Ever had you cue, Case, Equiptment RIPPED Off in a Pool Room

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Well I heard late last night were I been playing over in the next City while I Recreation Center is Closed for Remodeling.

Tuesday one of the Guys apparently got his Case & a Cue Butt Ripped Off while playing.

Now the weird thing is almost everyone know everyone, as it is a Private Pool Room in a Senior Community.

Apparently the Case & Cue Butt just walked out, and everyone is puzzled as to who is the Thief.

Also the case could be worth maybe a maximum of 20-30 Bucks. The Cue butt was a REAL CHEAP Chinese Special value of maybe 30 BUCKS.

What is the world coming to. Should get the entire story, when I go play today.... :mad:
 
Many years ago mine was stolen from my car. It was a Porper 3X6 and 3 Meucci cues, one David Howard and a couple of Hustlers. Several weeks later one of my friends paged me, when I called him he said someone had just walked in and was playing with my cues. I was lucky and got my cues back :D
 
My break cue is a sneaky pete style and looks just like a house cue. Well, I can remember atleast 4-5 times people have tried to take it and use it, mistaking it for one of the bar's. :( :mad: :(
 
TannerPruess said:
My break cue is a sneaky pete style and looks just like a house cue. Well, I can remember atleast 4-5 times people have tried to take it and use it, mistaking it for one of the bar's. :( :mad: :(
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And the moral to the story is........? (think hard)
 
I doesn't matter what your cue looks like

I saw two guys come into a Joss Tour event near the end, so they were letteing people on the open tables still leaving space for the tourney players. Well, they proceeded to walk down a couple tables and pick up Santos' PFD, and his Predator BK and make their way back to their table. Also many times, I've had my cues on the table beside the one I'm playing on and people will come up and ask if anyone is using them. Apparently all the house cues have lizard wraps where they come from. People are just F*in stupid.
 
I've been thinking about this issue recent since I just got a Schon :)

I think I'm actually going to take it into the bathroom with me unless I have someone I trust to watch it.

The main reason I didn't get a sneaky pete was out of fear someone would pick it up as a house cue. Must happen alot, since most people don't know their a$$ from a hold in the ground.
 
I have never had my stuff stolen from a pool room. Maybe I need better stuff? Ha-ha.

In my experience, during tournies, players will warm up on a table, then when the tourny starts, and their table is called, they will leave all their stuff (case and jacket) at the first table they warmed up on. Then they wonder what happened to their stuff at the end of the night. Go figure.


I do know a person that got their keys stolen out of their jacket pocket. AT the end of the night, he couldn't find his keys, and his car was gone. It was at a fairly large bar / poolhall.

Unfortunately, he had a Lexus key chain and keys, that went to the only Lexus in the parking lot.
 
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I tend to keep a close eye on my cue or keep it with somone I trust if I'm leaving the room for a bit. So far *knock on wood* I haven't had any problems.

One night after my Sunday bar league, a huge group of people walk in celebrating some off off broadway play they were just in. So I spot this cute girl and start working my mojo :p. I convince her to play doubles with me even though she's never shot a ball before. We win a few racks when the next person up is her ex-boyfriend. I hadn't noticed him before, but apparently he was sitting in the corner, drinking heavily, just itching to kick my ass in pool or otherwise. After I break and set my break cue down, the dude decided he's going to use it as his cue. I tell him he can't use it, but he just ignored me. At this point I just start laughing, if he really wants to play with a phenolic tip... more power to him. Who am I to stop him? Every shot his took was a mis-cue. By the end, he was so frustrated and embarrassed that he just walked out of the bar with his tail between his legs. :D
 
Fortunately for me, no. I used to even leave my cue on the table when I took a bathroom break or to go get a snack or water.

Then I found out that there was a very influential person working at the hall that warned people about being curious over my stuff. He's on my nuts list for life! :)

Barbara
 
Same story. Shooting at a pool hall in Pittsburgh. Stood my Falcon J/B (wrapped, black stained maple, SS joint) in the corner. Went to break the next rack (I do win occasionally) and found it missing. Went kind of frantic until I found a young lady shooting with it on a table in another room. Be careful out there folks.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
 
MaryD said:
I see your point, but I don't know. We also have a sneaky pete style jump/break cue, and people have picked it up thinking it was a house cue. I don't think they realized at all.

What's odd is *where* they usually pick it up from. It's common where we play to lay any cues not being shot with at the moment on the table behind the one where the match is being played (assuming it's unused of course). Two or more matches may even use the same unused nearby table. So anybody walking up sees two or three cues lying there, and the players going over and switching them.

The house cues are in racks on the wall.

So somebody comes in, looks around, and decides it makes more sense to take a cue from the table than from the wall? Even if the cues on the table were house cues (which most clearly are not), it's pretty obvious somebody's using them. The same is true if the cue is leaned up against something else next to the match table, with the players walking right around it.

Yet somebody comes in, walks over and picks up a cue that's clearly being used by someone else, regardless of cue ownership (player or house).

I have to chalk this up to being oblivious (and occasionally in some cases acquisitive) for the most part, rather than credit it to the appearance of the cue in question.

M
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Mary...can you say.... D O L T !!

(BTW...remember where you live...Tony Soprano and all the rest of the guys are in your same pool room...well at least the wannabe Tonys..."Whadda ya mean dat's yuw cue, lady...looks just like mine dat was ripped off last week...
You sure dat's yuw cue lady??!! Muddaf*#ka's!!!"
 
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TannerPruess said:
Moral of story is: Get Drivermaker to buy me a new break cue... not sneaky pete style. :cool:
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You got it right on the second part of your answer, but to the first part....WHO'S YOUR DADDY?? (It ain't the Driver...)
Good answer though, kid. I can see that you'll turn into a great poolroom mooch over time. Better yet...apply that quick thinking to the business world, you'll make a ton more money. ;)
 
I always put my case under the table I am playing on, and also place my break stick there. Anyone crawling on the floor usually get's noticed very quickly. As far as going to wash my hands in the restroom, my playing cue is with me all the way in & out..
Give some people a chance and they will steal anything..
Dan
 
TannerPruess said:
My break cue is a sneaky pete style and looks just like a house cue. Well, I can remember atleast 4-5 times people have tried to take it and use it, mistaking it for one of the bar's. :( :mad: :(
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This must be a common problem. I use a Dufferin Phantom sneaky pete, and it really does look like a house cue, which is good considering it kinda was a house cue that got jointed before it left the factory (the grain lines up perfectly across the joint, minus a kerf ... small things amuse small minds I guess).

Anyway, after stopping many people from picking up my cue from the table, I started to unscrew it a couple of turns when I put it down. No problem after that (the idiots probably didn't want to play with a broken cue :D ). Of course I no longer play VNEA at the bars, and have never had the problem at Pacific Ave Billiards, so I've gotten out of the habit.

I've never had anything stolen from the hall or bar.

Dave
 
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