Can I get a little testifying

I thwacked the tip on the floor of one cue and caused the tip to pop off. So I started using my sneaky. A little while later I thwacked the tip of it on the floor (slow learner) and the shaft broke.

I wasn't even all that upset, it's something I'd done before but caught it just wrong on the floor. Or else it's cumulative damage. I don't do it anymore.

My buddy beat the shìt out of a golf cart with his club. Had to buy the new fender and put it on himself. Now whenever he misses a shot and is pissed we defuse it by joking "where's a golf cart. Golf cart needed table 10."
 
I snapped the shaft on a Meucci about 10 years ago,but the best 1 I have seen is my buddy was splitting a tourny with a friend and missed an easy 8b (they were just playing for show)and slammed the butt of his cue on the floor and ruined the butt cap ,we looked at him and started laughing ,he felt like an a$$ and looked liked 1
 
I had a flat tire on my original Shelby Cobra once and took it to the crusher.

The car had been warned.
 
Broke a cue in two...or three pieces once. But the time I really got PO'd at myself ..missed an easy out for the win. Walked back to the bar and asked this dude twice my size if he would knock the s##t out of me because if I did it I might hurt myself.
 
jimmyg said:
This was a fun thread....Any equipment abusers out there? 🏓🏸🏒🎱🏹🛼
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I think we've all been frustrated enough in real life to break stuff. I threw my fone into the wall just last year. :ROFLMAO:

Pool's not that important anymore. I imagine guys like Strickland or Sigel would snap since it's their real life.
 
jimmyg said:
I just read Boro Nut's thread about Strikland breaking his cue during the Mosconi Cup and my first thought was "what a jerk". But then I immediately remembered smashing my own $250 Yamaha tennis racquet on the court about ten years ago. Speaking about jerks!

Well, I confessed. And now I'm wondering how many others here have thrown or broken their cues, tennis racquets, thrown their baseball glove into the river, or broke their TV because the reception was bad.

Come on, anyone feel like testifying?

Jim
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chucked a golf club or 2,

but never beyond range of retrieval, i.e. in a lake or pond.
 
straightline said:
I think we've all been frustrated enough in real life to break stuff. I threw my fone into the wall just last year. :ROFLMAO:

Pool's not that important anymore. I imagine guys like Strickland or Sigel would snap since it's their real life.
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What happened? Did you miss a call? ;)
 
When I was starting to play, there was a kid that would tilt his face off and break house cues (yes, plural). After he was done with the one he was playing with, he'd pull others off the wall just to snap em.. He'd get banned, come back and pay all damages apologizing profusely and swearing he wouldn't do it again. He danced that dance no less than three times that I'm aware of before the ban stuck.

He looked like such an ass that I never had to go through the learning experience first hand. Thanks to him, I won't even throw a 5cent chalk.
 
I was working for the things I wanted by the time I was knee high to a short grasshopper. When I was tempted to smash something I saw the dollar signs, shut me right down.

There was this kid in the pool hall, must have been close to ten years younger than me! Yeah, it has been awhile. Anyway, he was one of those that liked to kick up a fuss when he lost and he would smash his shaft on the table rail every couple three weeks trying to convince everyone else and maybe himself that he was really a great player just having a bad night.

In six or eight months I had seen or heard him smash a half dozen shafts or more. Who does he think he is fooling? I was wondering if he was buying shafts bulk. He was a couple tables over from me when I saw him with a nice two handed grip, come back way over his head and bend over coming down! The cue was whistling going through the air!

A little too much body english and he hit above the joint instead of below it and the butt exploded! For the next ten minutes he had people helping him pick up ivory and other components. I would have liked to have been at the cue builder's when he brought the cue in inside a small bag to see about it getting fixed. It hadn't been a cheap cue either!

Hu
 
straightline said:
Dubious but funny. :ROFLMAO:
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Ya never know! In the early seventies I had a sixty=five 2+2. A kid that was a customer had a 65 GT-350. It had been in a high salt area and the body was shot. He had bought it for $125! Had he decided to sell it to me I would have scrapped it to put the disk brakes, bubble quarter windows, and interior goodies on my 2+2. Sounds crazy now.

The story above does seem less likely if it was a Cobra that predated the Mustang but stranger things have happened! I had a '69 428 Super Cobra Jet Torino. 125 or 150 of them made to be legal to race. Never did like the car much and wasn't too upset when I barrel rolled it for a city block or two when a tire rolled off the rim. Two or three left the last I knew and even decades ago they were valued at about a hundred or hundred and fifty thousand. I paid eleven hundred for it in overall good shape. Needed a good buffing after I barrel rolled it though!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Ya never know! In the early seventies I had a sixty=five 2+2. A kid that was a customer had a 65 GT-350. It had been in a high salt area and the body was shot. He had bought it for $125! Had he decided to sell it to me I would have scrapped it to put the disk brakes, bubble quarter windows, and interior goodies on my 2+2. Sounds crazy now.

The story above does seem less likely if it was a Cobra that predated the Mustang but stranger things have happened! I had a '69 428 Super Cobra Jet Torino. 125 or 150 of them made to be legal to race. Never did like the car much and wasn't too upset when I barrel rolled it for a city block or two when a tire rolled off the rim. Two or three left the last I knew and even decades ago they were valued at about a hundred or hundred and fifty thousand. I paid eleven hundred for it in overall good shape. Needed a good buffing after I barrel rolled it though!

Hu
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i broke shafts in my early years. but then they were just ten bucks a piece. they break with a light tap on the rail.

but also was a way of getting out the door if in trouble, as when they broke it turned the stick into a sharp spear.
no one wanted to face that.

there are enough stories of guys breaking an expensive cue and just sticking it in the garbage and someone getting to take it home and then fix it up.
ive seen a few palmers and balabuskas flying across the pool room into a wall. as well as pool balls and chalk.

a good way to get titlest wall cues in rooms that wouldn't sell them was to use one to play with and break it. then they made you buy it for 5 bucks or so. as you are going to convert it anyway.
 
maha said:
a way of getting out the door if in trouble, as when they broke it turned the stick into a sharp spear.
no one wanted to face that.
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In my early days of gambling, young and dumb, I broke house cues by the dozen, not mad, to get out the door. The cues weren't but twelve bucks and I would have a twenty in my shirt pocket to throw on the bar or counter as I left. I was usually welcome back in a few weeks or months.

The only one I ever used was the first I broke. A man that outweighed me a hundred pounds tried to strongarm rob me. I broke the stick and jammed it in his face in one motion. Opened up his cheek from the corner of his mouth to his ear and it was a deep gouge. Never saw him again. I figured if I did at least I would recognize him!

After I smartened up I don't think I broke three sticks in another ten years. Sometimes the situation was beyond my control. I carried a lot of money sometimes just being on the road and unwilling to leave it in my vehicle.

Hu
 
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