Comments on: Musings on a basketball rolling downhill

By: Todd Gremmels

Todd Gremmels — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:13:28 +0000

I once skiied down Lake Avenue.

Peace

By: Tinder

Tinder — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:58:22 +0000

I heard a dumbass bragging about rolling a bowling ball down Lake Avenue.

By: wildgoose

wildgoose — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:12:42 +0000

I saw this happen once, very accidentally, from a ball that made it out of the courts at lake and third that Barrett mentioned. One thing that impressed me was that although I had to wait for a light or two, we actually got to Superior street about the same time, it must have gotten stuck on something … or something.

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Paddle to the Sea was one of my favorite educational movies as a kid. I still love that story and once took a trip out to Toronto to see a friend and planned it in such a way that I would collect water from each of the great lakes on my way. I still have the water, haven’t figured out what to do with it yet, actually.

I wonder if someone could ever re-make that book into a movie today with the updates to the environment, etc fit into it? A lot has changed, some better, some worse, but much the same. This would be perfect year for it too, being the 50th anniversary of the seaway and all. Fat chance though, I bet Disney has those rights locked up tighter than a (insert metaphor/simile here)

By: jamie

jamie — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:10:40 +0000

I was on the bus when a tire from a car went by on 6th avenue east.

By: zra

zra — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:04:02 +0000

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/vid.....olling.itn

By: Gwanto

Gwanto — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:35:29 +0000

On a quiet, sunny Sunday morning about 5 years ago I was raced by a lone car tire (on a rim, non-flaming) down Lake Ave. The tire won and just kinda disappeared from my sight. I recall saying out loud, “Well there’s something you don’t see every day…” For me, it was a Perfect Duluth Day.

By: kokigami

kokigami — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:43:29 +0000

I don’t know if it is urban myth, but I have heard that, in the area below Enger, there is an illegal tire cemetery, and that kids years back would harvest these tires and light them on fire, to watch them roll down hill at night. I lived in much more civilized part of town back then.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:13:31 +0000

When I was a kid, it was tennis balls accidentally hit over the fence of the courts by the Cook County Court House in Grand Marais.

By: -Berv

-Berv — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:41:24 +0000

We don’t have this problem in the awesome city of Superior.

By: Lucie1970

Lucie1970 — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:33:16 +0000

I don’t have much to add other than it is posts like these that keeps me coming back to PDD.