Any stories about the *MOST* angry you ever saw anyone get in a pool room over pool or cards or whatever and what, if anything, happened? I've got a few but I'll wait a bit and see what anyone else has.
Any stories about the *MOST* angry you ever saw anyone get in a pool room over pool or cards or whatever and what, if anything, happened? I've got a few but I'll wait a bit and see what anyone else has.
Yeah, and it was because of a fart during a 9-ball money game. About 10 or 12 folks ended up in a bar brawl, lolI was in one of Mark Griffins old pool halls in Anchorage back in the 60's and a good player name John Duclose was working and two guys got into a argument about some thing unknown to me.
I noticed one of them was dragging the balls to his side of the table with a cue, which spoke volumes to me and then he hit the other guy on the head with a cue, grabbed him and slammed him on the table and punched him a couple of times.
John walked over very calmly and said "Let him go Lee, let him go", which he did and that was it, fight over and John told them to leave and they did.
Now Lee did not need to hit the guy with a cue to win the fight, but that is just the way he was and the other guy should of known better then to argue with a guy like Lee, especially when he was holding a club.
Mark was not there and I never saw the other guy again and Lee did not show his face for a long time. I always viewed Lee as a dangerous man and would be surprised to find out he lived to old age.
I was playing a guy at House of Billiards in Santa Monica a number of years ago, and he kept slamming the rack on the table when he would rack, and slamming the balls, and slamming his cue on the floor. Finally, he punched the rail with his fist...and broke his hand.
Any stories about the *MOST* angry you ever saw anyone get in a pool room over pool or cards or whatever and what, if anything, happened? I've got a few but I'll wait a bit and see what anyone else has.
A friend of mine was in the process of busting the owner of a bar in Ponca City, Ok. Guy got so mad he threw his cue javelin-style thru the wall into the cafe next door. About pissed myself i laughed so hard.
Butt first? That dude had MLB quality heat!!A guy at my old pool hall javelined his cue straight past the heads of two girls playing on the table in front of him, embedding the cue in the wall. It was over missing a 50 dollar 9 ball. This was a huge, strong guy, and one shudders at the thought of what would happen if that cue had hit the girls in the head...The cue flew straigth with very little drop, indicating that it had tremendous speed. The other indicator was the depth of it's penetration into the wall. It went in past the grip, butt first. This guy was a very bad player, compulsive gambler and very bad loser. Not a good combo. He also habitually broke his cues in creative and spectacular ways.
Don't know how mad he was, but know a guy that pulled a knife on someone. Got a gun in his face in return. Cops took the knife guy to jail since he started it.
Had a guy threaten to stab me at a card game once, buddy next to me had his gun drawn under the table, and I had a knife in my hand in case it escalated. Friend of mine talked everyone into calming down.
Pool room, saw a lot of fights back in the 80's and early 90's.
Probably the most amped up I saw anyone was a police offer. They were after some drug dealers from out of town that came through. Girl and a guy, dropped a duffel bag under a table and got the hell out. Cop found a fully loaded mac10 in the bag, and was waving it around yelling "Who the **** owns this".
And I was playing a guy one time, getting the wild 8. I was breaking good, and the 9 and 8 counted on the break. Think I made 17 of them while we played. He snaps his shaft in half and storms out after paying me on the last one. Comes back in as someone was getting the butt out of the trash can, took it and broke it in half. I don't think he has played a game of pool since and that was 1990.
The second worst thing: Guy lost an eye to a baseball bat.