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[Erics626]

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[Ryan Dognaux]

Anyone care to share what happened??

[KTorak]

High velocity poof ball accident?

[Erics626]

This is what happens when team members get to excited with a second place medals. A team member from 461 got a bit too excited and started swinging their medal in circles above their head. The medal promptly broke off and shattered a window from 461. Team 1018 was kind enough to provide reinforcements to their alliance partners.

[Dan Petrovic]

Hahah that's the greatest story I've ever heard

[SURVIVORfan44]

Gracious Professionalism at its best.

[Clark Gilbert]

Oh wow! I'm sure Purdue will be really happy about this.

[Chriszuma]

Originally Posted by Clark Gilbert

Oh wow! I'm sure Purdue will be really happy about this.

Haha, that is pretty good. We were in two GM vans last year traveling to a regional and almost ended up looking like that. Apparently the windows in their "factory vehicles" aren't entirely installed, and when you try to open them they try to escape.

[Arkorobotics]

ohh it's a Chevy.. that explains that

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Erics626

This is what happens when team members get to excited with a second place medals. A team member from 461 got a bit too excited and started swinging their medal in circles above their head. The medal promptly broke off and shattered a window from 461. Team 1018 was kind enough to provide reinforcements to their alliance partners.

Well, there's always two ways to learn physics:
1) Through textbooks with classroom instruction, and
2) Through experience

The first option usually has less violent lessons.

[Travis Hoffman]

Wow, I saw that pic, and before I read the caption, I thought you must have parked at the Ampco parking lot across the street from the Wolstein Center at the corner of Carnegie and East 18th. I say this because on Friday night, four cars were found to have their windows smashed out and articles stolen from within, including the car of one of Team 48's Collegiate Mentors. This is the same lot from which another 48 mentor's van was stolen in 2002 at the Buckeye Regional. All of these crimes were committed in broad daylight while the regional was in action. The very helpful CSU policemen we flagged down to help us said that this kind of crime was an epidemic in the city, one fueled by drugs. I'm sure regional organizers and the City of Cleveland Chamber of Commerce are thrilled to have me mention this to thousands of potential paying visitors in future seasons, but visitors need to know the risks they take by parking in these lots.

Don't ever pay to park in any unsupervised Ampco lot near the arena. There are CSU police patrolled lots and fully monitored lots around where you pay a bit more for better peace of mind. I parked in a $5.00 attendant-on-duty lot on the other side of the arena on Saturday, and there were no problems.

[Kyle Love]

This is what happens when Genia frolics a little too much.

[Matt Hynson]

This just goes to show that you always need your handy-dandy roll of duct tape at all times... you never know when someone might need to tape some foam-board over a shattered window