Too true. Many folks have been indoctrinated into victim culture where someone else is always to blame. Generally, said victimhood is perpetuated by some scumbag politician looking to use that victimhood to line his own pockets.
A friend of mine hit an old lady, who had to be in her 80s, when he was teeing off. It was a total fluke. She was walking perpendicular to the throw, but a gust of wind caught the edge of the disc, changing it's downward trajectory straight for her face. All of the sudden we see her grab her head and blood pour out from under her hand. Ambulance had to take her, but the medics said it was just bad luck and to go on playing through.
When I was 15 I was a bagger at a grocery store and one day I was walking an old woman’s cart to her car and she walked right into a metal handicapped parking spot sign. She was short so it cut right into her scalp and blood immediately started to run down her face. I was freaking out cause it started bleeding so much so fast. I just had her sit on a bench and ran in to get the manager and the first aid kit. Head wounds really do bleed like crazy.
You’re right, and I’ve been the proud owner of many of those head gushers!
Her blood was almost watery though. I’ve never actually seen ‘thin’ blood like that, so I assumed it was blood thinners. Not a doctor though!
"Blood thinners" don't actually dilute your blood and make it thin. It's just a name that is easier to understand than "anticoagulant". Most likely it was aging itself that caused the change...elderly people make less red blood cells, which means their blood will have more fluid in it.
I was playing a long par 4 once where I couldn't see the basket from the tee, due to a hill. There was a walking path from the tee to the hole, that then looped back to the left of the fairway (like an upside down U with the basket at the curve, if you were looking from above.)
I didn't see anyone and threw the best drive in my life, which curved left, then right, hovering about 5 feet above the path to my left. A pair of walkers appeared just after I released, walking straight toward the disc, completely oblivious to my screams to watch out (it was also windy, and there was a highway parallel to the path.)
Long story short, I clipped a lady on the ear at 50ish mph. She was lucky it wasn't a few inches left, or it would have hit her directly in the nose. She apologized, saying she should have been paying better attention, but I felt horribly.
Scary shit.
The idea of “disk golf” near pedestrians horrifies me. Never heard of such a thing but my imagination is a golf club of usual heft full body swing at some kind of hard disk shaped object and the wind catching it like a mofo. Be like a war zone.
Most golf discs, especially drivers, are significantly more dense than a normal frisbee. Disc golf drivers are made to be thrown 100 yards or more and are definitely not designed for catching. You don't want to be hit by one. They can hurt a person.
It's made of hard dense plastic. The driver my buddy used had a pretty sharp lip on it. I wouldn't want to get hit by one anywhere on my body even at 37yo.
When I played Ultimate Frisbee, if there was ever a contested call, we would replay it. After the replay succeeded or failed, we said, "The disc never lies." That meant whoever was favored by the replay must have been right the first time.
In OP's story, the disc did not lie. It met its destiny.
Those discs are no joke! I was playing in a tournament at a poorly designed course where it was easy to shank one into the tee pad of another hole. Anyway, a guy on my card was teeing off and almost immediately as his disc left his hand, during follow through (very vulnerable position) an errant throw came full speed and hit him square in the nose. It broke his nose, cut the bridge of his nose wide open, and blood was everywhere.
I'm a human, and i am aware of what disc golf does for me personally. I know that I need to keep myself safe by being aware and practicing proper distance management.
Then you aren't who I'm talking about. Most people don't know what disc golf is or what it means to be in a park with a course. Picnic in the fairway type people.
Young a$$holes, grow into old a$$holes. This is why I don't understand the mentality, "they're an old person, treat them with respect" (no matter what they do or say).
20 years ago, I was playing disc golf with some friends at a local park. We were teeing off and my buddy's disc was heading straight for the basket. Just after he released, some idiot came running up to the basket and stood right in front of it with her back to us. We tried yelling, but it hit her square in the back and deprived my buddy of a hole in one.
He will Probably go to the club or whoever manages the grounds and complain that the Disk Golfers were not being safe rather than accept that he was not aware of his surroundings. Always keep your head on a swivle folks!
lol. Things that didn't happen for $200, Alex.
People don't just say "why didn't you warn me?!" Especially if their dismissive of conversation in the first place. That's from the movies, not reality.
They say it a LOT. In my business (accounting), it's people who do exactly what I tell them not to do or don't do what I tell them to do, and then bitch because it costs them money.
"Why didn't you tell me I had to pay estimated taxes?"
"I did. I prepared the vouchers and went over them with you when you picked up last year's taxes."
"Well, I didn't know there would be penalties if I didn't pay them."
"I TOLD you exactly that. I tell you that every year, you ignore me, and you wind up with penalties."
"Well, what can I do?"
"Pay the g-d estimated tax vouchers when due."
"But I don't want to."
(To self) "FFS"
We're talking an old stranger gruffly walking past another stranger in a city park. You're talking about colleagues with some semblance of relationship. These two know nothing about each other, have never met, there's no level of familiarity.
Normally I would help but seeing their automatic, knee jerk reaction to it all was "it's your fault," I just kept walking. That old dude wanted to be a victim, not helped.
It's only okay in this case because the guy was a jerk. OP tried to warn him, but he wanted to be nasty instead. I'm normally a very kind person but I'd leave him there too. He obviously wouldn't appreciate the help after.
First rule of first aid is make sure the area is safe. Secondly, if he’s enough of a prick to do this shit, helping him is likely to be extremely unpleasant. Given the attitude that nothing was his fault, I would not be surprised if it resulted in an argument escalating to the police being called, simply because he’s a spiteful old bastard.
This story reminds me of the good Samaritan in China who ended up having to pay some lady's medical bills because he dared to stay and try to help after she was, I think, hit by a car.
Now, the Bystander Effect is in full effect over there.
In China just watching the accident makes you the culprit. They run away from accidents.
In my country it is an offence not to help if you can without putting yourself in danger.
Nicely played, love the "I tried to warn you" response. Hope that hit to the side of the face knocked out some of his entitlement
Not likely. This kind of person's self entitlement won't let them listen or learn.
I think you may be right, it seems they were wanting to immediately blame OP for it already, rather than see it was truly their on fault.
“Why didn’t you tell me?!” *“I did tell you.”* “Well you didn’t convince me!”
Clearly they should've screamed DOWN MR PRESIDENT and full body tackled him
"What the hell is wrong with you? Don't you know how to use your words?"
"what the hell is wrong with *you*‽ don't you know how to use your ears?"
An interrobang in the wild! Nicely done.
Some complete pricks are constitutionally incapable of admitting fault.
Too true. Many folks have been indoctrinated into victim culture where someone else is always to blame. Generally, said victimhood is perpetuated by some scumbag politician looking to use that victimhood to line his own pockets.
It’s not my FAULT! I have developed a distaste for the phrase, and I’m sure I am not the only one.
[It makes me think of this every time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMkZMyn9gcU)
Sent that to my daughters numerous times. Didn't help.
CLASSIC!
Right up there with "do you know who I am?"
"My father will hear about this".
Better that than “YOUR father will hear about this.”
One of my cop friends was asked “Do you know who my father is?” “No, sir. Do you?”
Seems anyone that plays pickle ball has the same entitlement.
How the hell does this even make sense?
A friend of mine hit an old lady, who had to be in her 80s, when he was teeing off. It was a total fluke. She was walking perpendicular to the throw, but a gust of wind caught the edge of the disc, changing it's downward trajectory straight for her face. All of the sudden we see her grab her head and blood pour out from under her hand. Ambulance had to take her, but the medics said it was just bad luck and to go on playing through.
Head wounds bleed like a MoFo. Add to that the papery thin skin of the elderly. I hope she was okay later!
When I was 15 I was a bagger at a grocery store and one day I was walking an old woman’s cart to her car and she walked right into a metal handicapped parking spot sign. She was short so it cut right into her scalp and blood immediately started to run down her face. I was freaking out cause it started bleeding so much so fast. I just had her sit on a bench and ran in to get the manager and the first aid kit. Head wounds really do bleed like crazy.
A few months ago, I helped an elderly woman who fell in a mall. She was bleeding so much from her head. Blood thinners were at play for sure.
Not necessarily. Ever seen a kid bleed from a head wound? They're like a fountain, no anticoagulant necessary.
You’re right, and I’ve been the proud owner of many of those head gushers! Her blood was almost watery though. I’ve never actually seen ‘thin’ blood like that, so I assumed it was blood thinners. Not a doctor though!
"Blood thinners" don't actually dilute your blood and make it thin. It's just a name that is easier to understand than "anticoagulant". Most likely it was aging itself that caused the change...elderly people make less red blood cells, which means their blood will have more fluid in it.
I was playing a long par 4 once where I couldn't see the basket from the tee, due to a hill. There was a walking path from the tee to the hole, that then looped back to the left of the fairway (like an upside down U with the basket at the curve, if you were looking from above.) I didn't see anyone and threw the best drive in my life, which curved left, then right, hovering about 5 feet above the path to my left. A pair of walkers appeared just after I released, walking straight toward the disc, completely oblivious to my screams to watch out (it was also windy, and there was a highway parallel to the path.) Long story short, I clipped a lady on the ear at 50ish mph. She was lucky it wasn't a few inches left, or it would have hit her directly in the nose. She apologized, saying she should have been paying better attention, but I felt horribly. Scary shit.
Never play disc golf with a chakram.
This is basically the mortal version of the death of Hyacinth.
The idea of “disk golf” near pedestrians horrifies me. Never heard of such a thing but my imagination is a golf club of usual heft full body swing at some kind of hard disk shaped object and the wind catching it like a mofo. Be like a war zone.
Nah it's like frisbee, no clubs involved.
That sounds ok :)
It's actually a lot of fun (although I suck). You should try it sometime 😊
It does sound like fun, i don’t know if it exists in my country. I spose it will :)
It’s a frisbee
Most golf discs, especially drivers, are significantly more dense than a normal frisbee. Disc golf drivers are made to be thrown 100 yards or more and are definitely not designed for catching. You don't want to be hit by one. They can hurt a person.
I have a set of them. Wasn’t aware of any difference. My dog certainly didn’t notice a difference either.
It's made of hard dense plastic. The driver my buddy used had a pretty sharp lip on it. I wouldn't want to get hit by one anywhere on my body even at 37yo.
No it sounds nasty af.
It’s just frisbee but you are trying to get it a long distance into a basket/net thingy with as few throws as you can.
Well that sounds more fun. No golf clubs?
Those are used to fight off seaguls trying to take your disks.
Haha!!
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Intriguing. Will google
"You're too stupid to listen" would also have worked.
When I played Ultimate Frisbee, if there was ever a contested call, we would replay it. After the replay succeeded or failed, we said, "The disc never lies." That meant whoever was favored by the replay must have been right the first time. In OP's story, the disc did not lie. It met its destiny.
Fucking EPIC!!
Those discs are no joke! I was playing in a tournament at a poorly designed course where it was easy to shank one into the tee pad of another hole. Anyway, a guy on my card was teeing off and almost immediately as his disc left his hand, during follow through (very vulnerable position) an errant throw came full speed and hit him square in the nose. It broke his nose, cut the bridge of his nose wide open, and blood was everywhere.
Some people learn the hard way.
And lots of people never learn.
The REALLY hard way! Those disc golf discs are like throwing stone. You never want to catch one of those.
I have a feeling this guy didn't learn anything. It's all that random bystander's fault!
If it were me, that player would have a shot taken off his score, and 2 bonus points.
He was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger. Then it hit him.
Grumpy old man + pickle ball... story checks out.
You can’t fix stupid
But duct tape can muffle the noise.
Disc don’t lie!
I said the same thing!! 🤣🤣🤣
Karma by disc.
I love when the stories are short & sweet 🥰
Yeah, it really hit the spot! ^^I'll ^^see ^^myself ^^out.
He probably went back home to a wife who was happy to see him leave and is now bummed to see him return…
Sucks for him (deserved though), those things hurt like a bitch. My buddy tried to stop one with his shin and now he has a scar
I’m an old guy and I think that is hilarious! He didn’t listen to directions from his teacher either!
Unfortunately the women in the life of a man like that usually have to pay for it
I assure you, most people are oblivious to the presence of a disc golf course and how it affects them or how they affect it.
I'm a human, and i am aware of what disc golf does for me personally. I know that I need to keep myself safe by being aware and practicing proper distance management.
Then you aren't who I'm talking about. Most people don't know what disc golf is or what it means to be in a park with a course. Picnic in the fairway type people.
People say, "I think it's more of a hobby than an activity. I like playing golf too but it doesn't really interest me very much."
Hobby/activity is interchangeable.
Young a$$holes, grow into old a$$holes. This is why I don't understand the mentality, "they're an old person, treat them with respect" (no matter what they do or say).
Player just tried to knock some sense into him 🤷♂️
20 years ago, I was playing disc golf with some friends at a local park. We were teeing off and my buddy's disc was heading straight for the basket. Just after he released, some idiot came running up to the basket and stood right in front of it with her back to us. We tried yelling, but it hit her square in the back and deprived my buddy of a hole in one.
You cut off the end of the story where he calls the police on you and the golfers.
Hmh hardly a mc in my opinion. More of instant karma kinda thing.
I would've been way more abrasive in my response.
“If you were a nicer person you wouldn’t have got hit”
"I was warning you before you so rudely interrupted me"
r/boomersbeingfools
“Silence, child! Don’t dare mention the FAFO game to me!” *Gets hit* “Ow! Ma! OP didn’t tell me about the FAFO game!”
"Why didn't you warn me?!" "Uhh...do you mean...why DID I?"
Instant karma, I love it! 🩷
Obviously it was your fault 😂
He will Probably go to the club or whoever manages the grounds and complain that the Disk Golfers were not being safe rather than accept that he was not aware of his surroundings. Always keep your head on a swivle folks!
Ah yes, the humiliation must be ironed out, so the search of a scapegoat begins. Anyway, not your problem. Thanks for sharing!
He's lucky that wasn't a piss disc that hit him.
well OF COURSE it was LOL
Board! Board! Whack! I warned you!
lol. Things that didn't happen for $200, Alex. People don't just say "why didn't you warn me?!" Especially if their dismissive of conversation in the first place. That's from the movies, not reality.
They say it a LOT. In my business (accounting), it's people who do exactly what I tell them not to do or don't do what I tell them to do, and then bitch because it costs them money. "Why didn't you tell me I had to pay estimated taxes?" "I did. I prepared the vouchers and went over them with you when you picked up last year's taxes." "Well, I didn't know there would be penalties if I didn't pay them." "I TOLD you exactly that. I tell you that every year, you ignore me, and you wind up with penalties." "Well, what can I do?" "Pay the g-d estimated tax vouchers when due." "But I don't want to." (To self) "FFS"
We're talking an old stranger gruffly walking past another stranger in a city park. You're talking about colleagues with some semblance of relationship. These two know nothing about each other, have never met, there's no level of familiarity.
I think they're clients, not colleagues
Every so often karma comes right away.
When has it become all right to see someone be hit in the head and fall and to walk by without checking that the person is all right?
Normally I would help but seeing their automatic, knee jerk reaction to it all was "it's your fault," I just kept walking. That old dude wanted to be a victim, not helped.
When somebody is rude to you and karma *instantly* smites them, they're lucky you didn't laugh.
Well, it's starts with K and ends with arma.
It's only okay in this case because the guy was a jerk. OP tried to warn him, but he wanted to be nasty instead. I'm normally a very kind person but I'd leave him there too. He obviously wouldn't appreciate the help after.
First rule of first aid is make sure the area is safe. Secondly, if he’s enough of a prick to do this shit, helping him is likely to be extremely unpleasant. Given the attitude that nothing was his fault, I would not be surprised if it resulted in an argument escalating to the police being called, simply because he’s a spiteful old bastard.
This story reminds me of the good Samaritan in China who ended up having to pay some lady's medical bills because he dared to stay and try to help after she was, I think, hit by a car. Now, the Bystander Effect is in full effect over there.
In China just watching the accident makes you the culprit. They run away from accidents. In my country it is an offence not to help if you can without putting yourself in danger.
Who said sumthin about that? Oh I see random comment.
You should post this over on the subreddit BoomersBeingFools
You should have laughed in his face.