Man hurled 3,000 golf balls into Calif. park to honor dead golfers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A man who says he hurled thousands of golf balls into Joshua Tree National Park for more than a year to honour deceased golfers will be explaining his tribute to a federal magistrate.
Park rangers cited 57-year-old Douglas Jones for abandoning property, littering and feeding wildlife, The Desert Sun reported. Park spokesman Joe Zarki said Wednesday that Jones tossed some 3,000 golf balls from his vehicle.
Jones also scattered a few tennis balls and park literature and left fruit and vegetables along park roads. Jones says rangers spent 370 hours cleaning up, at a cost of $9,000.
Finally spotted in action last month, Jones allegedly told rangers he threw the golf balls to leave his mark and honour deceased golfers. The food was for stranded hikers.
When are people going to understand, people grieve in different ways. Maybe your way of dealing with the lots of dead golfers this country turns out every year is to ignore the issue or self medicate, but this guy feels the need to throw 3,000 golf balls into a national park. This guy was even nice enough to dump some old food out for stranded hikers. If I were a hiker and I was stranded in the woods, all I would want is a three-day old fried shrimp po' boy. This guy is get railroaded.
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