That s sort of like a hole in one in golf!! not happen very
often.....sounds like it really did not benefit him....he hit a lot of
other cones??
Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>
> Well, no doubt many of you have heard this story before, but I couldn't
> resist. At the '97 Nationals, I was working the ESP heat, west side of the
> north course. Some mostly red Mustang comes roaring through the offsets,
> gets way behind, and doesn't try too hard to save it, smacks a cone dead on.
> The cone gets sucked under the car, scrapes along, hits the rear tire and is
> flung skyward from under the back tire. It flops around in the air, head over
> heels, heads for the ground, hits the old concrete and bounces about. Finally
> comes to rest, on its base, *in the box*
>
> Had I not been there to witness it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it
> either. I just couldn't call it in as a penalty. I was probably laughing
> too hard!
>
> mjb.
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