March 6, 2008

PGA Golfer Tripp Isenhour Finally Bags a Birdie - The Demise of Other Animals in Sport

Tripp Isenhour is just another fringe PGA Tour grinder, a coin flip to make the cut each week. His stats belie his accuracy though. Tripp managed to intentionally hit and kill a noisy migratory hawk while filming a piece for "Shoot Like a Pro" in Florida. Unfortunately, this is illegal and obviously was captured on tape. Tripp now faces prosecution for bagging this birdie.
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Of course, this post is just an excuse to post video of Randy Johnson exploding a bird in Spring Training a few years back.



And this rabbit who was disentegrated in a race.



And an impromptu funeral for a bird killed by a tennis ball.



Another race incident, this time sending a deer 15+ feet into the air.



Sharapova nailing Serena Williams at the net...while down 5-0. (Serena is a "bird" in the British sense.)



Video could not be located of Dave Winfield killing a bird with a throw from the outfield. Video could also not be located of me running over a squirrel with my bike after it somehow doubled back between the wheels.

7 Responses:

Jeremy said...

Seeing Serena taken out by Sharapova brings back fond memories of one of our six loyal ECB readers taking out the most obnoxious kid at tennis camp (who also happened to be only 8 years old when we were 14) with a vicious overhead right to the forehead causing the camp counselors to thank our ECB reader.

"ben" said...

I wish I could take credit for having done it on purpose, but sadly it was an accident.

I also took out a video camera on a serve when they were taping us during practice. The ball went dead right.

But Jeremy, you seem to have forgotten the time you nailed a bat with one of your forehands. That was pretty impressive.

Russell said...

I just remember how much excitement there was in the dorms when some of these videos first surfaced. Good times, when you have nothing to do...

Jeremy said...

Did I do that one of those nights under the lights at Cannon Road? I remember that those courts were bat infested but if I did that, I completely forgot! Your making the 8-year-old brat cry and then getting congratulated by the counselors was way more amusing though.

J-Red said...

When I played in high school we used to have competitions to see who could hit the other guy the most times and who could spike the ball over the fence the most times. I won both, and I hope that kid from St. Michaels recovered his testicles.

In all fairness, I played doubles and I was tallest, so I had unfair advantages.

"ben" said...

Yes, Jeremy, it was at Cannon Road.

Our theory was that the bat was honing in on the ball thinking that it was its prey.

Guess that's how survival of the fittest works.

J-Red said...

You city/suburb boys might have never done this, but we used to fill socks with some gravel and tie them off in my neighborhood. When you throw them up in the air tens of bats will dive at it thinking it's a bug. It works will pebbles too, but you don't get as many bats.

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