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Outside our High School classroom shop area doors, under an all steel overhead that is up about 13'-14' high, testing the practice bot P.U. & shooter and the shot ball hit a large "I" beam, shot straight back off & hard to the right, and right into sharp desert plant landscaping that have nice needle like straight and many very sharp pointed (think cactus needles), ends to them (we live in the desert south west).......Lots of tiny holes were resultant in the inner bladder...Lucky for us we had a few older 2' excersize ball bladders around and the outer cover wasn't actually damaged.

Now to just get some Shoe Goo (according to a post of others), and fix all those lil' tiny holes....But first an inflated trip to a bathtub to mark them all.

Affected punctured bladder is currently sitting very lonely on the shop floor mainly deflated (and referred to now as "the great white shrivelling game piece 2014"), as a gentle reminder to the students..."Stay far away from the local landscaping when testing either bot outside please, and expect the unexpected!"

Better question though I feel is...How many students and mentors have you had to remind not to sit on the only fairly expensive $52.00 game piece you have available, please? (10 so far here) Stretching out the cover in that manner, makes the ball quite out of round.