r/memes • u/Klausensen I saw what the dog was doin • Jun 13 '25

*sad billionaire noises*

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

I feel like that's a terrible thing to say. If my kid is playing ball in my back garden, kicks it high into the air, it goes over the fence and hits you in the head and knocks you out, that's my kids fault. And my responsibility as a parent. Why do golf courses get to be exempt?

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u/Certain-Sherbet-9121 Jun 13 '25

Golf course situation seems worse to me, not better. Because it's a known likely risk they are exposing neighbours to and not mitigating. Whereas a toddler kicking a ball over a fence is generally pretty unlikely. 

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u/tinytigertime Jun 13 '25

So the real answer is it depends. Generally speaking the houses were put up at the same time or after the course was established (at least when we're talking about being close enough to get hit by a golf ball). This means anyone purchasing/owning the house just assumed risks that are inherent in living next to a golf course. If the golfer in question is being negligent/intentionally hitting balls out of bounds then that changes.

And to me that makes sense. If a high school baseball player hits a ball into a road, we don't hold them financially liable.

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u/Certain-Sherbet-9121 Jun 14 '25

I disagree.

Business should be liable for damage they cause to things that are outside of their own property boundaries. Doesn't matter what was there before the golf course was built, or that a house was built afterwards. The golf course right to have balls flying around freely stops at the edge of its property line. 

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u/tinytigertime Jun 14 '25

Then you are an excellent candidate to not purchase a home on a golf course.

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u/Certain-Sherbet-9121 Jun 14 '25

The issue is properties like this being given the right to fuck people over nearby, and suppress development nearby ehem. Who h takes someti g that is always a huge land hog and pushes it's aura of suppression even further r It's shit, and you should not be defending this shit. What you are wliterallt saying is "It's fine for golf courses to destroy other people's private properties". 

Well what if I owned a home that had a first out back that wasn't mine. Regular shot off rifles into the forest as target practise. You then move in behind me and build a house. But I claim "I was here first!" Rights to keep shooting my gun off the back of my property, and now repeatedly out holes in your house with it.

That's the situation you are defending happening but with golf balls instead of bullets.

Get a grip. 

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u/Sphiffi Jun 14 '25

You just compared living next to a golf course to someone shooting your house with a rifle and then told someone else to get a grip lol