WTF is right. New golf trend of running over your friends.

[Valleygolfer]

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/07/golfers-everywhere-have-discovered-the-stupidest-new-trend-ever

Seriously how can you not end up hurting someone.

 

 

[chilepepper]

Incredibly dumb!

[JonMA1]

You know what else is hilarious? Beating your "friend" to within an inch of his life after you get out of the hospital.

(BTW, I call BS on not even flinching when a golf cart is three feet away from you)

[Valleygolfer]

1 minute ago, JonMA1 said:

You know what else is hilarious? Beating your "friend" to within an inch of his life after you get out of the hospital.

(BTW, I call BS on not even flinching when a golf cart is three feet away from you)

That's where I don't call bs. People are always driving after you hit and sometimes while you hit. Thinking they are going to run you over never crosses my mind.

[JonMA1]

2 minutes ago, Valleygolfer said:

That's where I don't call bs. People are always driving after you hit and sometimes while you hit. Thinking they are going to run you over never crosses my mind.

I've never had a partner drive his cart to within 10 feet of me - let alone right at me - while I'm taking my shot. I can understand not being able to get out of the way, but I can't imagine anyone not noticing the sound getting dangerously close and reacting just before impact.

[dennyjones]

It would be the last time I played golf with them and I'd tell them so after I beat the crap out of him.   That is so not funny..

[David in FL]

Those aren't "golfers"...

 

[jamo]

Seems like a "trend" in the way the local news uses the word. 

[colin007]

IB4 someone says something about "real" golfers would never take a cart....

But seriously, that's shocking video. Reprehensible, and grounds for terminating a "friendship".

[chspeed]

49 minutes ago, colin007 said:

IB4 someone says something about "real" golfers would never take a cart....

But seriously, that's shocking video. Reprehensible, and grounds for terminating a "friendship".

Terminating a friendship? Assuming this is real, which it may not be, this is grounds for police action and a lawsuit.

[Shindig]

I doubt it's literally a trend.  However, at the last So Cal TST outing, someone (not someone from the outing) did try to drive over the golf bag of one of us when we were returning the carts.

[iacas]

1 hour ago, JonMA1 said:

(BTW, I call BS on not even flinching when a golf cart is three feet away from you)

Huh? Seriously?

[Hardspoon]

14 minutes ago, Shindig said:

I doubt it's literally a trend.  However, at the last So Cal TST outing, someone (not someone from the outing) did try to drive over the golf bag of one of us when we were returning the carts.

It's a "trend" in the sense that there have been several videos of similar shenanigans on Twitter recently...

There was a commercial with something similar almost two years ago:

http://www.golfdigest.com/story/watch-a-golfer-get-run-over-by-a-cart-in-what-might-be-the-craziest-golf-commercial-ever

[CarlSpackler]

Juvenile. Dangerous. Idiotic.

[krupa]

I've seen a couple of these on reddit (can't find the links now).  The ones I saw were definitely staged; the guy getting hit was clearly waiting for it -- he looked back while in his stance and jumped up at the last second so he went up the wind screen instead of just getting plowed over.

People are stupid and getting worse as time goes on.

Edited July 10, 2017 by krupa

[Hardspoon]

9 minutes ago, krupa said:

People are stupid

True.

9 minutes ago, krupa said:

and getting worse as time goes on.

Completely, totally false.

Percy Shelley, one of the greatest Romantic poets of all time, was known as "Mad Shelley", because:

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Shelley possessed a keen interest in science at Eton, which he would often apply to cause a surprising amount of mischief for a boy considered to be so sensible. Shelley would often use a frictional electric machine to charge the door handle of his room, much to the amusement of his friends. His friends were particularly amused when his gentlemanly tutor, Mr Bethell, in attempting to enter his room, was alarmed at the noise of the electric shocks, despite Shelley's dutiful protestations.  His mischievous side was again demonstrated by "his last bit of naughtiness at school", which was to blow up a tree on Eton's South Meadow with gunpowder.

This was in 1804.

Edited July 10, 2017 by Hardspoon

[nevets88]

Jackass IRL

[krupa]

24 minutes ago, Hardspoon said:

True.

Completely, totally false.

Percy Shelley, one of the greatest Romantic poets of all time, was known as "Mad Shelley", because:

This was in 1804.

I see your exploding tree and raise you the kid who was shot and killed while trying to get famous on YouTube  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/us/shooting-youtube-stunt-minnesota.html

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 Ms. Perez, 19, shot at a thick book that Mr. Ruiz, 22, was holding, apparently believing that the bullet would not make it through the volume.

And the kid who thought it'd be fun* to be a human surfboard down a flight of steps (click at own risk).  I didn't embed the actual animated GIF because it doesn't end well for the kid.  It looks like he's having trouble breathing after having someone's foot on the back of his neck on the way down.

https://gfycat.com/BarePlayfulAfricanbushviper

* I guess that was the reasoning; I'm sure copious amounts of alcohol were involved in the decision-making process.