Can we fix this?
This seems to be a bad trend getting worse.
Over all, lets not toot our own horns, but for the most part, in spite of being pool players we're all pretty good guys. However, as in any community there is a bad element.
There are enough of us that live in every part of this country to sort of be a "self policing" community. This a503 guy, I was more then willing to give him the benefit of the doubt the first time, I don't know him, I don't know his situation and so this happens once maybe I write it off to a bad series of events and some miscommunication, but twice makes him part of the bad element.
We know this guys name and address, if it's me and he has jerked me around and lives in the same town as me I would likely go to his house, but as our business among each other is normally done across state lines that may not always be an option.
He appears to be an APA player, if maybe some of our members in Oregon could reach out to the LO in his part of Oregon perhaps they could find him on a league night and request some sort of explanation, or maybe they know people that know people...
Either way, the idea is not to be violent or threatening, but just on behalf of the billiard community maybe ask why did this happen and how can we fix it.
I think that in "normal" society pool isn't seen as a mainstream sport, a lot of the reason is, I feel, because it's seen as being full of cheaters, gamblers, liars, smoke filled-liquored up slobs. We know this isn't always the case, but in order to clean up the image at large, maybe we ought to start by cleaning our own house.
Let see if if we can find a503's motivation, perhaps after a series of unfortunate events he's just to embarrassed to approach this community, or, maybe it's just time he gets his comeuppance.
Either way, I feel like we're entitled to an explanation
This seems to be a bad trend getting worse.
Over all, lets not toot our own horns, but for the most part, in spite of being pool players we're all pretty good guys. However, as in any community there is a bad element.
There are enough of us that live in every part of this country to sort of be a "self policing" community. This a503 guy, I was more then willing to give him the benefit of the doubt the first time, I don't know him, I don't know his situation and so this happens once maybe I write it off to a bad series of events and some miscommunication, but twice makes him part of the bad element.
We know this guys name and address, if it's me and he has jerked me around and lives in the same town as me I would likely go to his house, but as our business among each other is normally done across state lines that may not always be an option.
He appears to be an APA player, if maybe some of our members in Oregon could reach out to the LO in his part of Oregon perhaps they could find him on a league night and request some sort of explanation, or maybe they know people that know people...
Either way, the idea is not to be violent or threatening, but just on behalf of the billiard community maybe ask why did this happen and how can we fix it.
I think that in "normal" society pool isn't seen as a mainstream sport, a lot of the reason is, I feel, because it's seen as being full of cheaters, gamblers, liars, smoke filled-liquored up slobs. We know this isn't always the case, but in order to clean up the image at large, maybe we ought to start by cleaning our own house.
Let see if if we can find a503's motivation, perhaps after a series of unfortunate events he's just to embarrassed to approach this community, or, maybe it's just time he gets his comeuppance.
Either way, I feel like we're entitled to an explanation
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Sadly enough there will always be people like him in this world but do remember there will always be the good as well. Hopefully there is a way to solve this problem in the future.
