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bowling ball suddenly entered an optician's shop in Busan and the shop was severely damaged. A man in his 70s who was arrested by the police said he had rolled the ball the wrong way down the road.
Reporter Kang So-ra of KNN covered it.
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bowling ball rolls on a road in Busan.
The ball narrowly passes between citizens and vehicles crossing the crosswalk.
The bowling ball goes downhill with an incline of about 15 degrees, and the speed increases.
The ball, which was rolling down 200 meters down the hill at high speed, hit the jaw here and broke the window of the shop on the other side.
The bowling ball, weighing about 10 kg, only stopped after it had smashed the optician's display case and floor tiles.
A single rolled bowling ball caused property damage worth 1.5 million won.
Luckily, it was a holiday, so no one was in the store.
[Optical store owner: If it had been like it is now, people would have been hurt a lot. I'm glad I wasn't hurt.] As a
result of CCTV investigation, the police caught a man in his 70s who rolled a ball in a nearby park.
The man stated that he misrolled the bowling ball downhill.
[Park Byeong-gu/Busan Buk-gu Police Station Gupo Division Team Leader: I was sitting in the alley and playing, and there was a bowling ball next to me, so I rolled it out of curiosity… Elderly people should be especially careful (handle) such balls and round objects.]
The police said that A in his 70s had no plans to punish the victim as much as he made an agreement with the store.
However, the bowling ball that went downhill on the afternoon of the holiday almost caused a lot of casualties.
(Video coverage: Park Young-joon KNN)