Toadshot
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6K views, almost 200 posts. Blows me away, trash imo. This site is better than that….
File this one in the we don’t give a f file….
Fred “Scooter” Goodman is a thief. Here’s how he stole from me:
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File this one in the we don’t give a f file….
I mean, that sucks, but...
...that has to be one of the biggest bonehead moves I have ever read on here... I have read some really ridiculous things (like a guy buying a second table because he couldnt get a good break on original table). I would actually classify lending Scooter (practically a stranger and a notorious gambler) your cue more ridiculous.
...that has to be one of the biggest bonehead moves I have ever read on here... I have read some really ridiculous things (like a guy buying a second table because he couldnt get a good break on original table). I would actually classify lending Scooter (practically a stranger and a notorious gambler) your cue more ridiculous.
If I did loan out a gift from my wife and it disappeared, you could be assured I'd have a brand new one with the same dings the old one had post haste...
Badpenguin
Well-known member
My first bike was a Yamaha MOTO, with the tube forks and shocks. Man I loved that bike, but it weighed 5,000 pounds! I hated the bike because my older brother got a motorcycle, proceeded to break his leg while riding it, so my parents got me this shock bike instead, they never bought another motorcycle for either of us. Traded that beast for a Rampar R10 and I must have put 50,000 miles on that thing. The long cranks were awesome. It was really heavy also but that thing could take some abuse. Wish I had somehow kept both of them.
I rode a little bit of offroad motorcycle just playing. My brother had left a 350 Harley behind when he joined the army. One day I was jumping a half height levee after watching Evel Knievel in a movie. Thought it was pretty cool using the near side of the levee as a ramp and the far side as a landing ramp. Just past the far side of the levee was a big dip, maybe twenty feet wide or more. No problem putting the back wheel down first on the "down ramp". I kept getting a little braver and a little faster. The side of the levee was pretty close to the angle of the jump so it only took a small miscalculation to be a major fubar.
Bound to happen, I jumped over the far side of the levee and landed in the dip. Burst both front fork tubes and one rear shock. Hurt a lot but I didn't fall so I kept on riding and hoped dad hadn't seen me. We hauled everything in his van. He saw me but it didn't look that bad although I had fallen almost straight down fifteen or twenty feet! I did cool my jets on the jump after that.
I was at the high banked half mile short track when a guy was jumping about a dozen cars, morons putting Corvettes and shit in line for him to jump over. The amazing thing, he set his ramps up on the track itself so they leaned mightily to the side. The ramps were only about two feet wide! When he finally went for it he made the jump like driving on the sidewalk. Still ranks as one of the damnedest things I have ever seen, landing on that two foot ramp heavily slanted to the low side. Landing on a two foot wide ramp would have been amazing all by itself, the side slant seemed to make it look like suicide. I have seen longer jumps, never one that seemed more dangerous.
Hu
You run with the dogs...you gonna get fleas.
One year I helped out Russian Kenney with a ride from Super Billiards ... went and grabbed breakfast at a diner on me. No problem. Next day when he's playing some stupid game he asks to borrow a hundred. Sure.
Then he ducks me for the last day or 2 of SBE. Bro, what kid of scumbag cons someone out of $100.
When I got home I call him. Kenny, go fuck yourself. Take your wife to dinner on me and buy your kid a pair of shoes. You obviously need it more than me. He threatened me....and every year since when I see him at SBE, he does nothing.
The only people who deserve your loyalty are those who never make you question theirs.
One year I helped out Russian Kenney with a ride from Super Billiards ... went and grabbed breakfast at a diner on me. No problem. Next day when he's playing some stupid game he asks to borrow a hundred. Sure.
Then he ducks me for the last day or 2 of SBE. Bro, what kid of scumbag cons someone out of $100.
When I got home I call him. Kenny, go fuck yourself. Take your wife to dinner on me and buy your kid a pair of shoes. You obviously need it more than me. He threatened me....and every year since when I see him at SBE, he does nothing.
The only people who deserve your loyalty are those who never make you question theirs.
Flakeandrun
Well-known member
It's sad we live in a world where we cannot trust even friends with our belongings...
Whether in my hometown, or where I live now, thankfully, I am surrounded by people who I would happily trust with my belongings, and I have been trusted with theirs.
Hope you get it back, and I hope that doesn't stop you from trusting people in your community.
If you can't trust them they aren't friends, they are acquaintances. I think I have said it in this very thread, I thoroughly enjoyed the company of the con men and shysters. I never made the mistake they were friends though. Some tried to get over on me for years, they hated thinking there was somebody they couldn't get over on. I watched them get over on other people for amounts large and small so I wasn't letting them have a chance to get over on me!
I was known to drink a bit, maybe even two bits. A couple of small time hustlers would cheat at cards or dice but I wouldn't play. Pool was my game. They figured they had me when I was so drunk I couldn't stand. Naah, I had a lot of experience playiing drunk I am sorry to say. They were first of all hustlers not pool players and it took a pool player to beat me even when I was drunk.
Hu
Cleveland_Rocks
Member
Most people in the current Cleveland, Ohio pool scene are good people, and not thieves. Speaking for the 9 foot table community, I'm not aware of one person who I would think would steal a cue from someone.
I got a Hutch Pro Racer in 1984 for Christmas. I was shocked because we didn't have a lot of money and it was expensive. There is one on ebay right now. It's $9,500. If only I had the foresight, that would buy me some nice cues.
Of course I would not loan any of them to guys named Scooter.
vintagecollectibles831
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Yeah, the one I had looked pretty similar to this one, which is a 1995 GT Performer. I see it was around a $500 bike, at the time, so I think that is probably the one that I had. I thought it looked so cool. Still makes me so angry, thinking about that kid who basically stole the bike from me, by never returning it back to me. I wish that Karma were a real thing.
