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If you’ve ever spent time at a driving range, you know the setup: You grab your bucket of golf balls, find your spot, and settle in for some quiet, peaceful practice. But for one golfer, the most basic part of this process turned into a baffling encounter.
TikTok user Kaylyn (@kaylyn_noh) shared a video from her recent trip to the golf course, where she captured the moment a man nearly walked off with her bucket of balls.
The clip has been viewed more than 1.8 million times.
Man Gets Caught Almost Stealing Another Person’s Ball Bucket
It starts with a man casually walking into frame, bending over, and picking up a bucket of balls that clearly wasn’t his.
“When a random man just decides your bucket of balls is his,” Kaylyn wrote in the video’s text overlay.
As the man hoists the bucket, she stops him. “Oh, those are mine,” she says.
The man turns to her and asks, “These are whose?”
“Mine, sorry,” she replies.
He responded with a quick, “Yours? OK,” before he set the bucket back down and walked off—no apology, no explanation.
“Literally who else would it belong to?” Kaylyn added in the overlay.
In her caption, she questioned her own reaction, writing, “Why did I say sorry?”
Why Stealing A Ball Bucket Is A Big No-No
While there are somewhat harmless pranks on the course—like tossing marshmallows onto the green for a laugh—taking someone else’s bucket of balls isn’t cool at all.
Buckets aren’t free. At most driving ranges, people pay $10 or more for a bucket, and that cost often comes with an unspoken agreement: You leave other people’s buckets alone. Grabbing one goes beyond simple bad manners. You’re essentially taking something someone else paid for.
Commenters Are Enraged
Viewers didn’t hold back in the comments, expressing disbelief at the man’s behavior.
“The way he seemed annoyed that they were yours like.. sir get out,” one user wrote.
Another broke it down as a generational thing. “The old man tries to take something that isn’t his,” they wrote. “The actual owner of them apologizes to him. He in turn does not apologize for almost unknowingly stealing them and walks off.”
Others honed in on Kaylyn’s instinctive apology. “What I hate is that the lady said sorry… he did not,” one person commented. “WE APOLOGIZE way too much for literally just existing.”
“I been at a range a 1000 times and never seen anything like this,” a fourth added. “Why would you walk up and grab someone’s bucket?”
BroBible has reached out to Kaylyn via TikTok direct messages for comment.
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