Can I get a little testifying

I broke one with intentional malice. I got an older Hoppe' cue and had a cue maker make a shaft for it, it played worse than the original warped one. I proceeded to walk outside, back of the building and beat it reletnlessly on the corner of the building, I got back in the room and later broke my 5 day sickeness and beat a guy out of $3,000.
Then years back I played Gary Lutman while he was traveling with CJ, when these two were together back in the day they were a short lived interesting road pair. Anywho Gary beat me out of a couple hundred which was not that big a deal but how he treated me was "remembering" A few years later I caught him with his 'sweetie' at the BCA nationals somewhere in the midwest. Anywho, I got him stuck about 300 at 50 a game 9-ball bar table and I "had" him where I wanted him, he tried to double up, I knew this was not going to happen (experience) and I ended up beating him out of $700 and he busted his cue, a "very" expensive one, more than his loss and he was also going at it with his girlfriend, it was a "very" sweet score to say the least.
 
Island Drive said:
I broke one with intentional malice. I got an older Hoppe' cue and had a cue maker make a shaft for it, it played worse than the original warped one. I proceeded to walk outside, back of the building and beat it reletnlessly on the corner of the building, I got back in the room and later broke my 5 day sickeness and beat a guy out of $3,000.
Then years back I played Gary Lutman while he was traveling with CJ, when these two were together back in the day they were a short lived interesting road pair. Anywho Gary beat me out of a couple hundred which was not that big a deal but how he treated me was "remembering" A few years later I caught him with his 'sweetie' at the BCA nationals somewhere in the midwest. Anywho, I got him stuck about 300 at 50 a game 9-ball bar table and I "had" him where I wanted him, he tried to double up, I knew this was not going to happen (experience) and I ended up beating him out of $700 and he busted his cue, a "very" expensive one, more than his loss and he was also going at it with his girlfriend, it was a "very" sweet score to say the least.
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Revenge is a dish best served COLD!:D

Jim
 
Maniac said:
Like Cameron, I too have never broken any piece of equipment that I have owned. I have a very relaxed temperment and I am not a very competitive person to begin with. I mean, winning is fun and all, but anything I have ever endeavored to do I go in with the mindset that I'm just gonna have fun with it and meet new faces and make new friends. Also, I'm not great at any one specific thing, but I am pretty good at a lot of things. I have won two fishing tournaments. I have won tournament MVP trophies twice in my softball playing days. I have won the Hi-Power Rifle Shooter of the Year plaque at our local gun club once. I was the recipient of the Physical Education award at my high school awards day in my Senior year. But, I'm not really great at any of these things, I just plug away at them. So, knowing that I'm not very good at something going into it has probably kept me from having to spend beaucoup bucks to replace equipment.

Maniac
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Maniac, your name deceives you.:D

Jim
 
I have smashed. Sometimes the cue must pay.

Funniest memory about male frustration, sperred by this thread, I was over at a frends house to ride bikes and he was trying to fix his. (Adjustable, on a $2k bike:eek: ) wrench slipped and he winged it across the room of his parent's basement. Went right into the wall!
 
Ladies, what's said on AZ stays on Az.- fess up!

pwd72s said:
funny how we tend to break things when we're really mad at ourselves.
I wonder, is this a "guy thing", or do women do the same?
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Great question! Come on ladies, fess up - this forum is like a confessional, everything is privledged and confidential - testify!!!

Also wonder about some of the pros, aside from Earl.:D

Jim
 
I have a $300 viking I'm about to smash as soon as I get my cue from Varney. The tip rattles and pisses me off. I started shooting with my wife's $40 hampton cue just to see if it was the cue, and I ran the rack. I'm thinking of just burning it actually... our friends upstairs have a big fireplace :)
 
jimmyg said:
Maniac, your name deceives you.:D

Jim
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Jim, have you ever heard this joke:

Q: What's the last words out of a rednecks mouth?

A: Hey fellas, watch this!

That joke may have been coined after some of the antics that I pulled in my younger days (mostly behind the wheel of an automobile). Seriously, it's a miracle I survived my youth. I've mellowed somewhat in my recent years, but I'm still a crazy son-of-a-gun. All the same, I take your comment as a compliment, and I thank you for it!!!

Maniac
 
Never broke any sticks, but one time at The Spot in Renton, WA... I was playing a ring-game on a bar-box and winning for a change, so the whiskey was a-flowin'. Well one of the guys I was playing had a hee-ot gilfriend and when she walked in, I was busy at the table, but soon found time to chat her up a bit and felt like I was making some nice insider progress with her.... Well, that all came to a crashing halt when I blew the very last shot of the ring game and threw my barcue down on the table... I threw it underhanded, tip first down towards the racking spot and it richochet off the felt, did not catch the rail as I had intended, and gave a nasty spear in the back to that girl I liked with the nice knee-ockers. She took it quite well and got over it, but I have never lived it down. That was the finest girl I ever poked. I be her back was black and blue for a month!
 
anger management

once i was playing golf with some friends, i was just starting out so i was really a hack at the game, through a couple of holes i started getting pissed off cause i had a bad night before (put girlfriend, alcohol and another girl and you get the picture..) i missed an easy putt and promptly threw the club into the bushes... took us all 15 mins to find it. on the next hole i put my ball into the water with my 5 iron, promptly tried to throw tha club in as well.. didnt make it... walked over to pick it up, smashed it against my knee, broke it in 2, then threw it into the water... lost my balance on the way and fell on my a$$.. yeah.. great fun..:mad:

friends were having a good laugh... i guess after that i was too.. sigh.. nothing like golf to let go some steam.
 
> I've done it. I was playing a very close friend,but one I'd die trying to beat because he always seemed to come up with something big when it counted,or I'd do something wrong and he'd capitalize. I ran a 63 on him playing 14.1 while trailing 99-36,and for whatever reason started to realize what I had done and naturally got to strutting,and miscued on a 1 foot stop shot,game ball. Years later,I had been playing poorly all day,and getting beat by him even though it had been almost a year since he hit a ball with health problems. He was leading 10-4 in a race to 11,and hooked himself. I kicked the ball in,and got out to make it 10-5. I ran 3 racks,made a 9 on the break and ran out to a 5-9 billiard to make it 10-10,and broke in the hill game. I stone squatted the cue ball,and made the 6 and the 1. I had about a 4 foot shot on the 2,where all I had to do was draw to the side rail and back out about 2 feet for a straight in shot on the 3,with the deadest rail-first billiard on the 9 I've ever seen laying in the opposite corner,all I had to do was NOT draw the cue ball back off the 3,and the set was mine. I shot the 2 with a really sweet stroke,about an 1/8th too thick,and drew the cue ball right into the side pocket. Without even enough time to correct myself,I jammed the butt of my Schon straight into the floor hard enough a huge chunk came out of the butt cap. Once again,Tommy puts together a heroic comeback effort,only to fall one ball short and Dennis got the cash again. Tommy D.
 
This thread got me remembering all my lesser moments breaking things:D

ask anyone who knows me...I'm as mellow as it gets....til something stupid won't agree with my thinking;)

hood scoop on my 67' Nova....carb power valve would NOT stop blowing out...

my last hand held drain machine...poor thing, I lent it too a friend, and he kinked the cables.....hence me trying to help a customer, and the thing kept wrapping up!....smasho....against my shop wall.

about 2357 model cars that I could not get past step 4....

1 surfboard fin that kept coming loose from the fin box....I didn't really smash it, I launched it into the Atlantic Ocean from the parking lot where we surfed.

1 baitcaster bass fishing outfit.....those things SUCK!......who the hell invented those things?....I guess you have to be from the South?:D


now I'm laughing remembering all these things.....later

Gerry
 
I've only broken one cue, and that was one of those cheapy three-piece jobs that deserved to be broken anyway. One night I was playing a guy who broke his cue, though, and that was pretty cool. He did this two-handed chopping motion, reaching back for all he could get, and the cue met the rail right about the joint. It sounded like somebody fired a rifle in the pool hall, and the shaft splintered into a million pieces. Took us 10 minutes or so to pick the pieces off of the felt so we could play again.

One of the funniest times, though, was when I watched a guy break a house cue over the edge of the table. He had been getting the worst of it gambling that night, and, rather than grab his playing cue, he grabbed the house cue he'd been breaking with, and snapped it. Well, the dude behind the counter went total apeshit and told him he was going to have to pay for that cue. "Ok, how much is it?", the player asked, and the guy told him it was $15. The player says "well, goddamn!", walks over to the rack, grabs another house cue and snaps it over the edge of the table as well. He ended up breaking four of them that night, and the entire place was in stitches (thankfully not literally).
 
Aaron_S said:
I've only broken one cue, and that was one of those cheapy three-piece jobs that deserved to be broken anyway. One night I was playing a guy who broke his cue, though, and that was pretty cool. He did this two-handed chopping motion, reaching back for all he could get, and the cue met the rail right about the joint. It sounded like somebody fired a rifle in the pool hall, and the shaft splintered into a million pieces. Took us 10 minutes or so to pick the pieces off of the felt so we could play again.

One of the funniest times, though, was when I watched a guy break a house cue over the edge of the table. He had been getting the worst of it gambling that night, and, rather than grab his playing cue, he grabbed the house cue he'd been breaking with, and snapped it. Well, the dude behind the counter went total apeshit and told him he was going to have to pay for that cue. "Ok, how much is it?", the player asked, and the guy told him it was $15. The player says "well, goddamn!", walks over to the rack, grabs another house cue and snaps it over the edge of the table as well. He ended up breaking four of them that night, and the entire place was in stitches (thankfully not literally).
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That's hilarious :D

Maybe I'll ask how much house cues are next time and just pre-pay for some stress relief :p
 
I broke the first 5-6 cues I ever owned. I used to just get so disgusted with my times (still do). I have calmed down ALOT and I fully credit it to exercising and working out. I have a new perspective on the game and everything else. Channeling that anger and bitterness into something positive really works wonders.
 
I bought a Pechauer Cue and Instroke Case together from Seyberts.com about 3.5 years ago. The case was "reconstituted" leather, and ended up falling apart. So, they let me send it back for a discount on a different one. The day the new case came (real leather this time) I broke the Pechauer.

I was playing a $.25/$.50 ring game and missed a 9-ball. Rapped the shaft on the table, which was a habit I had picked up a while before. Well, that was the last time, because it broke, right below the joint. Not even hard, not really very pissed off, but it cost me $600.:)

I chalk it up to the cue and case needing to be together.;-)

I saved the parts, and months later when I moved out of my house, I broke the rest of the shaft to bits on the driveway. The bulk of the shaft shot back over my head into the rear windshield of my van. No damage done, but it spooked me a bit.

Another time I took vengeance upon a cell phone. I had broken the speaker, so I couldn't hear anyone without a hands free set. After using it like that for about 4 months, I finally got a new one and ran the other over with a car.
 
I saw a guy break his cue and throw it in the trash. I took the butt home had a shaft made and made $80.
 
Island Drive said:
I saw a guy break his cue and throw it in the trash. I took the butt home had a shaft made and made $80.
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Only in America, Island!:D

Jim
 
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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Yes, I've broken the butt end of my McDermott in a match...hoping to not do such a thing again.
 
I once saw a guy I know try to hit a stop shot on the 8, instead cue ball jumps off table, the player slams his cue on the table flat lengthwise, somehow the cue broke and the butt half bounced up and broke the lightbulb. The guy running the place made the player give him $20 for the house cue then go to the store to buy a light bulb. He still hasn't made good on the light bulb.
 
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