Falling from the sky...

[Todd2]

This one is hard to believe, but it's true. All right, I'm fishing with my daughter and son this afternoon and we are crossing from one side of Mckneely lake to the other with the trolling motor. Right out in the middle of the lake, something small (but hard) came straight down out of the sky and hit the top of my shoulder, bounced off, hit the side of the boat and made a splash in the water. Now my kids were sitting down drinking cokes and eating snacks, I scanned the sky and both banks and saw nothing. I don't even think anyone could've have thrown something from the bank, we were in the middle of the lake. Wierd stuff...

[bigrod]

It's called a golf ball dude. You were fishing next to Quail Chase golf course.

[RC5]

The sky is falling !!! The sky is falling !!!

[MrSplitshot]

LOL!

Yeah, did you hear "FORE" anytime during that interlude?

Seriously though, good thing it didn't hit you in the head. I almost got creamed by an errant tee shot while in my Tracker sitting on Elkhorn Creek in Georgetown.

[RICHYD4U]

Might have been one of my drives. I was bombing the driver the other day!

We are going to have to start calling you "chicken little"

-Rich

[Todd2]

It's called a golf ball dude. You were fishing next to Quail Chase golf course.

LOL, yeah I wonder how long before somebody gets smacked by one of those. Nah, this was smaller. One of those things I'll never figure out I guess.

[Chubminnow]

My supervisor was at a lake with his family one time about two years ago (I don't remember which lake but for some reason I seem to remember it being Dale Hollow, not sure if Dale Hollow's golf course is close to the water at any point or not)...anyway, this guy is not a fisherman, he's just a family man who was taking his family out on a rented pontoon, etc. Well...he was lounging with the family, strapping a life jacket on one of the kids when all of a sudden he let out a wild Indian like war holler...he said the family freaked out, they thought he pulled a muscle or dislocated a disk in his back or something...but this wasn't so. What happened was he got hit in the lower back by a golf ball. He said it hurt like all get out, stung like the dickens, just plain out hurt. So what he did was he proceeded to bank the pontoon, then abandoned ship and marched through the woods in his swimming trunks, flip flops and no shirt until he got to the golf course with golf ball in hand...where he entered the course there wasn't anyone golfing so he walks along in his lake attire looking for the rascals. Afterwards he admitted he didn't know exactly what he ws going to do if he found the guys, and after all it wasn't done on purpose...but I guess it hurt him bad enough that he felt like he had to find the person(s) responsible...hindsight, and to hear him tell it, it was pretty dag gone funny...shirtless and sunburned man, wearing swimming trunks and flip flops walking around on golf course in pursuit or lousy golfer, lol...

[smashdn]

(I don't remember which lake but for some reason I seem to remember it being Dale Hollow, not sure if Dale Hollow's golf course is close to the water at any point or not.

I played there about a month ago and I never saw the lake from any holes.

[bigrod]

You can see it on the west course by teebox 2 and three and on the south course but I don't remember what holes

[smashdn]

At the state park course you can see the lake? I even brought up satellite images and couldn't possibly see how you could hit a ball into the lake form any place onthe course.

[bigrod]

I don't know what state park course you are referring to. You must me talking to someone else on another thread because on this one we are talking about McNealy Lake and it backs up to Quail Chase golf course.

[jcb]

Sometimes if a jet's lavatory valve has a leak in it, ice can form while the jet is at high altitudes. Then during descent it thaws and falls off. But that explanation is sort of boring, plus it's not so nice to think you were hit with a chunk of frozen wee-wee, so if I were you I'd call it a meteorite.