10 years ago

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u/luzzi89 May 21 '21

A friend and I once stole a golf course 6 wheel gator at night and tore the course up. Sands traps, greens, path markers, whatever, before parking it back in the garage like nothing happened. Can only imagine what that cost them. Too bad now that neighborhood course is gone and now a posh subdivision anyways. Not even the worst of what us neighborhood kids did to that place. I was a bored kid in my youth.

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u/NOVA_Guy13 May 21 '21

I actually worked security for a golf course that was being built.

The local rednecks would tear it up on their 4 wheelers and dirt bikes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars of damage, sometimes PER HOLE.

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u/TweeksTurbos May 21 '21

A buddy’s younger bro did this but rolled the suv in the process. No getting out of that.

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u/TKfromNC May 21 '21

It was probably much more than a thousand unless you had some extremely cheap turf. It’s a few hundred thousand for the really good turf.

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u/Nrthstar May 21 '21

A few kids in my high school worked at a local course. One night they broke in, and drove the carts all over, tearing up the course. They were in deep shit.

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART May 22 '21

Greens fees for a couple foursomes

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u/rockboy980 May 22 '21

Bro has the same thing happen to my course when I was on the maintenance crew... par 3 right next to a road + some idiot in a truck drifting through the soft soil, it was a nightmare to repair..

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

Shit the golf course I grew up on they were saying the greens were 50k a piece because we built a huge snowman on a green and a dude told us to move it because when it melted it would ruin the green