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Bag up all the premium balls and I'll drive up and buy 'em from you! . . . the only the ones in great condition please.
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My son says some of them are "obviously range balls", but he might just have been setting an initial bargaining position.
Nice.....The thief and the buyer.
All on one forum.
You two jackasses need to read the News and the Laws...
Thief busted for stealing thousands of golf balls worth $20,000
Posted 5:53 pm, December 5, 2014, by Patrick Clark
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO (KTVI) – When it comes to the game of golf, most players are accustomed to losing the occasional ball. But not 42,000 in a year.
“That almost put us out of business because you need golf balls to operate,” says Carol Boggs, the owner of Golfport Driving Range
The driving range in Maryland Heights has been dealing with drama by the dozens. In November 2013, someone made off with thousands of range balls in the middle of the night. Then around August 14th of this year, the golf bandit struck again.
“We couldn’t imagine that anybody could come in here and pick up that many golf balls without somebody recognizing that there’s somebody out there picking golf balls,” says Boggs.
It was thousands of range balls stamped with Golfport's “two dogs” logo.
“We pay extra to have logos put on a golf ball and we get a different logo every year so that we can know which year these golf balls came from,” says Boggs.
The two dogs are Tee-Shot and Backspin, the lovable Labrador mascots at Golfport.
This October, in the middle of the night, authorities say the bogey-man struck for the third time. Police, working on a tip, linked the crimes together
“They decided that they’d go down and investigate and sure enough they found our golf balls,” says Boggs. “Not all of them but some of them.”
According to Maryland Heights police, 27-year old Nathan Brown admitted stealing the balls on all three occasions. More than $20,000 worth of balls were stolen, but only 2,000 recovered.
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That's in Missouri
Confronting course crime can be wearisome
Gina Kellogg Hogan, managing editor
If your favorite season of the year is autumn, you're probably not a golf-course superintendent. Although many superintendents are like anybody else--they enjoy the typical festivities of the season: packing the kids off for college, cheering on the local high-school football team and guessing who's giggling behind the masks of neighborhood trick-or-treaters--these same events often are the catalyst for many superintendents' biggest nightmares: Vandalism.
Though the public may look on vandalism as harmless highjinks, the superintendent knows better. Vandalism acts drain budgets, increase insurance rates and force grounds crews to work overtime. A lot of the problem may be that the public doesn't look at golf-course vandalism with the same type of fear or scrutiny that they view vandalism of other properties. And because children are often the inciters--and much of the damage occurs in suburban settings--parents and other authority figures don't take the problem as seriously. They don't tend to recognize golf-course vandalism as the crime that it is.
"People seem to think of a golf course as public property, and their taxes paid for it, so they can do whatever they want on one," says Dick Neumann, superintendent of Highlands Golf Course (Lincoln, Neb.). He describes an incident recently that underscores this point. While driving by a school located near his course's property, he noticed a group of children hitting golf balls onto a field. He stopped to ask the kids where they had gotten the balls. They described how the driving range was "covered" with golf balls, and they would go over after dusk and scoop them up by the bucketful.
Neumann explained that the golf balls were the property of the golf course and that, by picking them up and taking them home, the children were stealing. He gathered up what balls he could and told the children that if they had any others at home that he would like them to return the balls to the golf course.
Later that afternoon, a woman driving a station wagon pulled up to the pro shop's front door. In the back were about 350 golf balls, Neumann says. Although that incident shows that some parents try to make amends for their children's acts, Neumann has other stories that detail parents' culpability.
For example, another superintendent with whom Neumann works got a call one day from someone inquiring about the worth of tee flags and the costs to replace them. "The superintendent said, 'Okay, what do you know?'" Neumann says. As expected, many of the club's flags recently had been stolen.
"The guy said his neighbor was bragging that his kid had stolen all these flags," Neumann says. "The superintendent said, 'Well, you tell your neighbor that what his child did was felony theft.'" The superintendent told the caller how much the flags were worth. "Two days later," Neumann says, "when the golf pro came in that morning, all those flags were standing at the door."
Enlisting others' help Superintendents go to great lengths to deter vandalism and other crime on their courses. Bringing in all the flags and tee markers every night is a common solution. Others try to involve the community.
Stan Metsker is the golf-course superintendent at The Country Club of Colorado (Colorado Springs, Colo.). His club sits in the middle of a residential development whose perimeter melds into the backyards of nearby residents.
Not only do both of you LIE your asses off on this Forum, but now you two are
complicit in the theft of the Property from the Golf Course Spola steals them from...
You two are the gift that keeps on giving...
You're unbelievable .....should I forward a copy of your posts to the course operator ?
Three tees, but I only took the short walk over two fairways and 3 tee boxes
I guess you did not learn anything from nonono's post. I use to be a caddie when I was a kid and we had to clear the driving range of balls in the dark before we could go home because of jerks like you that would steal them if left on the grass overnight.
I have never been on the driving range.
Who is nonono?
No....It's " What is NoNoNo ? "
Something you apparently do not understand.
You have stolen private property and arranged to sell the stolen goods thru a
public Soccer Forum to another poster.
I didn't walk this morning. I was watching the news on various channels as soon as I got up.
You wasted your time. They can go after everyone associated with Trump, but they have not found any evidence of election meddling by his staff.
George Papadopoulos, t's foreign policy adviser, has already confessed and plead guilty. It was on the news you didn't watch.
Just like a true lib, spin it if you don't like it. No longer in administration and confessed and plead guilty to what genius? Something that has nothing to do with the election and Trump.
Interesting approach, kind of like the logic of 4nos mixed with the anger of LE. The offspring of a genetic-modification lab experiment gone bad?
1. I am not a "lib".
2. GP confessed to lying to the FBI. Admittedly the lie was made after he was no longer in the administration.
3. But - what was the question about?
4. The confession was part of a plea bargain. The important word there is "bargain", implying there were some other more serious crimes that were forgiven if he confessed all. So - what else did he tell the FBI?
A. You've never done a Lab experiment.
B. You very well could be the end result of a Lab experiment.
C. Combining Goldfish Grey matter and " Spola " resulted in response # 3.
D. If you confess to the theft of Private Party Property it will go a long way towards a Plea Bargain.
So what else did you attempt to sell to the poster on this Forum named " Rat " that
you acquired while walking the Golf Course near your residence.... ?