I think he gave me the pin because they are going to put new pins in before the leagues start up in a few weeks. I got one off the pair I threw my 300 on last year because they put new pins in the next day. ( different house )
We've had it happen a time or two at our center pins getting
down in the ball return and the first time I shot a 299 game
the center Mgr. went and got me the 10 pin that I left and
gave it to me for a keepsake and I've still got it.
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I think he gave me the pin because they are going to put new pins in before the leagues start up in a few weeks. I got one off the pair I threw my 300 on last year because they put new pins in the next day. ( different house )
I've seen a pin get stuck in the ball return channel; it's not unheard of. Never known an alley to give a pin away, though.
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Don't see the big deal in giving a pin away. I'm sure some of you have seen a pin get hit and fly onto the lanes in front of the sweeper and someone has to go up and push the pin off the lane. Well it's kind of an unwritten rule here if you do that but the pin slides all the way down the lane to the approach then it's yours.
Yea, pin in ball return channel happens.Originally Posted by chrono00
Never seen a pin make it 60ft down lane to the approach though.
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I've had two 299 games at two different houses. One house the manager actually shut the lane down before the sweep could go so he could go get the pin. The other house wanted ten bucks for the pin. I told him very politely to have sex with himself. Karma shut that house down a year later.
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One of my buddies who owned a couple of bowling centers used to give away pins at times. He would put a marked pin (stinker pin looked like a skunk stripe )out for tournaments and if you got the strike when it came up you won cash and the pin. Back at the time he was doing that he said the pins cost him less than 10.00.
Pretty cool to find people still doing that.
Pretty Rare I imagine. I've seen me come part way down a few times
Only time I ever saw it make it all the way down was one night the pair we were on had ton of pin action, especially the right lane. We had half a dozen dead pins in the gutters by the end of the first game, and at some point in the second game a guy on the other team sent one all the way down to the approach.
Kinda related, we had a bowler, who is a monster, throw a 26 mph shot at a 10 pin, have his BALL come all the way back to him down the gutter.
that is pretty cool he gave you the pin after that had happen, just hope that your ball was not too messed up after that.
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