Dog eats man’s Masters tickets, man pieces together puked-up scraps Seattleite Russ Berkman’s dream was to go to the Masters golf tournament, and his dream came true when he won the lottery for four passes to Wednesday’s practice round. But his dream was almost shattered recently when he came home to find his Masters tickets missing. This is not Sierra. Nor is it even a Swiss mountain dog. But it is an image of a dog holding a piece of paper in its mouth. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) But he did find paper scraps on his floor. Which meant only one thing. His dog, Sierra, had eaten all four of Berkman’s precious tickets. However, as Berkman told KJR Seattle radio Tuesday morning, the story doesn’t end there. He was determined to go to the Masters, and there was only one way to get the tickets back. Well, only one way to get the tickets back undigested. “First thing I do is I panicked,” Berkman told KJR. He called up his girlfriend and said, “‘I don’t know what the hell to do.’ And she says, ‘Well you gotta make the dog puke.’” In a stroke of pure genius — well, pure something — Berkman decided to feed Sierra hydrogen peroxide, inducing her to vomit, he told KJR. (Don’t worry: Hydrogen peroxide is safe for dogs to drink.) And vomit the Swiss mountain dog did. Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits a tee shot during a practice round Tuesday before the 2012 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. (Rory McIlroy/Getty Images) “Quite frankly, she didn’t really have much else in her stomach but that, so it worked out,” Berkman said. “I grabbed a spatula, put (the vomit) into a Ziploc baggie and brought it inside on my kitchen counter, and started, I guess, either a ‘CSI’ or surgical-type process to figure out what was going to be salvageable, if anything.” Amazingly, with each ticket in about 20 vomit-covered pieces, Berkman was able to put them back together like the world’s most disgusting jigsaw puzzle. “We got about 70 percent of all four tickets put together,” he said. “It took about, I don’t know — about three cocktails deep was how long it took to put this thing all together.” That’s three cocktails for Berkman, not three cocktails for Sierra. Perhaps even more amazingly, when he contacted Augusta National Golf Club to explain the situation — My dog ate my Masters tickets! — the Masters folks believed him. They reprinted Berkman’s tickets and have them waiting for him in Georgia. KJR has photos of Sierra, the puke and the tickets on the radio station’s website. Visit seattlepi.com for more Seattle news. Contact Nick Eaton at nickeaton@seattlepi.com or on Twitter as @njeaton. Posted By: nickeaton@seattlepi.com (Nick Eaton) ( Email ) | Apr 05 at 9:23 am http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/20...-tickets-man-pieces-together-puked-up-scraps/
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 Masters Nightmare What happens when a man returns from the store to find that his dog has EATEN his once-in-a-lifetime MASTERS tickets? Seattle area resident Russ Berkman joined Mitch this morning to re-tell the sobering story. AUDIO CLIP Below are the post-dog-vomit pictures. Will Russ get in? Stay tuned... Read more: http://www.sportsradiokjr.com/pages/Mitch_in_the_Morning.html?article=9985184#ixzz1rGiPjrpp
Oh my gosh! I don't know if I'd EVER be able to put puked up scraps of anything back together, no matter how important it was! Ick! Kudos to that guy! I sure hope he's able to get in with those! Would be terrible if he wasn't able to after all he did to put them back together.
I guess they believed the guy.....he must've had some sort of receipt or verification that he bought the tickets.....I'm pretty sure they must be expensive.
Oh wow. My eyes completely skipped that part. LOL Thanks for telling me what my eyes refused to read for some strange reason.
I would have so done the same thing. The two funniest things I recall which could have turned out badly-one was where Dixie ate a few remotes. She'd go outside and poo, and the rain would wash the poo away and leave behind a pile of numbers on the ground lol.(buttons) Then Chocy has a qtip fetish, he actually sits & begs when he sees you using them. Once i bought colored ones (pastels) and he somehow raided the bathroom garbage and ate them all. All his piles of poo (which look like mountains anyways) had a colored qtip sticking out the tops of them. Like flags somebody who hiked up the mountain planted to show that they were there. The meter reader even had a joke about that one. There were pry 9 piles of poo over the days all spread across the yeard with little colored "flag poles" sticking out of them !!!
Better puke then poop, Kali has a very bad habit of eating my wallets, she seems to get at least one every year. And she just recently decided that the drywall in the kitchen is also tasty.
The worse Karma has eaten was part of the dashboard in my van, and being the materials have a lot of chemicals in them, I gave her hydrogen peroxide to get her to puke the stuff out of her system. Now, when people see my dashboard, the first thing they ask is "What happen to your dashboard?" No one believes me the dog ate it!
I guess they are I didn't even know you could buy tickets, I thought it was invite only. I use to work in Augusta.
Funny, I thought of this thread friday. Chocy was chewign some piece of paper under the table that morning and I just picked it up and threw it away, of course whatever it was, was only a corner left.....Later that night, my hubby has threw his back out bad, and I had a script for some pain pills I wanted to fill for him....I searched high and low for that script. I had JUST goten it for him last Sunday when he about lost an eye from the hospital-when I took him....so I knew it had to be close by. I even dug 3 days worth of garbage apart! So, then I though OMGosh I Better go thru Chocys poop-then wondered if I did find it, how would I explain it to the pharmacist??? OMGosh it was a horrible experience, but, I found it-it was in the medicine cabinet lol.....Thankfully!!
I've mentioned Karma has eaten a part of my dashboard in my last post on this thread. Here are some of the damages she's done to my van:
^^^^^^Is why my dogs dont ride in my car Between the nails....and what have you, my car would be torn to pieces-they ride in hubbys
