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Old Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:52pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Had a "similar" event last night....

A3 has the ball in the corner and starts to drive along the endline.....

Something that sounds like a odd whistle sounds. I'm puzzled, my partner is puzzled, the players react.....1/2 of them stop playing. The shooter takes another dribble or two and pulls up with a lazy toss at the basket. B rebounds that ball.

It was the fire alarm.

Hmm......what to do. The ball isn't technically dead but it did resemble a whistle and the players reacted as if it was.

We declared the ball dead at the time of the sound and gave it back to A where they were when the sound occurred.

B wasn't too happy about it.
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