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

[JonMA1]

3 hours ago, iacas said:

Huh? Seriously?

For every drunk a$$hole who can dream up an "epic" video, there's an idiot friend who will go along with it.

Believe what you want, man.

[iacas]

4 minutes ago, JonMA1 said:

For every drunk a$$hole who can dream up an "epic" video, there's an idiot friend who will go along with it.

Believe what you want, man.

I'm not willing to think that all of these videos represent something completely staged and planned by all participants.

[JonMA1]

9 minutes ago, iacas said:

I'm not willing to think that all of these videos represent something completely staged and planned by all participants.

Certainly, some people are pricks enough to hurt unknowing victims just for laughs. Throw in a bit more bad judgement and the injuries become serious. If that's what happened in any of these, it's very sad the video would get posted and I hope someone went to jail.

[Ernest Jones]

The only thing dumber than running over your buddy with a golf cart is letting your buddy run over you with a golf cart. 

[Gator Hazard]

19 minutes ago, Ernest Jones said:

The only thing dumber than running over your buddy with a golf cart is letting your buddy run over you with a golf cart. 

It looks staged to me. I wonder if maybe they told him they were going to do something else to get him to participate and then they ran his dumb ass over. Is he even wearing shoes?

[onthehunt526]

Now there's assault with a deadly weapon.

[iacas]

6 hours ago, Gator Hazard said:

It looks staged to me. I wonder if maybe they told him they were going to do something else to get him to participate and then they ran his dumb ass over. Is he even wearing shoes?

Him? It?

There are several.

[Papa Steve 55]

I always ask myself, if its not a set up. why were they filming beforehand?

[Ernest Jones]

45 minutes ago, Papa Steve 55 said:

I always ask myself, if its not a set up. why were they filming beforehand?

Well, presumedly, everyone but the victim was in on it. 

[Gator Hazard]

2 hours ago, iacas said:

Him? It?

There are several.

Yes, was mentioning the video that was imbedded in the post. 

[Wally Fairway]

9 hours ago, JonMA1 said:

For every drunk a$$hole who can dream up an "epic" video, there's an idiot friend who will go along with it.

Believe what you want, man.

Agree - the people who grew up watching Jackass are now wanting their own videos

[iacas]

19 minutes ago, Gator Hazard said:

Yes, was mentioning the video that was imbedded in the post. 

Click the link. There are many.

[DeadMan]

This gives me an idea for the Newport Cup...

[ScouseJohnny]

These have to be bogus. I mean, I sincerely hope they're bogus.

Getting run over by a golf cart at 15mph isn't going to be dramatically different to being run over by, say, a Mini at 15mph. The injuries would be horrendous.

If this nonsense is a 2017 phenomenon, then it'll take a while to get into the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) data. But if you look at the 2016 data, there were 353 instances of golf cart related injuries, treated by ERs in hospitals that report to NEISS, where the injuries were serious enough to be reported.

A few things jump out from the data:

The injuries, as reported, are often very serious.

Broadly speaking, the age groups most represented in the data are young people (25 years of age and younger), and seniors (65+, but more frequently people in that group are aged in their 70s and 80s).

The accidents are very rarely recorded as direct impacts with a moving golf cart. Overwhelmingly, they are instances of falling out of (and frequently off) a moving golf cart, golf carts tipping over at excessive speeds, injuries sustained while the cart is in motion (you know those passengers who stick their legs out of the cart....)

If you do get hit full-on by a golf art, the data tends to look a lot like this:

CPSC Case #: 160351503	Treatment Date: 03/21/2016	PSU: 63	Weight: 103.2251	Stratum: M
Age: 77 - 77 YEARS	Sex: 1 - MALE	Race: 0 - N.S.	Race Other:
Diagnosis: 62 - INTER ORGAN INJURY		Diag Other:
Body Part: 75 - HEAD
Disposition: 4 - TREATED & ADMITTED FOR HOSPITALIZATION, HOSPITALIZED
Location: 9 - SPORTS OR RECREATION PLACE
Products: 1213 - GOLF CARTS
Narrative: 77YOM ON THE GOLF COURSE AND HIT BY A GOLF CART SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE

Edited July 10, 2017 by ScouseJohnny

[Groucho Valentine]

Thats mildly amusing...

[nevets88]

I dunno if this speaks to the current gestalt of things, but I'm kind of surprised this wasn't a thing earlier. Or maybe I'm not privy to secret frat videos where this was done 10 years ago.

[Valleygolfer]

1 hour ago, ScouseJohnny said:

These have to be bogus. I mean, I sincerely hope they're bogus.

Getting run over by a golf cart at 15mph isn't going to be dramatically different to being run over by, say, a Mini at 15mph. The injuries would be horrendous.

If this nonsense is a 2017 phenomenon, then it'll take a while to get into the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) data. But if you look at the 2016 data, there were 353 instances of golf cart related injuries, treated by ERs in hospitals that report to NEISS, where the injuries were serious enough to be reported.

A few things jump out from the data:

The injuries, as reported, are often very serious.

Broadly speaking, the age groups most represented in the data are young people (25 years of age and younger), and seniors (65+, but more frequently people in that group are aged in their 70s and 80s).

The accidents are very rarely recorded as direct impacts with a moving golf cart. Overwhelmingly, they are instances of falling out of (and frequently off) a moving golf cart, golf carts tipping over at excessive speeds, injuries sustained while the cart is in motion (you know those passengers who stick their legs out of the cart....)

If you do get hit full-on by a golf art, the data tends to look a lot like this:

CPSC Case #: 160351503	Treatment Date: 03/21/2016	PSU: 63	Weight: 103.2251	Stratum: M
Age: 77 - 77 YEARS	Sex: 1 - MALE	Race: 0 - N.S.	Race Other:
Diagnosis: 62 - INTER ORGAN INJURY		Diag Other:
Body Part: 75 - HEAD
Disposition: 4 - TREATED & ADMITTED FOR HOSPITALIZATION, HOSPITALIZED
Location: 9 - SPORTS OR RECREATION PLACE
Products: 1213 - GOLF CARTS
Narrative: 77YOM ON THE GOLF COURSE AND HIT BY A GOLF CART SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE

The old guys were already doing it... Talk about non original ideas....

[Buckeyebowman]

On 7/9/2017 at 8:30 PM, krupa said:

 

People are stupid and getting worse as time goes on.

Are we not men? We are Devo!