In 999,999 out of 1,000,000 occasions when a floating pollen pod deflects a rolling golf ball between you and the cup on a green in an international golf event, you're toast. This singular event would have taken on mythic proportions if it had affected the final result. However because the person striking the ball was the eventual champion, the event is but an amusing antidote.
The finger of instability did not create the avalanche of disaster that such events portend.
