Flip it Flat
Newbie
I just had something like this happen to me a few weeks ago. I'm at a local pitch & putt course that isn't heavily used in a small residential area park with a bunch of houses around it and I'm practicing putting. I had my bag on the ground about 50ft from the basket against a big oak tree and I had a soft Vibram Sole on the ground near it. Now there is a sidewalk 5 feet away from the tree and the bag.
Along comes a group of 9 people all about 20 yrs old(6 guys and 3 girls) looking like total trash. They see the bag and the disc and start kicking the Sole and start throwing it back and forth to each other while one of the girls and a huge guy start looking through my bag. They saw me and didn't care, of course me being half Irish and half German I wasn't about to let them get away with this.
I start walking towards them and asking "What the F*** are you people doing" they look at me and the big dude still continues to rifle through my bag. I stopped being nice and I walked right up to him and said "you have a problem now, your too damn stupid to know when to quit get the F*** out of my bag now." He looked at me as if he was sizing me up and I went directly over to the kid who had my Sole and he could tell that I wasn't to be messed with and tossed it back and immediately yelled at his friend to STOP!!! at which point I was making a beeline right for him again and he has this big old grin on his face. At this point I pull out my phone and snap a picture of him and he asks what are you gonna do with that, I said I'm gonna give it to you so you have a picture of that smile the way it looked before I knocked all you teeth down your throat. With that a person comes out of their garage across the street to confront the big kid who was starting to back up quickly. He told him to get his a** running if you want to keep those teeth. The kid backed off and quickly left while the others apologized for him. I told them all of you are all at fault here as you tacitly allowed it to happen in the first place and I wasn't interested in apologies, all I want is for you guys to never do that again to anyone because you don't know who you could be messing with and your friend better not cross my path again.
The neighbor told me that the kid is a major problem child and the local bully per se and nobody ever confronts him because of his size. Well I did and scared the living hell out of him.
Strangely enough, I'm starting to see much more of this kinda activity/behavior on the courses in the Chicagoland area where punks think they can get away with this. I also am a very nice guy and would allow someone/starnger to look at a disc if they asked but I would pull a disc out and never let them personally go through my bag. I have to know you well if you wanted to look through my bag without permission.
Along comes a group of 9 people all about 20 yrs old(6 guys and 3 girls) looking like total trash. They see the bag and the disc and start kicking the Sole and start throwing it back and forth to each other while one of the girls and a huge guy start looking through my bag. They saw me and didn't care, of course me being half Irish and half German I wasn't about to let them get away with this.
I start walking towards them and asking "What the F*** are you people doing" they look at me and the big dude still continues to rifle through my bag. I stopped being nice and I walked right up to him and said "you have a problem now, your too damn stupid to know when to quit get the F*** out of my bag now." He looked at me as if he was sizing me up and I went directly over to the kid who had my Sole and he could tell that I wasn't to be messed with and tossed it back and immediately yelled at his friend to STOP!!! at which point I was making a beeline right for him again and he has this big old grin on his face. At this point I pull out my phone and snap a picture of him and he asks what are you gonna do with that, I said I'm gonna give it to you so you have a picture of that smile the way it looked before I knocked all you teeth down your throat. With that a person comes out of their garage across the street to confront the big kid who was starting to back up quickly. He told him to get his a** running if you want to keep those teeth. The kid backed off and quickly left while the others apologized for him. I told them all of you are all at fault here as you tacitly allowed it to happen in the first place and I wasn't interested in apologies, all I want is for you guys to never do that again to anyone because you don't know who you could be messing with and your friend better not cross my path again.
The neighbor told me that the kid is a major problem child and the local bully per se and nobody ever confronts him because of his size. Well I did and scared the living hell out of him.
Strangely enough, I'm starting to see much more of this kinda activity/behavior on the courses in the Chicagoland area where punks think they can get away with this. I also am a very nice guy and would allow someone/starnger to look at a disc if they asked but I would pull a disc out and never let them personally go through my bag. I have to know you well if you wanted to look through my bag without permission.
