Golf is a sport that draws obsessives — I mean, look at some of the folks normally in business suits and such populating the local public links and country clubs that have no business swinging it even with monstrous handicaps (yours truly is included in this assessment), but for some reason, it also attracts a lot of weird deaths. A while back, we had the golf cart going over the side at a Cali course, and now we get the example of a very stubborn man in the metro Detroit area whom I suppose wanted to finish his round and wound up bogeying eighteen when he got electrocuted.
A 70-year-old golfer was struck by lightning and killed Wednesday when he remained on a golf course as thunderstorms rolled through metro Detroit.
Yvette Walker, a Detroit Police spokeswoman, said golf course employees warned the man to go inside, but the man, whose name was not released, ignored their warnings.
He suffered burns from the chest up and died at the scene, Walker said.
If anything, I get flashes of life imitating art — this is something straight out of Caddyshack and the priest dragging Carl through the round despite hellish storms. Rarely do sports inspire this sort of dedication through obvious signs of danger, particularly when the sport itself has no inherent danger. I only hope the man was shooting a personal best as far as his round went.
[...] 70 year old golfer+Lghtning= 6 under for the day. Courtesy of Signal To Noise [...]
“Ohhhhh, RAT FARTS!”
— Ajax.
Actually now that I think about it, a buddy of mine who used to work on the golf course on campus back at college watched a man die of a heart attack right in front of him. Guy went from swinging the club to on the ground to deceased in remarkably short order. CPR failed to revive him and that was that.
Odd that you don’t hear these kinds of stories about bowling, which is played in many cases by people in (if anything) even worse physical shape than your average golf duffer. (Not lightning strikes, which would really be weird in bowling, but sudden death.)
— Ajax.
“Odd that you don’t hear these kinds of stories about bowling, which is played in many cases by people in (if anything) even worse physical shape than your average golf duffer. (Not lightning strikes, which would really be weird in bowling, but sudden death.)”
Even weirder considering the amount of cigarettes smoked and beer consumed in a bowling alley. One would think the place would be ripe with overworked tickers.
“Ohhhhh, RAT FARTS!” Thanks for the chuckle!
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interesting