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andresf91, on 28 December 2010 - 09:51 PM, said:

And then they say doing sports is healthy! Nah, bad joke.
But it's really strange, isn't it? I mean, did it really happen? It sounds too odd to be true.
How can a golf ball make a spark?

Harlot, on 31 December 2010 - 08:40 AM, said:

Ouch, I guess I am super late finding out about this one. I wonder how they know that the golf ball started the fire, and I wonder how the heck that happens. Was the golf ball hit so hard that it made a spark or something? I sure am happy that I don't live out there, because between the earth quakes, forest fires, and land slides, I am pretty sure that property and life insurance is extremely high out there. I guess some brilliant individual will have to create a fire proof golf ball now (lol).

It wasn't the ball its self that created the fire. When the guy swung his rod (I forget what it's called), it hit a rock, and that started the fire. But that's if I remember correctly. I do remember something about a rock.

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Yes, hitting the right kind of rock with something metal will definatly make a spark. It doesn't even have to be a flint rock. And with me around, no telling what kind of bonfire would be started! I did finally manage to burn off the last few little piles of debris in my flower bed without incidence, but while I was working on that hubby came along with his welding torches to work on cutting up an old hay baler we are hauling off for scrap metal, and he started a nice grass fire. Guess he's taking up my bad habits. At least we got it out before anything was burned up.