Have you ever caught someone walking off with your cue?
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actually this happened to me last night. i got done playing some guy and i had been keeping my gilbert j/b on the other table so i didn't have to risk it being knocked over or what not. i turn around and a bunch of guys walk in and start playing on the only table in the room that's near me!(i hate that) anyway i go to put my gilbert away and i notice it's gone. none of the guys at the table have it and i'm freaked out. i ask one guy if there was a cue there when he got there and he said no. so i'm looking around to see who could have taken it. one of the other guys apparently put my cue on the cue rack with the rest of the house cues and didn't hear me ask the other guy.
2x in 2 weeks
I had never had a problem with this until I spent $900 on a new Predator 3K7 a few years ago.
Two weeks after I bought it, a guy challenges me to a game. He racks, I grab my breaker and break the rack. I turn around to swap to my new cue, AND ITS GONE!!! I look around, and the guy is 2 tables down, talking to someone with MY CUE IN HIS HANDS. I walk over and tell him - in not polite conversation - that is my cue, and grab it out of his hands. He says "I thought it was a bar cue." I'm more than a little ticked, and can't see someone coming into a pool hall challenging someone to a game and not knowing the difference between a bar cue and a black/white/mother of pearl cue.
About a week and a half later, I am playing in another hall with a friend. A guy walks in off the street selling pens. My friend and I are sitting behind a bar table with my cue in front of the table. The guy walks up and starts trying to sell his "charity pens", then grabs my cue and asks to play $50 a rack. After the previous incident and the fact my cue is still not a month old, I told him he had 5 seconds to put the cue down or I was going to rip his head off. It took him 4 seconds to register what I said, then he put it down.
Some people have no clue.
I had never had a problem with this until I spent $900 on a new Predator 3K7 a few years ago.
Two weeks after I bought it, a guy challenges me to a game. He racks, I grab my breaker and break the rack. I turn around to swap to my new cue, AND ITS GONE!!! I look around, and the guy is 2 tables down, talking to someone with MY CUE IN HIS HANDS. I walk over and tell him - in not polite conversation - that is my cue, and grab it out of his hands. He says "I thought it was a bar cue." I'm more than a little ticked, and can't see someone coming into a pool hall challenging someone to a game and not knowing the difference between a bar cue and a black/white/mother of pearl cue.
About a week and a half later, I am playing in another hall with a friend. A guy walks in off the street selling pens. My friend and I are sitting behind a bar table with my cue in front of the table. The guy walks up and starts trying to sell his "charity pens", then grabs my cue and asks to play $50 a rack. After the previous incident and the fact my cue is still not a month old, I told him he had 5 seconds to put the cue down or I was going to rip his head off. It took him 4 seconds to register what I said, then he put it down.
Some people have no clue.
After reading about the RFID devices to put in your case I decided to purchase one on e-bay. I won the auction this morning for a loc8tor plus. Just do a google search. If it doesn't meet my needs at least I should never lose my keys or remote control again......
mooseman said:
If it doesn't meet my needs at least I should never lose my keys or remote control again......
You should strap it to your chalk holder
qbilder said:You should strap it to your chalk holder
Actually after all the ones I've misplaced, lost, or that have been stolen I think you have a point.......
For those not in the know I did lose one chalky-by-ken and I had another chalky-by-ken stolen.......
little wierdo
Wev'e got a little wierd guy that kinda lurks and wonders around
the pool room here .I am pretty sure he is harmeless but I have seen
him open peoples cases and pull cues out ,look at them, and put em
back. He's just kind of wierd
He was eyeballin my cues the
other night when I was showing one of them to a friend .I felt a little
violated
Wev'e got a little wierd guy that kinda lurks and wonders around
the pool room here .I am pretty sure he is harmeless but I have seen
him open peoples cases and pull cues out ,look at them, and put em
back. He's just kind of wierd
He was eyeballin my cues theother night when I was showing one of them to a friend .I felt a little
violated
Happened to me once...
That happened to me once...I was soo angry...the guy thought it was a "house" cue...a curly purpleheart Ed Young with Sterling Silver rings looks like a house cue...I miss that cue, was one of the best bank cues ever!
jay helfert said:
That happened to me once...I was soo angry...the guy thought it was a "house" cue...a curly purpleheart Ed Young with Sterling Silver rings looks like a house cue...I miss that cue, was one of the best bank cues ever!
The only time I had someone walk off with my cue was my Schmelke sneaky at the LV Cue Club. I found a guy with it on the bangers side. He didn't give me any shizz about it...
Loc8tor Plus and Theft Alert
I received my Loc8tor Plus device I won on E-bay yesterday. http://www.loc8tor.com/ Please note by winning on ebay I did not pay full price. I did take a risk but figured I could use this to find that pesky TV remote or keys I leave laying around.
I've been playing around with it. The nice thing is you can adjust the alert mode sensitivity for an alert to sound when the tag and remote are separated.
You can also use it to help you locate the tag. Unfortunately the tags are not small enough to place in a cue, but definitely small enough to place/hide in your case.
The one I purchased came with 4 tags and the remote. The remote is the size of a small cellphone.
Overall I think it will fill a need if you are looking for something.....
I received my Loc8tor Plus device I won on E-bay yesterday. http://www.loc8tor.com/ Please note by winning on ebay I did not pay full price. I did take a risk but figured I could use this to find that pesky TV remote or keys I leave laying around.
I've been playing around with it. The nice thing is you can adjust the alert mode sensitivity for an alert to sound when the tag and remote are separated.
You can also use it to help you locate the tag. Unfortunately the tags are not small enough to place in a cue, but definitely small enough to place/hide in your case.
The one I purchased came with 4 tags and the remote. The remote is the size of a small cellphone.
Overall I think it will fill a need if you are looking for something.....
Varney Cues said:Two words....body bag!!!
Hell i just got my cue back she been gone for 3 weeks, and now shes back with me. The guy that had it told me His friend 'that he was playing with' let him hold it.
When i asked the guy he said it's not mine and i got it off the wall .
"Mind" you this a poolroom that i play all the time and a pic of the cue was posted of the missing cue..
Wow..
If someone can get close to my cues agian. life has just ended for them.. Never agian will that happen...
ShootingArts said:
LOL.
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Runnin8 said:
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lol.
Hmmmm....... it's league night tonight. I was gonna bring the 1st Catalog Palmer Model 11. .........Maybe not.
I have been bringing that out lately to day practice, and quite frankly have taken it with me into the mens room. With 65 league people bopping around, on a crowded evening, it would be a distraction for sure.
I have been bringing that out lately to day practice, and quite frankly have taken it with me into the mens room. With 65 league people bopping around, on a crowded evening, it would be a distraction for sure.
av84fun said:
Unfortunately, it's not even legally safe if the other guy swings first. It THese days it's a race to the police station to file charges. The first one to file usually wins the legal battle, regardless of what's right or fair.
A buddy of mine was sucker punched (blindsided from behind) with zero provocation by some guy that he'd never seen before. He must have just felt like starting some random sh__ and picked a "small" person. Bad choice - he didn't take the time to notice that his 5'6" target weighed in at about 190 lbs and not an ounce of fat. My buddy popped him real good one time, ending the fight, maybe bending his nose a little.
Bottom line - This guy regains conciousness, runs to the police to file assault charges and my buddy goes to jail.
It ain't the old west out there...
Tom
I had a scare like this before. My wife was holding my case, and some masked men grabbed her and shoved her into a van. Luckily she dropped the case on the way in.
