I'd bet my cue the guy was drunk and if you got his license plate and called the cops it would be more than a class b misdemeanor.
It is funny to see so many people saying whatever you do, don't get the cops involved.
I first started playing pool in the 60's in a small town in Northwest Iowa and if any outsider had done what this dirtbag did he would have needed divine intervention to get out of the county without being stopped and by the time they finished with him and confiscated his car and all of his cash and put his sorry ass on the next train out of town they wouldn't have to wonder whether he learned his lesson.
He broke a kid's cheap cue in a moment of rage. Stupid? Of course.
But that's all he did. He'll get punished for it without cops being involved, if this thread is any indication. You're saying that the cops should get involved and take his car, his freedom, his cash so there'd be justice? How's that justice? Who's gonna pay for the train ticket? Who is going to pay for the kid's new cue? Who's gonna pay for the police to do that?
And this is now, not the 1950's Iowa. Cops are no longer friends of the public, but thugs for the state. Hell, the kid would be the first to be arrested, then the hall owner for child endagerment, then close down the place for gambling, then extort the owner so he can stay open, etc. etc. Those risks nowadays just aren't worth calling the cops, imho.
Jeff Livingston