whats the craziest thing you've done to get a disc

[Dr.feelgood]

Just like the title says. I'd like to hear some interesting stories.

 

[b-mart]

I want to troll here so badly and say that I handed money to someone, but I have one that's a tiny bit crazier. Still hardly worth sharing, but I'm bored.

In January I griplocked a Surge so bad that it went at about a 90 degree angle to the teepad and landed about 10' from the shore of the lake. I don't have a golden retriever and it was 7:45 am. I was playing a quick round before work, and knew that the disc that was clearly visible would be long gone by the time I was able to come back. So I waded in to the icy water. In my waterproof work shoes. That I needed for work. The end.

Now somebody please top that.

 

[nolangherity]

threw my beat neutron vector in a seasonal pond on the faaaaar end of a course. walked 10 minutes to my car and drove 10 minutes to the nearest gas station. bought a pack of those heavy duty black garbage bags and duct tape and drove back. walked back out to the pond and fashioned some double layer garbage bag waders and trudged in to retrieve my disc. was maybe 45 degrees that day, water probably very cold. still throwing that vector a dozen times each round, you can pry that thing out of my cold dead power grip.

 

[TalbotTrojan]

In the middle of a PDGA sanctioned tournament round I threw a disc into the water. It was floating 25' from the shore. I took off my shoes, jumped in and got my disc. Played the rest of the round with soggy shorts and shirt, but I had my disc. I think that is my best story, but there are so many of them it is hard to remember them all.

 

[tampora]

I won a tourney in advanced and got a disc. For folks who throw with me, that's pretty crazy.

 

[ZAMson]

Volunteered as spotter for '06 World Doubles for the players pack discs (2 discs per weekend for 2 weekends pro/am) .... Resulted in my job at Millennium

Entered ION logo contest (prize: Ions) .... Resulted in my job at MVP

my career is built on getting a free couple-few discs

 

[B3NDER]

I threw my first ever owned/bought disc (pre-kenny star wraith, now with a brainwave dye) into a flooded and DAMN cold creek/river basically at Spinski's private DG course at apdrvya and I's only league round (or round in general there) on I believe hole 3. It was already freezing out but there was no way I was leaving my bread and butter behind. Walked around in some ice cold, rapidly moving water with my hands a nice shade of purple and my boots FILLED with water. Found the wraith on my "I give the f@#k up before i die" walk out of the pond as I was tripping over it.

Man that day would have sucked otherwise. :\ :doh:

 

[scarpfish]

Had a favorite disc stuck on the roof of this building in a neighboring town...

So I went to the local Wal-Mart and spent $36 on a three step Cosco ladder stool to give me the extra height to reach it, to save a $15 disc. I figured that I could use the stool for other things and it did come in handy on getting other discs out of trees or getting me over fences. I even let my nephew and his newlywed wife borrow it to paint their apartment.

One day just over a year ago, I had a frustrating time trying to reach another disc high in an evergreen tree on the last hole. Even with the ladder it was unreachable, so I looked for the only projectile like thing I could find, an empty Dasani bottle, filled it with small gravel, climbed the ladder, and after about 20 attempts, finally knocked it out. I was so exhausted attempting to retrieve the disc (worth about $11) that I put the disc in my bag, threw the bag in my trunk and drove home...

...and forgot the damned ladder. By the time I discovered that I had forgotten it, and drove back down to the course, of course it was long gone.
:wall:

I clearly spent a dollar to save a quarter there.

 

[Mulligan McGee]

Two years ago I was tossing around a few discs at work on my lunch break. Accidentally throw my fr orion ls into a tree. I didn't think it was a big deal until I walked up to the tree and found that it was a twisted giant covered in 3in thorns. My disc had landed where the three main sprires of the tree twisted together and was barely visible. After several attempts to throw my water bottle at the disc failed to come close to even touching it I decided to climb. Did I mentio the spikes? Turns out they weren't just on the branches, but the trunk as well. Somethimg I found out when one peirced my shoe right between my toes. I came away covered in scratches, all of which became infected. I had to wait till after my shift was over to get another attempt at freeing my disc, but it was too dark forcing me to leave it there over night. The next morning I came back with five dowels and a role of duct tape. I taped the dowels together and spent 15 minutes threading them through tree to poke my disc. The disc got stuck twice on its way, but finally it was mine again.

 

[Stankyjahnke]

Crawled across an inch of ice on a pond fell threw on my way back.

 

[BraveThrower43]

I retrieved tons of discs from the lake at Luther Britt Park when I was in College but one time topped them all. Hole 13 I threw my teebird out far enough that I could no longer touch the bottom. I could still see it so I swam out to where it was and spent the next 10 min diving down and trying to grab the disc. Finally got it.

Another one on hole 12 Long at Nevin. Threw the same teebird into a free and climbed to the very top of a Cedar in order to get it back. I'm a big guy and I was so far up it's a wonder I didn't come crashing down.

 

[MrGlass01]

Tossed mine over the fence at the zoo. Went to the fence line and saw there was no option of climbing. I went to the front desk and explained where my disc was. They sent someone over there after it. About ten minutes later a guy found my disc and tossed it over the fence. Turns out it was the lions and big cats hospital. My disc slid under another fence and was chilling by a lion waiting to get his teeth cleaned.

 

[PhillyMatt]

I've climbed a few trees I had no business climbing, that's for sure.

 

[charris414]

I've got a true winner here ...

First round at Worlds last year in Charlotte, my pool started at Robert L. Smith. Nerves were fine during warmup, but as stepped onto the tee for my first shot, my heart started racing. Took a double bogey on 1, a bogey on 2, and doinked a birdie putt on 3. Waiting on hole 4's tee in the blazing sun and ridiculous humidity, I finally calmed down. But when I threw my 4-year old Z buzzz (which I released cleanly), it turned slightly and ended up in the creek bed, about six feet down from the fairway edge.

Fortunately it was on the edge, and I was able to shimmy down a log to get it, and hand it up to one of the guys I was playing with.

Unfortunately, I was unable to shimmy back up the log, and nearly flipped over into the creek. I regained my balance, committed to putting my feet down in the mud, and grabbed the hand of the guy I handed the disc to so he could pull me up. When he asked me what the disc was, and I said a 4-year old bar-stamped Z-buzzz that is just "perfect," he said he'd have done the same thing.

At the next tee, I took off my shoes and wrung out my socks. The guys on the card were great, and teased me by saying what else could go wrong. The rest of the round was uneventful, made some bogeys, some good pars, some good birdies.

 

[5QU166Y]

I threw my favorite Buzzz into the pond at Reedy Creek this past winter, and since it was my favorite Buzzz, I decided the most logical thing to do was to strip down to my underwear and do some ice-cold wading. I searched for 30 minutes in the middle of a busy park in my underwear before my friend said I should get out because my legs were purple. I didn't get the Buzzz.

However, I was determined to get my favorite disc. I went back a couple weeks later with swimming trunks and waded for 45 minutes before finally getting my treasured Buzzz back.

 

[Eco81]

Threw a yellow gold line river into the middle of a chest deep river. Stripped down to my under armor stretch pants waded out to the middle of this river picked up the disc with my toes and then realized the disc was not mine and someone else's. my disc was not found

 

[CaptainAnhyzer]

Threw a Champion Glow XD in the swamp.
Poked around with a stick to no avail so I marked the spot and went to Walmart & bought knee high rubber boots and returned the next day with a rake.

Got it back.

Pic of said swamp.

 

[aPfaff]

I played a pre-USADGC round with this guy from Iowa I believe. He got his disc stuck in a tree on 10 (threw early). Must have climbed 25 ft. hanging onto vines for support.

 

[waddleman]

I think I might have a winner.

I was playing Grand Woods in East Lansing, nice lake that 3 holes wrap around in the middle holes. Was throwing with my buddy who I just let throw out of my bag (He was rather upset as he had hucked one of them into the lake earlier and the last time we came out. I gave zero ****s as I was loaning him DX stuff I never threw anymore anyhow, but he was bothered by it.)

I step up to throw, tossing my Xcal to basically go over water a bit then meathook back to dodge the trees in front of the pin. I slip off the teepad and turn over my sidarm REAL bad, thing sails out into the lake. Favorite disc, I'm just standing there like "Whelp"

Meanwhile, my buddy immediately just takes off full on sprinting, tears off his sweatshirt and t-shirt and as I'm watching dumbstruck just dives in. Not like, walks out and goes into the water, just sprints up to the water and goes full on dive. Keep in mind this is LATE november, it was probably around 40 degrees out so the water was FREEZING.

He swims out, grabs my Xcal (that was managing to float I realized), and comes on back shaking so much I just gave him everything but my undershirt to keep him from freezing. Best bro saved my favorite disc like a champ.

 

[agentdozzer]

I once raked a snow covered fairway, for over two houra finally found one of my teebirds, that has since been lost again. I am at a point now where i throw all stock disc and have backups for alot of them so I dont do anything crazy any more. Unless i loose my 3x jk avair that would prob be a weeks long none stop search.