I was out with my wife for our coaching lesson and my coach was trying to get me to try and outside line. I missed my mark outside by about 2 boards and ended up in the gutter. Well I turned around in disgust and then my coach just started laughing and said I wish I would have gotten that one on camera. I turned around and it was a strike. Apparently my ball popped out of the gutter half way down the lane and hit the pocket perfectly. The coach said he had never seen that happen before. He said he has seen balls pop out toward the end of the lane but never in the middle.

Interesting lol, too bad it wouldn't have counted in a real game. I've never seen anything like that, nor heard about it before now.

I had a similar thing happen to me, that I mentioned in a thread awhile back. I was bowling league on the last lane, lane 40.
I was playing outside too, well my thumb stuck and I dumped the ball into the gutter at a pretty good clip.

My ball jumped out of the gutter and got airborne and smashed into the concrete wall next to the lane. Then it hit the floor bounced up and blew right through the little door that leads into the back room where the pinsetters are. By now everyone around me is laughing thier a$$es off, and they laughed even harder when the mechanic comes out of the back with my ball looking as though he just got shot at. It was pretty funny.

LOL, man that sounds like one I would have liked to witness as well! Good story eraser!

Strangest thing that every happened to me occurred when I was shooting at a 10 pin. The house I bowl at has AMF pinsetters, which, at some times, will have pins stuck rolling on their side in the pit right behind the gutter. Went to shoot the 10 pin, missed it and ended up hitting the top of the stuck pin which launches the ball into the air. This is not entirely unusual. What was unusual was the fact that when my ball hit the cushion at the back of the pit, it landed right back into the gutter, made it underneath the sweep before it came all the way down, and rolled all the way back up the gutter to the foul line where I picked it back up. Shame it was in practice.

Mark

It's little moments like these that make me want to hit the lanes. You just never know what is going to happen. Again too bad that wasn't on tape. AFV, might get a kick out of it.

ive had something really crazy happen, i was bowling on lane 8 and someone was bowling on lane 7 he was right handed and bowling with no thumb and trying to throw it real fast, well i had left the 1-2-5 i think and anyways he was starting to bowl and he bowled a gutter, well he threw it so fast that it shot over the gutter into my gutter and out on to my lane, it went out to about the 10th board, hooked back in and picked up my spare! it was hilarious

LOL! Nice story guys i havent had any of those thing happen in my center. Closes thing was someone got ball stuck in his thumb and ball went air borne on the gutter cap and bounced off that landed on next lane and knocked some pins down.

Hahahaha, There's some good stories here! I think one of the weirdest things that happened to me was I threw a spare, and turned out waiting for my ball to come, just to see it rolling back towards the gutter at a surprisingly fast speed. I still have no idea how it happened, almost wondered if it fell off the ball return thing in the back as it was heading back towards the return or something.. I just remember being like "What the frick...?" We laughed.

While not as funny, I saw a random customer put a ball through the ceiling and bring down a whole panel of roof debris onto a lane.. that was interesting.

ist funny to say there is a spot above one of the lanes at my house where it looks like a ball has hit it ! i was trying for a 10 pin one time and hit the gutter and it hit the lane next to me and knocked the pins down. bad thing was it was on. and it sent my ball to the lane next to it which was not on. i had to go to the desk and tell the lady that my ball was 2 lanes over and i needed to get my ball returned 2 lanes over. also the sweep came crashing down in the middle of the 2nd game sunday in league. now that was funny. maintenance guy said that it was broke so bad that they where going to have to call someone on the outside to fix it. one of the welds on it broke and it came down in mid play. jacked it all up too.