Furthest you've ever sent the cue ball on a break?

HeLLFiSH said:
The place where I played at had pool tables near bowling lanes. I broke once, cue ball popped up, bounced on the floor onto the bowling alley floor passed a lane, went down the 2nd lane gutter, I ran to catch it before it went down to the back, slipped and fell backwards, but still manage to stop it.
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I remember you grabbing cue balls that I put all the way down the bowling alley lanes, into the machines. Thankfully the bowling alley wasn't on. I wonder what kind of damage a cue ball could cause?

FYI, they gave away all the bowling equipment now, shoes & balls, to whoever wanted it. They didn't have shoes in my size :frown:
 
Cuebacca said:
One time, my cue ball jumped off the table on my break and hit my opponent square in the head. Who knows how far it could have gone if she hadn't stopped it. :)
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Had this exact thing happen when I was playing a buddy, except it hit him in a different head ;)

Happened TWICE that day, after the first one you'd think he wouldn't stand behind the rack anymore.

After remembering this story I've realized I better start working hard on controlling my break :)
 
md5key said:
Had this exact thing happen when I was playing a buddy, except it hit him in a different head ;)

Happened TWICE that day, after the first one you'd think he wouldn't stand behind the rack anymore.

After remembering this story I've realized I better start working hard on controlling my break :)
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LOL. What a masochist! Funny, with that girl, I warned her to get out of the way, and she only moved like 1 foot back. The Pool Gods had to teach her a lesson I guess. LOL. :p
 
md5key said:
What's the furthest you've ever sent the cue ball off of a break?

I had one today where I didn't hit the head ball square and sent the cue ball 4 tables away, down a bunch of stairs, and into the basement of the pool hall. I felt like an idiot, but all-in-all it was pretty funny. :)
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Out the poolroom door and rolling down the street - no kidding.

I have broken a few lights in my day as well.

Lastly, I split a guys eyebrow with a stray break-shot. In my defense, he was standing right at the foot of the table and refused to move back. So be it!
 
Cuebacca said:
One time, my cue ball jumped off the table on my break and hit my opponent square in the head. Who knows how far it could have gone if she hadn't stopped it. :)
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I saw that happen where the breaker broke and the cue ball hit the victim on the next table over squarely on the side of his head while he was stroking. As I recall it, the tables were perpendicular to each other too so he was 4 or so feet away from the rack. Ouch! :eek: He shook it off though.
 
Winner!!

TheBook said:
My son graduated from college and moved all of his dorm stuff into the garage and basement. One night a bunch of us were playing pool. The CB jumped off of the table and into never never land of the stuff being stored in the dark corners. We looked for it and then gave up and decided to use another one.

We live in Michigan and he got a job in Chicago. Rented a apartment and stayed there for about 2 years and never unpacked a lot of his junk. He then transferred to N. Carolina and did the same. About 3 years ago he move to Columbus, Oh. Finally bought a house and unpacked most of his junk. While doing so guess what he found? The cue ball that we "lost".

I didn't see it go that far and it didn't roll that far but indirectly it traveled about 2000 miles after jumping off of the table before we found it.
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Winner, hands down!! :eek: 2K miles
 
there was a strip club i was playin in one time and i broke and shatterered a mirror behind the dancer ... does that count lol....... darn mirror cost me $300 :mad: the striper cost me nada..lol :thumbup:
 
LoGiC said:
I remember you grabbing cue balls that I put all the way down the bowling alley lanes, into the machines. Thankfully the bowling alley wasn't on. I wonder what kind of damage a cue ball could cause?

FYI, they gave away all the bowling equipment now, shoes & balls, to whoever wanted it. They didn't have shoes in my size :frown:
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The bowling equipment was so old it probably wouldve done good, the cue ball lost/stuck inside probably would have expedited the retirement of the bowling lanes. Didnt you make a break like that off table 5 in order to get the cue ball down there too? My slip and fall to catch the cue ball happened my freshman year.

Thats just typical of the her being manager to give away stuff it could unload for some dough...
 
A few months ago, I was playing in a 8-ball tournament.

While breaking from the end rail, the cue ball completely flew over the rack past the end of the table and hit the wall about 5 feet away. I missed hitting my opponent by inches.

Gotta work on my aim a bit. :cool:
 
Not so much distance, but some interesting randomness.

I was at Fast Eddies in Capitola, CA and saw an errant break shot shatter a beer glass that a passing waitresses was carrying. It was her first week there.

What are the odds.

JonnyB
 
I broke as a waitress walked by once, and hit her square in the chest.

It's pretty hard to apologize after the damage is done...
 
i sent one down a tiled hallway, past the two bathrooms, under the pinballs and broke a window once. true story too. only thing is i cracked the window and didn't really break it, but it sounded better like that.
 
To the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey":

On top of my Gold Crown,
All covered in green,
I shot my poor cue ball,
through the window screen.

It rolled down the driveway,
Past Jimmy and Pete,
and then my poor cue ball
rolled into the street.

It fell in the gutter,
And swished in the ooze,
My cue ball was nasty,
Like Chia Ching Wu’s.

It fell through the grating,
And made a big splash,
And then my poor cue ball
Was nothing but trash.

Last I saw my cue ball,
It was not happy,
I waved to my cue ball,
As it drifted to sea.

So if you practice breaking,
Don’t play while you buzz,
And don’t hit your cue ball,
Like Hillbilly does.
 
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I don't know the exact distance since I'm not sure how far it rolled, but I sent the ball at least 25-27 feet through the air.
 
I was playing on a bar table and jumped the cue ball off the table and

out the front door of the pool hall. This wouldnt have been so bad if the

place wasnt called "Hillside Billiards" :eek:

It rolled down the middle of the street for 3 blocks and stopped on the bridge at the bottom.
 
paksat said:
Far and away the most amazing thing had to be last week when I hit an object ball way to hard. It rattled so hard as it hit the tits of the pocket that it actually jumped up on the side of the rail just an inch above the pocket and there it just spun in perfect balance for a good 5 seconds before slowly falling into the pocket....
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Now that is naught short of amazing. Haha. I'd love to see that! :thumbup:
 
This far

How far did I send the cue ball? Ninety eight feet six inches.

Back in the day, when milkmen wore stripped bib overalls, I learned the basics of the green felt at the local bowling alley where that milkman moonlighted as the night clerk. Down the alley flow the cue ball, it hit a bump, a scream was heard, a man was killed by a low flying . . . oh sorry, that was the “shit wagon” story. I did send a cue ball off the table across the floor, down three steps to the bowling lanes floor, into the third lane, across the second spot, and watched it weave by the head pin and through a seven-ten split. Nothing to do but retrieve the ball, so into the bowels I went on my belly swiping the remaining pins aside, swimming my way to the cue ball. I stretched out, and with figure tips on the ball, heard a mechanical sound, then felt the full force of the pin setting machine pressing on to my back. I yelled. I heard the manic laughter of the milkman, then the machine lifted off my back. Pissed, I chased the milkman out side into the parking lot, turned him upside down and shook the change out of his pockets. So help me!
 
I've witnessed a few beauties in my day. The best was in New Bedford, MA. The cue ball struck the one in dead flight and next struck a clock, some thirty to forty feet away at least twenty feet high.

I also was sitting beside a table at the Town Line Ten Pin in Malden MA. and the cue-ball glanced off the one-ball on table one. It left the table, headed in my direction, traveling at a high rate of speed. Somehow, someway, I caught it in flight.
 
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