A Perth man has paid the price for ignoring correct hailstone etiquette this morning and posted sizable ice balls without including a golf ball for scale.
“Where’s the golf ball, you muppet”, one commenter said. While another claimed that they could really be any size and without a golf ball next to them they were completely meaningless and he wouldn’t wipe his arse with the post.
One commenter got so angry at the lack of golf ball for scale that he entered the man’s DMs and really got stuck into him. We spoke to the poster who told The Times,
“Yeah this bloke told me that he was going to salt my earth so nothing would grow, then called my lawn shit and said that if he saw me he’d cross the street in disgust”
We spoke to a Perth storm expert who told The Times that in this town, if your hailstones aren’t golf ball sized they are nothing. Adding,
“The cultural practice started many years ago but the events of 2010 really cemented the need to refer to hailstones in relation to golf balls as critical to WA culture. This man simply wasn’t thinking and it was good he was hounded off social media. We won’t have to suffer the indignity of seeing hailstones out of context again”
Of course, there is one important caveat to the golf ball rule. If you have sufficient blanket coverage of a yard or street then the requirement can be dismissed.
We spoke to punter who posted such a photo and was met with amazement and awe. He told The Times,
“I was pretty worried, I won’t lie, you always hear about hailstones being as big as golf balls and I knew my hail missed that mark by several cms however I did think the winter wonderland effect was noteworthy”
It turns out it was.
Let this serve as a warning to all budding social media posters in the field of hail.