I had to catch a train to and from work today due to my car being serviced. On my way home, I took a putter with me to try out for 2morrow as Thursday is my day off. Anyway, minding my own business having a smoke off the train platform, I am confronted by a person asking me for a smoke. I said no and that was it. This person happened to be drunk, had a bandage on his hand and in the other hand, a bottle of glue you could say. He then started going off his head because I said no to a smoke and then he said he was born in this country? Possibly, the glue was playing with his mind. A few harsh words by him towards me made me laugh. He then did the wind up and tried to snot me. He missed, I dropped my bag and laptop on the ground, had my putter in hand and then wound it up and bang, broke the shaft over his melon. The putter head (a Ping Redwood) fell down onto the train track into the darkness. Gone! It was witnessed by security, on camera, the police came, I gave a statement so no problems for me. It was self defence on my part.
So, I then get home late, miss the kick-off to the Origin Footy and am less a putter head. It has been a different day.
I am sure the indigenous brother with a massive headache will think twice before wanting to assault a dude with a golf club in the future? Maybe he can’t remember or even knew what he was doing? I reckon I should start selling 2 part epoxy at train stations but then again, we have to try and prevent this sort of thing!!
Does anyone want a putter lesson?
Cheers boys…

hahaha.. interesting story but htats what idiots get for messing with a golfer (with a club anyway). or even anyone with a golf club (wannabes). just wondering how far do u drive(golf duh)..

What was the weight of the putter like and would you recommend it?

Did you have a FLW at impact?

lucky for him you didnt have your 2 iron

i just watched qld play like dogs. but your story cheered me up! i’m sure there could be a marvel comic based on this!

Plus four wearing mild mannered white collar worker who moonlights as a vigilante using his putter like thor’s hammer hahahahahahahaha.
yes i’m tired.

lucky you didn’t have the yips.
Whenever someone asks me for a smoke I always reply “If you can’t afford to smoke, don’t smoke”
Even more fun is when they offer to buy one off you for a $1. I say its $10..sellers market biyatch

Did you have a practice swing?

I’ll happily give a cigarette to a stranger, as long as i’m confident if they were asked for one they’d do the same. if not then f#*k off.

Kiwi: “did you have a practice swing?”

lmao hahahahahahahaha

lucky for him you didnt have your 2 iron

When you think something is idiot proof, god makes a better idiot

if it was a 2 iron he would have missed :)

PING REDWOOD its just not worth it, smashing it i mean! should have taking the beating i reckon.

So you lost your redwood head? That sucks…..Should have just punched the grub in the face.

So some lucky railway worker is going to fill his pocket with a PING redwood and no doubt it will be on ebay soon?

Personally I would have clocked him with the laptop bag first (work will buy a new one) then everything else, socks, underwear and then last resort would be the Redwood…

Good to hear you came out of it alright.

Sorry to spice this with politics but your attacker will be picking up a baby bonus to reproduce and some others will not be from 1 Jan….go figure and thanks KRudd.

You may not be out of the woods just yet Swedeas. From my reckoning, your assailant is either drunk or affected by another substance, he uses his fist and misses. You clobber him with a golf club. (good on you by the way) Self defence, possibly. Others may believe that the use of a golf club against an obviously intoxicated and impaired person may fit more into the category of excessive force.

Don’t be surprised if the little indigenous fella goes to his legal aid shop and because funding says that the solicitor will get paid just for making some more inquires, in that his/her poor client has been fearfully assaulted by a club wielding maniac and we want justice (read crim compo) and you find yourself being reinterviewed.

hahahahaha funny story. Did you take a divot or pick it cleanly?

I have a couple of pre-bent putters I would rather have used! 8)

Brett

from a police point of view, i can see Daves POV, but i dont think it would be something the police would pursue with open arms. It was self defense, although maybe using your hands would have been a more appropriate method. Did he get charged?

Now thats concrete evidence that smoking is bad for your health!

i wonder if that will show up on smoke packets
A picture of a drunken bum with a putter wedged in the side of his head. Smoking kills in more ways than one

Hi guys, thanks for having a read and offering your replies. I must also add, I do not give a hoot about the putter head, being safe is the main thing. I guess you could also say, when a conflict arises, you do what you do. Instinct comes into play. I could think of nothing worse than using my fist on some scum. I would have to wash my fist afterwards and train stations are not known for hygienic toilets are they?
I got a phone call from the police today and the guy got sown back together at the hospital and then did a runner from the hospital. Apparently, he is wanted for other things but the police could not say why to me. I guess he will be out on the streets again behaving as a citizen right now?
As for a practice swing or why I didn’t use a 2iron, no practice swing as it was over in a flash, no FLW I reckon, as i had the putter in a baseball style and swung it like an axe. I did make that chink sound when it snapped like what happens when you hit a tree with your shaft or your shaft just breaks if is was old. So hopefully, won’t have to be catching a train again for a while. On my way back from having a social hit today, I stopped in at my local bottlo and the guy who works there plays golf as well so I told him what happened. He laughed and said to me that he has to put up with that all the time. They walk into the shop and try and steal bottles of rum/bourbon etc. I guess it is harder to steal a slab of rum cans with the price increase now. So instead, they will get a bottle of rum and have even stronger mixes with their bottle of coke from the 711? Where is the extra tax on glue, can we lower the tax on thongs so they can at least were footwear. Not trying to go down the side of politics but Sidman started it! Take care boys.