Have you ever lost your cue?

[maha]

That's probably the best (and most unbelievable) story of them all! Philly Joe Veasy was in on the sale of the cue but it was Steve the Whale that actually stole it out of Keith's hotel room while he was downstairs celebrating his win.

P.S. 25K in the mid 80's was a monster score. I split it 50-50 with Keith.

yea that's right. big steve stole it. and butch scared the sh=t out of him as he would anybody of any size that knew him.
if you had any issue no matter how small unless he really liked you or you killed him, you were going to lose big time in the end.

steve, for all its worth, was very funny and fun to have around but a total rip off if you closed your eyes. i knew him well from the poolrooms.
because i always had money, he was always trying to sell me something that would get me in jail. once he had some silly one shot zip gun to shoot .25
that thing wouldn't kill a person and would only get you beat up or thrown in jail for ten years for possession.

 

[ShortBusRuss]

In the Army, I used to practice/compete 6-12 hours a day on the weekends, and then come back to the dayroom and put on an Accu-Stats video, and often fell asleep while watching.

Someone came in while I was asleep, and stole my Meucci Maximum. I absolutely loved that cue. The barracks doors had either a lock the residents had a key to, or a code, I forget which. So it was one of my fellow soldiers, or their friends who stole it.

Funny story about that cue.. Some months before, I was in the base enlisted club, and some people would play for $5-$20 a game 8 ball, and more weekends than not, I would bring home $100 or more. Miss Annie the lady that worked at the door, found out, and gave me a hard time about gambling, and I just laughed it off.

Miss Annie ended up calling the MPs, and they sent in a pretty blonde ringer MPI agent, who pretended to have lost a bunch of money to another player, and "asked me to play them to get her money back". After the first game was done, I was arrested by the MPs, and came up on the blotter report. They took my cue as "evidence". Took me a month or two to get it back, when I talked to my lawyer, and told them it was entrapment. I never asked anyone to play for money without them asking first.

In the time period in which I was waiting to get my cue back, I bought a Steve Mizerak cue from the PX, and actually caught quite a bit of s**t from fellow players for playing with such a cheap cue... We were all young and immature at that age.. (early 20s..)

This stolen cue as a result of falling asleep in the dayroom is what ended up causing me to buy a used TV/VCR from one of my coworkers.

 

[GrayBeard]

I bought my first cue around 1968. Cheap piece of crap, but I loved that cue. During my stint in the Navy, I was on my first visit to sunny Vietnam I left it in my apartment in Long Beach with my new wife. Unfortunately someone burgled our apartment while the wife was working and the only thing stolen was some booze and my cue. Kids no doubt. I still miss that cue even though I have better cues now.

 

[sjm]

Probably lost my cue half a dozen times, almost always at a restaurant to which I'd gone right after playing pool. In every situation, I called the restaurant and reclaimed it within a day.

That said, I've never lost an expensive cue.

 

[Black-Balled]

Can't say no:
misplaced my entire bag one or more times

 

[JABSolstice]

My teammate tried to steal my cue a few weeks ago. We were playing in a random bar and I win a game. I go to grab my break cue and it's gone. I lost my mind searching as it's a sneaky style. Turns out he had broken it down and put it in his case and was halfway to his car before I caught him. He claims it was an accident.

He is no longer on our team.

 

[Rickhem]

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So it was one of my fellow soldiers, or their friends who stole it.

My teammate tried to steal my cue a few weeks ago.

It's almost always someone you know that does these things. Living in a fairly rural area, this has been something my GF has made a point about in more than a few instances. Funny how women have that sense for who is actually a lowlife douchebag, and her instinct has proven it self enough that I pay attention when she doesn't like someone.

Read the police blotter, or talk with law enforcement friends, and it's the contractor's helper, or the casual contact person that you know, that decides you need what they want less than them. Add in those with a substance abuse problem, and you end up with a half-dozen to a dozen people in your extended circle that wouldn't think twice about theft.

I had a coworker decades ago that used to always say "Trust everyone, but always cut the deck".

 

[nataddrho]

I had a coworker decades ago that used to always say "Trust everyone, but always cut the deck".

My wife says “a ocasião faz o ladrão” which means “the occasion makes the thief”