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OUCH! that was kind of cruel of him....but he's right..."it ain't the arrow...it's the Indian"mojo84 wrote:I was once playing with the club pro and I started whining about my crappy clubs. He switched our bags and commenced to prove to me it isn't the club/tool. It's the tool using the tool. Haven't complained about my clubs, tools or guns since.
mojo84 wrote:Tic Tac wrote:A poor workman blames his tools.
So do poor golfers.
Not all of us...but most are soooo desperate for a "magic pill" that will somehow turn them into a scratch player that they will buy the "latest and greatest" new club every time one comes out. I play with a group of low handicap and scratch players every weekend and even most of them can't stand not having the newest club they see touted by the pros (who are getting paid millions to do so). I still play a set of irons that I bought in 1989, and I can hit them better than just about anyone in our group. I've had to reshaft them several times, but they still feel better than any of the new ones I've tried over the years. One buddy that used to gamble with me couldn't break 100 on his best day, ( I gave him strokes on every hole), and he showed up one day with a new driver that had just been introduced. He drove 100 miles to a golf shop in Dallas to look for a new driver because he couldn't hit the one he had...the salesman told him they had all makes and models, but he really needed to know what he was trying to achieve in order to help him select the best one for him. He asked him if he was looking for more distance? my friend answered " well yeah, that'd be good most of the guys hit a lot further then me"...he then asked "what about accuracy...are you looking for something that will hit it straighter?", again he answered, "oh yeah...I need that on the tight course we play". The guy told him, "well then... now, if money's an issue, I can sell you something a lot cheaper of course...but if you really want is to hit it FARTHER and STRAIGHTER, then there's really only one choice. This new -----, it's what all the pros are raving about. So he wrote him a check for $475. I looked at him and said "you do realize, that no one...in the history of golf...has EVER gone into a pro shop and asked for a club that would hit it short and crooked?" He shook his head and said "yeah...I see your point...but man, it just looked soo pretty and what he said sounded soo good, I had to try it". 
I would agree that you should expect to be charged for an ACTUAL action you committed....not so much in this situation...at least AS it is reported. If he was fighting with them, I see no problem with them using physical force or a Taser to control him, but the only action reported, was that he was "wading into traffic and throwing himself in the path of oncoming vehicles". Doesn't make much sense to shoot him, to prevent him from hurting himself. It does not say that he ever struck one of the officers physically, and he was only facing misdemeanor charges. Unless there's a lot more to the story, I can't see how the officers could justify shooting at him in that situation, and I think charging him with assault for the injuries actually caused by the officer's conduct is ridiculous.texanjoker wrote:One should expect to be charged for an action that causes police to any force to include deadly force. Just because they missed doesn't give him a free pass .