
9: The purple seats mystery
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Limitations of the Stadiums
There were loads of problems in cricket where they hit the ball out of the stadium and then it smashed off. They tried, they installed nets to try and stop it happening. So that's my theory is that this stadium is in some of the places where you can see the some way built to stop the ball leaving if you get an out of the park because it can damage property or stuff like that. I presume at some point people come back to their cars in the parking lot afterwards. Yeah. And just there's a dent and a baseball sat there and it's like, oh, well, yeah, that's does my insurance pay? No, of course. It's not really a
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