Time for weirdness

[grunewar]

B13U AAU.

About 30 seconds into the game, B1 is taking the ball down court for the first time. TWEEEET!!!!! My partner (L) blows his whistle and I mean there is really no action going on. Me (T) ->

I go to his end of the court and there is white powder all over the floor....and the floor is mighty slippery!! This is the second game of the night and this powder certainly wasn't there the first game!

It turns out its talcum powder. And now we discover it on another part of the floor!!! COACH, bring a towel!

Me - who's got powder on?!

All players give the deer in the headlights look.

One kid says, "Ref, I think it's me." You think? You don't know if you're leaking powder all over the floor? C'mon!

Took us a few minutes to clean the floor.......and hose the kid down! Sheesh!

[BillyMac]

[Fritz]

Originally Posted by grunewar

B13U AAU.

About 30 seconds into the game, B1 is taking the ball down court for the first time. TWEEEET!!!!! My partner (L) blows his whistle and I mean there is really no action going on. Me (T) ->

I go to his end of the court and there is white powder all over the floor....and the floor is mighty slippery!! This is the second game of the night and this powder certainly wasn't there the first game!

It turns out its talcum powder. And now we discover it on another part of the floor!!! COACH, bring a towel!

Me - who's got powder on?!

All players give the deer in the headlights look.

One kid says, "Ref, I think it's me." You think? You don't know if you're leaking powder all over the floor? C'mon!

Took us a few minutes to clean the floor.......and hose the kid down! Sheesh!

Actually had that at a local HS BV game this year. Home fans wanted to imitate LeBron and tossed white powder which caused a huge cloud and left remnants all over one-half of the court. Even after sweeping there was still residue on that end for the first half until a halftime re-cleaning took care of the problem. Visitors complained it hampered their offense in the first half because they couldn't cut quickly to the basket and they got down by a good margin. Second half comeback wasn't enough to completely overcome the deficit. Lots of talk about protesting the game but I don't believe anything came of it.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Fritz

Actually had that at a local HS BV game this year. Home fans wanted to imitate LeBron and tossed white powder which caused a huge cloud and left remnants all over one-half of the court. Even after sweeping there was still residue on that end for the first half until a halftime re-cleaning took care of the problem. Visitors complained it hampered their offense in the first half because they couldn't cut quickly to the basket and they got down by a good margin. Second half comeback wasn't enough to completely overcome the deficit. Lots of talk about protesting the game but I don't believe anything came of it.

This talc was apparently (ahem) inside the young man's uniform to prevent chafing and as he walked about a bit he got it all over the place! It was very slick until wiped up, but surprisingly we had no incidents or complaints.

Originally Posted by grunewar

This talc was apparently (ahem) inside the young man's uniform to prevent chafing and as he walked about a bit he got it all over the place! It was very slick until wiped up, but surprisingly we had no incidents or complaints.

Sounds like this kid watched the old episodes of MASH. Check those out...references to using talc to prevent chafing during the Korean summers, or at least Colonel Potter would.

[grunewar]

B15U AAU game today. Mid-way through the 2nd half as the game is going on, I am T and notice ALL of the parents/spectators are getting out of the bleachers and walking down the side of the court (thankfully there was allot of room) to the far end of the gym. Me - It was one of the weirdest thing that ever happened to me - like everyone was leaving in the middle of the ongoing game! All I saw the custodian with the electronic, bleacher retraction device.

At the next TO I go to the table and said how odd that looked. They had no idea what was going on either.

At the end of the game I am approached by the custodian and I asked him, "What's up?"

He said, "Snakes."

Me -

Yep, someone reported seeing one and then another snake under the bleachers. So, they moved everyone to the other side of the gym.

As I departed the parking lot for home, animal control was pulling in. Justacoach will have to finish the story if he reads this as he was staying for other games....

It was bizarre.....

[force39]

I was working a game and when they opened up the doors
to the gym to cool it off a bat flew in. We had to delay about 15 min
until we could get it out of the gym.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by force39

I was working a game and when they opened up the doors to the gym to cool it off a bat flew in..

So this was a baseball game?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by force39

I was working a game and when they opened up the doors
to the gym to cool it off a bat flew in. We had to delay about 15 min
until we could get it out of the gym.

I went to camp down south this summer and one of the venues was a gym in a very old high school. On the last day of camp we had bat flying around the gym skimming the floor for flies. The games continued and the bat was not fazed one bit by the action going on around him.