F.Luke
Double Eagle Member
Spectacular.*
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Someone else who learned to play at Riverside! Used to be there pretty much every day from May-September in high school.I will throw another story out, this time a more innocent incident.
I was playing Riverside in Saint Cloud, the course that I learned to play this sport. It was a mid-afternoon spring day, and for better or worse, Riverside is a multi-use park despite it being a heavily played course. That means a lot of walkers and people being oblivious of discs flying everywhere.
The course is right off the banks of the Mississippi River. It is on high enough ground where it is not an issue on 16 of 18 holes, but it can be mildly scenic. That means there is a dirt path that many people use to walk through the park and look out on the river.
The particular hole I was playing was about 260 feet, crosses over this dirt path and the basket is nestled between two mature trees and a light pole. Not a difficult shot.
An elderly couple was walking toward me on this path, so I paused throwing. There was no one behind me for several holes, so I was taking a few practice drives. I waited on the tee despite two of my discs already sitting near the basket. The elderly woman, and because this story ends well I have no ill feelings toward her, picked up my disc that happened to be laying near the path and the basket and threw it into the more central part of the course. They could see me, and the husband knew I had seen the whole thing.
As they walked closer to me, she says, "isn't it wonderful that the park department leaves all these frisbees around so everyone can play?" The husband knew better and gave me one of those apologetic shaking of the head in shame nods. All I could do was smile, and I decided to not throw any more drives on this hole. I walked off to go after my disc. It was my beloved dyed Star San Marino Roc that has two aces on it. I found it easily, so no harm no foul.
My reaction would be wait for them to throw and simply walk off with as much of their stuff as you can, then go toss it in a toilet and simply deny everything.
Spectacular.*
I have never had something like this happen at larger courses in the area, like Idlewild, Lincoln Ridge, and Mt. Airy. But the course it happened on, Woodland Mound, is more of a family tossing cheap frisbees to play place since the holes are short and the pars are ridiculously easy.
Never happened to me but Sisyphus had a random dog grab one of his discs and take off with it at Idlewild a few years ago.
You mean you don't pack heat out on the course?
Had it happen once. Guy tried to run off with my custom dyed buzzz. Could literally see it in his bag, because of the green and pink dye. There were four of them, only one of me. It was only hole 5, for them. I was on three. I obviously always carry a gun, but I didn't think it was worth it to pull it here.
Called a few buddies, ones that don't even play disc golf. When they got to 18 and came back to the parking lot, we were there, and I outnumbered them this time. They gave the disc back at that point, we all had a laugh. Then we beat them up pretty bad and threw I threw all of their discs in random directions.
Not sure if a $13 piece of plastic is worth taking a gun out...
Not sure if a $13 piece of plastic is worth taking a gun out and/or beating someone up, but that's just me.
Just had somebody pick up my 2017 Big Jerm thunderbird from the fairway of a hole next to their tee and walk off and deny that they took it(This course is small and has a lot of tees right next to holes). Has anybody had problems like this too? I'm pretty bummed out about it.