The rule isn't even vague in this respect: of course the shooter may call a foul on himself. That's the point.
The other aspect is that rules should be read in accordance with the corpus. Does everyone think they fulfill the minimum requirement of contacting an object ball with the cue ball, then pocketing an object ball or driving any ball to a cushion when they shoot said type of shot.
What happens in reality is this: shooter sees ball is frozen. Shooter may know the rule, and because no one else called the ball frozen, decides to take advantage of the situation and rolls the cue ball up to it. Shooter knows no ball was driven to a rail after contact, and couldn't possibly claim he saw this happen, thus what he just did was get away with something that's a loophole in the rule set rather than in accordance with either the corpus (the complete set) of the rules, nor the spirit of the game (rolling the ball up to a ball is a legal shot in Snooker, but every pool player knows it's not a pool shot, except if played as an intentional foul in disciplines where there is no ball in hand for not fulfilling the minimum requirement, such as in Straight Pool etc.).
Greetings from Switzerland, David.
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„J'ai gâché vingt ans de mes plus belles années au billard. Si c'était à refaire, je recommencerais.“ – Roger Conti
The other aspect is that rules should be read in accordance with the corpus. Does everyone think they fulfill the minimum requirement of contacting an object ball with the cue ball, then pocketing an object ball or driving any ball to a cushion when they shoot said type of shot.
What happens in reality is this: shooter sees ball is frozen. Shooter may know the rule, and because no one else called the ball frozen, decides to take advantage of the situation and rolls the cue ball up to it. Shooter knows no ball was driven to a rail after contact, and couldn't possibly claim he saw this happen, thus what he just did was get away with something that's a loophole in the rule set rather than in accordance with either the corpus (the complete set) of the rules, nor the spirit of the game (rolling the ball up to a ball is a legal shot in Snooker, but every pool player knows it's not a pool shot, except if played as an intentional foul in disciplines where there is no ball in hand for not fulfilling the minimum requirement, such as in Straight Pool etc.).
Greetings from Switzerland, David.
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„J'ai gâché vingt ans de mes plus belles années au billard. Si c'était à refaire, je recommencerais.“ – Roger Conti
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