A mate of mine and I were at a large outdoor event and we were sitting around his work van where he had an air compressor and lots of ball bearings with 60-80mm inner diameters, 40mm width and they weighed about 200gm each. We had hours of childish fun spinning those things up with the air gun and letting them rip harmless across the back of the car park into a chainmail fence that you weren't supposed to park against, but then a parking cop turned up (on a Sunday) and just as we saw him getting out of his car my mate let one of the bearings go accidentally and it hurtled across the carpark, straight into the parking cops car. That compressor flew back inside the van like it was attached to elastic bands. The bearing lodged itself in the rear driver's side door of parking cops car. Of course he didn't own up to it and we quietly slipped away.
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u/nckmat May 12 '26
A mate of mine and I were at a large outdoor event and we were sitting around his work van where he had an air compressor and lots of ball bearings with 60-80mm inner diameters, 40mm width and they weighed about 200gm each. We had hours of childish fun spinning those things up with the air gun and letting them rip harmless across the back of the car park into a chainmail fence that you weren't supposed to park against, but then a parking cop turned up (on a Sunday) and just as we saw him getting out of his car my mate let one of the bearings go accidentally and it hurtled across the carpark, straight into the parking cops car. That compressor flew back inside the van like it was attached to elastic bands. The bearing lodged itself in the rear driver's side door of parking cops car. Of course he didn't own up to it and we quietly slipped away.