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Ever had your clubs driven over? !!

I would not be using any graphite shaft that has been under the wheels of a 5 tonne van.

The structure will have been damaged to some extent and you do not know to what extent! Tell her to push down on them to flex the graphite and listen for cracks.

A graphite splinter is very painful and if the shaft shatters on impact graphite splitters could fire off and cause you or your playing partners an injury.

Just get them re-shafted and bill the company/small claims court. I'd also be checking that the person reported the "incident" to there employers.
 
Just to throw my two pennath in.

If the bag was placed sufficiently far away from the car being loaded that a van could negoetiate the gap between a line of parked cars, miss people standing at the back of a car doing said loading, then aforementioned bag was placed inconsideratley.

I'm not condoning what the van driver did, but perhaps he was more concentrating on not hitting parked cars and looking out his wings mirrors than he was looing forward. Perhaps he did see the people loading the car, perhaps they moved out of the way and the van diver then assumed the path was clear for him to proceed, by which point he couldn't see the bag placed away from the car and subsequently drive over it, a simple accident.

Then on the other hand the van driver may have seen the bag and thought I'll teach them a lesson, I'll pretend not to see the bag, and he purposely drive over it, feigning surprise and regret in equal measure at his mishap.

But then perhaps the two golfers were to engrossed in chatting and simply forgot where the bag was placed to notice the van entering the car park.

What ever the reason for why the bag was placed where it was placed, or why the van run over it, I dare say a lesson will have been learned to be more careful in future.

Right I'm now off to find my kevlar and a good hiding place:smirk:
 
Khamelion said:
Just to throw my two pennath in.

If the bag was placed sufficiently far away from the car being loaded that a van could negoetiate the gap between a line of parked cars, miss people standing at the back of a car doing said loading, then aforementioned bag was placed inconsideratley.

I'm not condoning what the van driver did, but perhaps he was more concentrating on not hitting parked cars and looking out his wings mirrors than he was looing forward. Perhaps he did see the people loading the car, perhaps they moved out of the way and the van diver then assumed the path was clear for him to proceed, by which point he couldn't see the bag placed away from the car and subsequently drive over it, a simple accident.

Then on the other hand the van driver may have seen the bag and thought I'll teach them a lesson, I'll pretend not to see the bag, and he purposely drive over it, feigning surprise and regret in equal measure at his mishap.

But then perhaps the two golfers were to engrossed in chatting and simply forgot where the bag was placed to notice the van entering the car park.

What ever the reason for why the bag was placed where it was placed, or why the van run over it, I dare say a lesson will have been learned to be more careful in future.

Right I'm now off to find my kevlar and a good hiding place:smirk:
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Seems a pretty good idea to me!
 
North Mimms said:
I wonder what the response would have been if it had been a bloke who got his clubs driven over? :whistle:
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Exactly the same I would have thought. I think most people would put their clubs down while they put their trolley in the boot.
If it had been a woman driver however....:D
 
Sweep said:
Exactly the same I would have thought. I think most people would put their clubs down while they put their trolley in the boot.
If it had been a woman driver however....:D
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As there were two people present, common sense could have prevailed with one saying "would you mind holding my bag while I put my trolley in the boot?"

Sorry, I have hat wrong, it should read "would you mind holding my bag while I put my lipstick on, and rearrange my hair" :D

**Definatley off to hide now
 
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My_HarrisTweed_Cap said:
I'd be replacing them and claiming as you never know what damage has been done. They could have been weakened quite considerably.
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Claiming from who, im sure the insurance company would take a very dim view of someone leaving clubs on a car park floor otherwise every golf player in the world would leave there golf clubs on the m4 and claim off whoever drives over them lol
 
markgs said:
Claiming from who, im sure the insurance company would take a very dim view of someone leaving clubs on a car park floor otherwise every golf player in the world would leave there golf clubs on the m4 and claim off whoever drives over them lol
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Umm if that was the case then everyone would just crash there car on the m4 and get a new one of them......
 
This thread has nothing to do with golf just people who have no common sense that want to claim for anything even it they are in the wrong. MODS please lock it pretty please
 
markgs said:
This thread has nothing to do with golf just people who have no common sense that want to claim for anything even it they are in the wrong. MODS please lock it pretty please
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You are the person who as made it what it is..... If you look for trouble... you WILL find it....
 
Its a golf club car park. I would expect to find golf bags, trolleys, golfers, dogs, etc.

The van driver is either reckless, clueless, or blind. He should not be driving at all.
 
markgs said:
This thread has nothing to do with golf just people who have no common sense that want to claim for anything even it they are in the wrong. MODS please lock it pretty please
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Firstly- you didn't start the thread. I did. You merely added some rather contentious posts to it.

Secondly, nowhere did I mention anyone claiming for anything. You mentioned that if you were the van driver you would be claiming for possible damage to your van, which is quite frankly daft.

Thirdly, most sensible people don't drive round golf club car parks the same way they do on the M4, but why you brought the M4 into it, goodness only knows.
 
I do not drive a van guys just trying to make a point that if you leave something on a car park floor and it gets driven over you can not claim off the van driver if anything he could claim of the person that put the clubs there if any damage to his van. I really feel for this van driver if anything comes back on him and if someone knows him i will be more than willing to offer him free legal help. Just to prove a point
 
markgs said:
I do not drive a van guys just trying to make a point that if you leave something on a car park floor and it gets driven over you can not claim off the van driver if anything he could claim of the person that put the clubs there if any damage to his van. I really feel for this van driver if anything comes back on him and if someone knows him i will be more than willing to offer him free legal help. Just to prove a point
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Had the clubs been thrown under the van's wheels so that the driver couldn't avoid them, then you may have a point. Otherwise, without negligence on the part of the club owner, the (apparent) fact that they were very close by that it was the Van Driver's lack of awareness that caused them to be run over, I think you'd be 'on a loser'!
 
markgs said:
I do not drive a van guys just trying to make a point that if you leave something on a car park floor and it gets driven over you can not claim off the van driver if anything he could claim of the person that put the clubs there if any damage to his van. I really feel for this van driver if anything comes back on him and if someone knows him i will be more than willing to offer him free legal help. Just to prove a point
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You really are talking some rot!

(Would I take legal advice from mark? Hmmm no)
 
I still maintain that it isn't unreasonable to put a bag beside a boot to put the trolly in. I do it every game and while I don't leave them miles out into the way of parking cars in adjacent spaces I would expect the driver to be aware of their presence. Similarly, if I put the clubs on the trolly and left it behind the boot while I get something out of the car I would expect it to be a big enough presence to be avoided
 
HomerJSimpson said:
I still maintain that it isn't unreasonable to put a bag beside a boot to put the trolly in. I do it every game and while I don't leave them miles out into the way of parking cars in adjacent spaces I would expect the driver to be aware of their presence. Similarly, if I put the clubs on the trolly and left it behind the boot while I get something out of the car I would expect it to be a big enough presence to be avoided
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Spot on Homer.
 
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