Freebie stories?

[Buiscutboy]

Anyone have any interesting freebie stories? Though I'm not really sure this counts as interesting...

So I was at my home course, showed up at the first tee pad at the same time as someone else, so we played together. I was particularly OATy that day, and was turning everything over. At the end of the round, he says, "You really need to get a good forehand disc" and went and dug around in his trunk. He comes back with a max weight Opto XXX, gives it to me, gets in his car, and drives off.

I still haven't thrown it.

 

[discerdoo]

Would be more interesting if it was Climo that gave it to you. But he woulda given you a Firebird instead.

 

[reezyF]

All my discs are stamped with my PE stamp on the underside which makes me feel special and makes my discs easy to spot.
About a year ago I was leaving the course and passed very close to a disc that had just been thrown by someone else and noticed it was the same disc that I had lost not too long before, flipped it over and there was my stamp (and name & number). Dude walks up, I tell him hey this was my disc and I really liked it before I lost it, offered to give him 5$ for finding it. He replies that its now his favorite disc of his small bag, and he offered me 5$ to keep the disc.
Feeling a little bad for him, and knowing I had a full bag of 20+ discs including a replacement of the disc in question- I let him keep it, no $ requested.

Unfortunately Ive unintentionally given lots of freebies away far more times by losing discs in obvious places :doh:

 

[Armus Patheticus]

I've never been given a disc but have given away several hundred. All of my tournament winnings and unmarked/unclaimed finds are given to other tournament players or park gawkers or beginners or forum users or people who express an interest in any disc I happen to have.

 

[tallenAZ]

Once I found an Instinct and thought it was the guy several holes in front of me. I ran through all the holes and sure enough he was just realizing he lost it. Fast forward a month or two and I see him again near hole 1. We started talking and I mentioned to him I wanted to fill a hole in my bag (I'm new to DG) for a high speed driver to forehand. He was kind enough to let try out some of his so I'd get an idea of what I'd want. I threw them in an open field and decided what I was going to get. I thanked him and handed his discs back. He then went into his trunk and gave me a 167g DDx and said here try this backhand, and you can keep it.

 

[dreadlock86]

my favorite stories are when i get a call about one of my lost discs and the person found it at a course where i've never been. i've had that happen a few times. many times i've gotten a call and they found it at a course that i've been to but it's not where i lost that particular disc.

 

[ray1970]

my favorite stories are when i get a call about one of my lost discs and the person found it at a course where i've never been. i've had that happen a few times. many times i've gotten a call and they found it at a course that i've been to but it's not where i lost that particular disc.

Or when you get a call about a disc you haven't seen in years and the guy found it on a course in Iowa and you've never been to Iowa.

 

[ohtobediscing]

I called a guy whose Star Spider I found at Ann Mo in Boise. He'd lost it at Dela 2 weeks before, and said he'd never been out of the SW U.S.
Oh, I've gotten freebies for volunteering, and a few for finding treasured discs or helping someone out of a jam. But like AP, I've given away hundreds, from errant desire purchases and un-inked finds.

 

[Moose33]

I have a lot of friends that I give discs to and to reciprocate they will give me things they can't throw well. If it's too OS, high speed or they just don't care for it I get some of them. Often with the knowledge that if I don't throw it I'll give it to someone who will, or that the sale of it will help pay for my next tournament.

 

[CaptainAnhyzer]

Several years back we installed a rock solid lost & found box @JPark and I took over handling all the discs that were put in.
A few years back some anonymous player dropped $20 in the box with a note thanking me for all the work I do for the course and local disc golf.

 

[Flick Maniac]

I have a whopper of a story...

--but its going to cost you. I dont believe in freebie stories.

 

[BrotherDave]

I found a guy's Diamond once and called him. He told me to keep it since he lived several states away. I had no use for a Diamond so I gave it to a 60+ yo guy I disc golf with out of pity sometimes. He loved it and thanks me for giving it to him all the time. But I can't stand that guy anymore though and refuse to play with him now. :|

 

[Twmccoy]

I was wading in the lake at one of the local courses. A guy was playing and told me he had just lost a star Destroyer, and showed me where to look. I found it and gave it back. Later, I found another disc of his on a different hole. For my efforts he gave me a champion glow Shryke.

I personally have given away tons of discs I don't throw anymore. If someone can use them and actually wants them, I have no problem giving some discs away.

 

[Dcinmd]

My favorite freebie story was between round during a weekday tournament. I watch the Chuckster reach into a box and walk over to a mother on a playground with her 4 year old son and handed them a new putter.

It made me smile.

 

[ThrowBot]

I got a freebie F2 disc with my recent order from the Innova Factory Store. It turned out to be a clear blue champ 175g Daedalus, so ultimately it was a freebie for my friend who likes those silly things.

 

[dreadlock86]

I found a guy's Diamond once and called him. He told me to keep it since he lived several states away. I had no use for a Diamond so I gave it to a 60+ yo guy I disc golf with out of pity sometimes. He loved it and thanks me for giving it to him all the time. But I can't stand that guy anymore though and refuse to play with him now. :|

you found out he was Keegan's dad?

 

[Silboh]

Nothing special but here is my story :
I am french. 18 months ago I went to Finland to visit a friend. We walked on a parc and I saw a strange basket. I asked him what was this thing. He told me about disc golf and it looked great. The last day I asked to try disc golf with him. I loved it.
6 months ago I started a disc golf club in my town where nobody ever heard of disc golf. In two weeks, I will have 18 baskets to create a 18 hole courses, 2km from my house.
Next summer, I will go back to Finland, to assist to the European Open with my friend !

 

[BillFleming]

One day before league play, I found a disc and texted the number on it. Apparently, the owner lost it somewhere else and it made its way to where I was playing. I'm in Arizona, he's in Florida....he told me to keep it. So I added a Star Valkyrie to my bag. A few weeks later, I was practicing in the field before league play and one of the guys from my club suggested I try his Opto River. I liked it and threw it well...he told me to keep it. Later he mentioned to our group that he was looking for a Star Valkyrie (I hadn't played the one I got or told anyone about it)....so...that became his.

I'm part of a great group of folks (Prescott Disc Golf Club) and there's a lot of 'have this disc - it might work for you'.

This wouldn't happen in ball golf...that's for sure.

 

[etdefender19]

One day before league play, I found a disc and texted the number on it. Apparently, the owner lost it somewhere else and it made its way to where I was playing. I'm in Arizona, he's in Florida....he told me to keep it. So I added a Star Valkyrie to my bag. A few weeks later, I was practicing in the field before league play and one of the guys from my club suggested I try his Opto River. I liked it and threw it well...he told me to keep it. Later he mentioned to our group that he was looking for a Star Valkyrie (I hadn't played the one I got or told anyone about it)....so...that became his.

I'm part of a great group of folks (Prescott Disc Golf Club) and there's a lot of 'have this disc - it might work for you'.

This wouldn't happen in ball golf...that's for sure.

I got married in Prescott once.

*Too lazy to search for/copy&paste Joe Piscopo Johnny Dangerously meme*

 

[Flick Maniac]

Nothing special but here is my story :
I am french. 18 months ago I went to Finland to visit a friend. We walked on a parc and I saw a strange basket. I asked him what was this thing. He told me about disc golf and it looked great. The last day I asked to try disc golf with him. I loved it.
6 months ago I started a disc golf club in my town where nobody ever heard of disc golf. In two weeks, I will have 18 baskets to create a 18 hole courses, 2km from my house.
Next summer, I will go back to Finland, to assist to the European Open with my friend !

Cool story bro

Did the city just say "sounds fun, a sport nobody ever heard of, here's money"? Or where did the baskets/land/labor come from?