THE THREAD!!!

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He avoided the ball, and was not otherwise physically injured...

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Oh, lookee there... a double faber...

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Anyway, the next day my father went bowling again...

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But NOT at the alley that almost did him in! [:D]

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Apparently, people were pretty shaken up and amazed at the accident.

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Nobody had ever seen anything like it before...

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And, i don't recall they have little warning signs that say "WARNING - bowling balls coming out of ball return may simulate cannon balls." 

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They might put some of these up after the incident, however. [:'(]

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Some philosophers claim doing too much of what you love will kill you...

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And i've seen and heard of numerous such incidents...

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But i never really though bowling could kill you... hah!

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i've heard of guys who like to work on cars getting killed when the car fell on them, and stuff like that...

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In the "killer car" incident, it was up on a jack... well, temporarily...

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When it came OFF the jack is when the car lover was done in...

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The WEIRDIST case i've read about was the guy who loved his tractor...

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i read about this in a forensic pathology journal many years ago (30??)

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Anyway, this guy (a farmer), REALLY loved his tractor...

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He would write love poems to it, etc. [X(]

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Apparently, he decided to, er, mate with his beloved...

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This isn't very easy to accomplish, apparently...