Holy shit! it's raining golf balls
Yeah I know I should be doing homework or playing World of Warcraft but something so funny and yet kinda bad happened at work tonight, although words can not capture it, but since I don't know how to put photo's on live journal I’ll have to go with words.
So I started my shift at 4 at the dome due to the rain. The town just finished putting in a very costly new ball washing system, because of the jamming problems we had last year, this year's model had the balls going right from the washer to the pvc piping were the new air blowers launch the balls through the pipes and into the bins for the public. Well it's a big joke at the dome because over the past 2 years the machines and everything would jam or break, so they got the new one this year and it was previously tested before my shift and worked fine.
So I go out pick up some golf balls and pull back in at 4:15. I turn the new system on and begin to wash the balls and make sure it is running fine, then at roughly 4:30 the guy I was working with came into the back were I was telling me to shut everything down. Now were I am you have a wall between me and were the bins and public are, you can see the balls go up the pipe and through the wall but that’s it. So wondering what is up I come out to see the wreckage. Were the pipe goes into a elbow over the bins and drops into the bins was well no more, there was pvc piping pieces everywhere and get this, golf balls shot clear across the dome to the miniature golf course raining down on the people playing putt putt, before I was notified to turn it off. Not to mention raining down into our creek in there and on the fish in the creek, it was quite an impressive site. But I only got to see the aftermath sadly, although I wish I could have seen the people running from the golf balls. After picking up the golf balls I did some math and it’s estimated we sent 300 golf balls onto the miniature golf course, half ending up in the water were I eventually fished out.
Basically the golf balls were being pushed through the pipe with such force that when they hit the elbow enough times they shattered it and kept on going, so for the rest of the night we couldn't use the machine, but every time I passed by it I would just start laughing because it's so funny that whatever they put in there breaks. Now if only we could have directed though flying balls at the people that hit me in the cart....
So I started my shift at 4 at the dome due to the rain. The town just finished putting in a very costly new ball washing system, because of the jamming problems we had last year, this year's model had the balls going right from the washer to the pvc piping were the new air blowers launch the balls through the pipes and into the bins for the public. Well it's a big joke at the dome because over the past 2 years the machines and everything would jam or break, so they got the new one this year and it was previously tested before my shift and worked fine.
So I go out pick up some golf balls and pull back in at 4:15. I turn the new system on and begin to wash the balls and make sure it is running fine, then at roughly 4:30 the guy I was working with came into the back were I was telling me to shut everything down. Now were I am you have a wall between me and were the bins and public are, you can see the balls go up the pipe and through the wall but that’s it. So wondering what is up I come out to see the wreckage. Were the pipe goes into a elbow over the bins and drops into the bins was well no more, there was pvc piping pieces everywhere and get this, golf balls shot clear across the dome to the miniature golf course raining down on the people playing putt putt, before I was notified to turn it off. Not to mention raining down into our creek in there and on the fish in the creek, it was quite an impressive site. But I only got to see the aftermath sadly, although I wish I could have seen the people running from the golf balls. After picking up the golf balls I did some math and it’s estimated we sent 300 golf balls onto the miniature golf course, half ending up in the water were I eventually fished out.
Basically the golf balls were being pushed through the pipe with such force that when they hit the elbow enough times they shattered it and kept on going, so for the rest of the night we couldn't use the machine, but every time I passed by it I would just start laughing because it's so funny that whatever they put in there breaks. Now if only we could have directed though flying balls at the people that hit me in the cart....