WATCH: Valentine’s party gatecrashing – Zululand style
Members of the St Lucia Bowling Club were in for a shock during their Valentine's Day celebration
THE term ‘gatecrashing’ – the act of attending an invitation only event when not invited – took on a new meaning at the St Lucia Bowls Club at the weekend.
As members readied themselves for a special Valentine’s night game following a romantic candle-lit dinner, they were suddenly confronted by a gatecrasher… Zululand style – a heavyweight ‘intruder’ who, perhaps forlorn and looking to share in the love himself, saw the Valentine’s shindig as the perfect place to find comfort.
But instead of being embraced by goodwill, the hapless chap – a massive hippo bull – witnessed the bowls brigade beat a hasty, if disorderly, retreat to the club ‘stoep’.
According to David Lawson, members had just enjoyed a two course meal and a few drinks before taking to the greens to work off all those unwanted calories.
‘Instead of the normal evening floodlights, candles had been set up along two green rinks to provide romantic surroundings for the players,’ said Lawson. With someone forgetting to close the club gate, the lumbering guest obviously viewed this as an open invitation to stroll in and check out the festive scene just as the action was about to hot up.
Emergency evacuation orders were issued and players were, reluctantly some claimed, forced to imbibe calming liquid refreshments while scouting the enemy’s movements from the ‘trenches’.
No doubt feeling rejected, the hippo gave up after half an hour and left to find acceptance elsewhere.
By now more fired up, the ‘warriors’ returned to resume their battles on the greens. Whether their aim remained true after the ordeal and further medicinal treatment, could not be confirmed.
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