i cant believe what happened today!

     so i was playing my local course today and got to hole 7. hole seven has a walking path about 30 feet to the right of the tee that goes along the whole side of the hole and is considered o.b. the walking path is pretty popular with other non-discing park goers. so today off the tee i threw about 200 feet down the fairway and it curved right at the end (bad throw for this hole) and skipped o.b. when it skipped across the sidewalk it skipped about 15 feet from this old lady walking along the path. it wasn't intentional (obviously) and i shouted heads up as it turned her way and apologized after i seen it skip past her. i have seen this happen many times before, by either me or friends i am playing with, and on many different holes and courses throughout the country and every person has been more then cool about it. not this lady. she preceded to pick up my disc and start walking away with it. i see this(still on the tee-box 200 feet away)and start jogging towards her. when i got closer to her i started asking her (calm and nice still, probably because it was a little old lady)what shes doing with my disc and explaining to her that this is a disc golf course and we were playing a game and i didn't mean to throw it at her. she ignores me and just keeps walking. i am starting to get mad and yell at her that she cant just take my disc. when i get about 20 feet from her she stops and throws the disc down the cliff that is next to the walking path and into the river(coincidentally, it was my river she picked up). i snapped out when she did that. i started screaming at her at the top of my lungs. such  things as what the f*** is wrong with you?!?!?, why would you f***ing do that?!?!? your f***ing crazy etc. and she just keeps walking away and the only thing she says is "you put my life in jeopardy!!" i then preceded to tell her that if she thinks her life is in jeopardy because of a disc flying by her fifteen feet away then don't walk around a f***ing disc golf course!!! she kept walking, and i stopped following her and went to fetch my disc and finish out the round fuming the whole time.

     i am sitting at home and this is still bothering me. i cant believe this lady had the audacity to do that! i could understand if the disc hit her and she got mad( because it happened to me before) but i cant even justify it because it really didn't even come that close to her. is she really that miserable that she's gotta try to ruin the good time i am having? like, if you were walking around in the park and some kids were having a catch with a football and the one kid overthrows it to the other and it lands near you are you going to pick up that ball and take it??? no normal person would do that. i really hate people sometimes. anybody ever have something like this happen to them ever while they were playing?

 

[Jim Coonradt]

I would say that it is always best to err on the side of caution. An incident where someone actually gets hit can be very bad for the local disc golf scene. Wasn't it Huntington Beach that had to change the course layout because of a kid getting hit?

 

http://articles.ocregister.com/2010-02-16/crime/24649018_1_professi...

[xians421]

Or Kit Carson Park hen the Mayor's nephew got turned into a Hawaiian.

[Disc Player Sports]

HUNTINGTON BEACH– A woman hit in the face with a golf disc in Huntington Beach Central Park wants the city to cover $550 in medical expenses, according to a claim filed with the city.

Ariana Benavente, 40, of Alpine, filed a claim on Jan. 4 saying a rogue golf disc from the nearby Disc Golf Course hit her in the face, resulting in "internal trauma to the head, nose and eye," the claim says.

Benavente said she was walking in the park on Oct. 17 for a Brain Tumor Foundation event, and there was not a proper barrier around the course to prevent the incident. She was dazed and shocked by the blow and was taken to a Fountain Valley hospital emergency room, the claim says.

Claims are generally precursors to lawsuits. City officials said the claim is currently being investigated and that preliminary information "indicates the that the subject park where the accident occured is not owned, controlled or maintained by the city", officials said.

[Jim Coonradt]

When in these situations you do have to take into account what might happen if a disc goes awry. In the two cases when it happened to me, the shot completely got away from me. If this happens to you and your friends on a regular basis then you should reconsider throwing when pedestrians are anywhere close by. We often have to wait a couple of minutes to throw at our course when there is a stream of walkers or bike riders. Waiting isn't what we want to do but it is a better alternative to hitting someone or getting into it with someone. Sometimes we will also ask a pedestrian to wait while we throw if they are coming up from behind. Most are more than willing to pause for a moment or two.

[Disc Player Sports]

The short course locally has a lot of walkers.

We are very lucky to have the course in the ground.

And most of the disc golfers feel that way, lucky.

Be smart and don't throw a disc when "ANYONE" is near the flight path good or bad.

You both mishandled the situation. The lady was pissed, and you put her in jeopardy. A flying disc at you! 

Come on, put yourself in her shoes.

Why did you throw it in the first place?

Disc golf in a park is a privilege not a right.

The lady has the 'right' to walk anywhere in that park. 

You have the privilege to respect that.

Sorry you lost the disc, but learn from it.

Don't throw a disc, when others are anywhere near!

[ROBEY the one.]

DPS, that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard (maybe not but close).

 

"Disc golf in a park is a privilege not a right.

The lady has the 'right' to walk anywhere in that park."

 

They are either both privileges or both rights, up to you to decide. But to say the lady has more rights then us as disc golfers? So we are inferior people because we play disc? She may have a right to walk anywhere in the park but she also has an equal right to get hit by a disc if she is walking down a fairway or into between you and the basket as you are putting.

If there is a disc golf course there we have as much if not more rights to throw a disc on that course then she has rights to walk on it.

In this situation neither party is at fault, who is at fault? The city, for putting the path to close to the fairway or putting a hole to close to the path (depending on which was there first). Its not her fault for walking on a walking path but it is also not his fault for throwing a disc on a disc golf course.

 

"Be smart and don't throw a disc when "ANYONE" is near the flight path good or bad.

You both mishandled the situation."    I Agree.

 

When we start standing up for our rights to be in the parks or have DG specific parks then maybe people will take us seriously, but until then we will be"frolfers" playing a laughable stoner pastime.

 

You have the RIGHT to sell yourself short but not the rest of us.

 

[ROBEY the one.]

^bump

 

[Disc Player Sports]

Too funny.

Disc golfers don't have as much rights as homeowners do around parks.

The thrower of an object, will always be at fault.

People will walk anywhere they want, especially in a public park.

They always do. How many times have people walked across fairways and are totally clueless?

Everyday.

Whether or not there is a bike path, sidewalk or trail, getting hit is getting hit.

The only time disc golfers have 100% rights are on private courses.

Remember a 'disc golfer' getting hit in the head with a golf ball, yes a golf ball during a disc golf tournament. The tournament that day was on the practice course of a well know private course.

The disc golfer tried to sue the private course! what a waste of time. When you walk onto a private golf course, the course relinquishes itself from ANY responsibility. In a public park a 

'walker' does not sign a waiver to walk.

Disc golf courses can and are pulled out because of risk.

Recently had to move holes around at a local course because of complaining neighbors (taxpayers)

right or wrong, disc golf comes second when it comes to those that live near and around a park.

This is the way it is, and will never change.

Not about selling anyone short.

[Pete Maher]

you all have good points i just want to put this out there to clear it up, I never throw on a hole if there is anybody in front of me at all. it is a distraction to my game if there are people anywhere in front of me at all. that being said, this path is not in front of me at all when i am throwing my tee shot this path should have never come into play unless you completely shit the bed like i did on that throw. like Jim said, if i waited for nobody to be on that path to throw, i would have waited all day and never got to play that hole. and i don't think a disc at the end of its flight that had already skipped twice before it even got to the path would have done any damage to anyone at all even if it did hit them.

[Pete Maher]

and this doesn't happen to me on a regular basis at all(the shot completely getting away from me) 99.9 percent of the time im keeping it on the fairway, especially on this hole. it's not my modus operandi to curse out old ladies either, but i tried talking to her nicely for a minute and that didn't work out to well

[JEFFREY JEAN]

getting hit and almost getting hit are two different things.  Sounds  like she is pretty much a bitch.

[Pete Maher]

when i say that it has happened many times before by either me or my friends its because there are some courses(north watertower in Sarasota comes to mind) that have walking paths weaving in and out of the whole course and you can look all you want and see no one and then when your releasing  somebody will turn a corner and come into view and its too late. it was an accident and will always be an accident if my disc comes anywhere near anyone when i throw