Funny & Crazy Darts Tales #2

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The Tales:

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" Tournament, Loretta Osgood, 8/1995

Best-Dressed in Blacksburg, J Robbie "Hood" Hickerson, 7/1995

"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" Tournament

by Loretta Osgood - August, 1995- Houston, Texas USA

There were about 45 people gathered for the weekly Sunday afternoon BDD at Sherlock's Baker Street Pub, an establishment located in a 2-story shopping center with the upstairs dart room opening onto a balcony.

Just before the draw was made a strange smell was noticed. Laughs all around about someone having thrown a "funny" cigarette in the waste basket. But the smell got stronger. "It's OK folks, said the barmaid, "I think there was a paper towel burning in the trash can."

But the smell got stronger...and the room got smoky. Really smoky, with solid curls of smoke obscuring the boards. Everyone started going out on the balcony between rounds for fresh air. Then sirens connected to great big red trucks sounded in the parking lot below.

Then a man (I think it was a man, you couldn't really tell, what with the big yellow coat and oxygen mask he was wearing) comes running into the bar and is startled to find the room packed full of people.

"People!", he yells through his mask, "What are you doing here? Don't you hear the sirens? See all this smoke? This building is on FIRE!"

A Darter yells back, "How close is it?"
Mr. Fireman answers, "Two doors down."

Darters ALL yell back, "Let us know when it gets closer! We're playing in a Darts tournament!"

The nice fireman shook his head and left, then came back with big fans to put in all the doorways & windows so we could breathe, and the tournament continued..!

Everyone not actually throwing or chalking stood on the balcony to breathe & watch the firemen drag hoses into the building, below and about 50 feet over. The darters at the boards kept asking... "are any flames coming this way yet?" The fire was eventually quelled, about the same time that the event ended.

During all this commotion, one darter, Hal Perry, threw his first-ever Ton80. But he couldn't see it... Not because it was so smoky that even the scorekeeper had to lean close to see ANY score! Nope, Hal wasn't bothered by the low (zero?) visibility because he had just had surgery on both of his eyes and was wearing bandages. Another darter stood behind his shoulder and would tell him where his darts landed, and he would adjust his throw accordingly. You know, he has never thrown another T80 to this day!

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