How many cues have you smashed? Discussion inside!

I never could understand why you would want to take your frustrations out on your own equipment. I get really pissed off at times but would never show anyone how i feel good or bad. Maybe the next time someone gets pissed and feel like they have to act out. They should snap his opponents cue lol. just kidding. (hopefully it wouldn't be mine)
 
broke my first cue after having lost a really crappy match (league)
fortunately it was only a 50 dollar cuetec, breaking it was the best thing ive ever done with it ;)
 
Old fellow shoots in our room probably in his mid to late 70's, Glen. I know in his day, he was wicked. Arthritis has sneaked up on him, but he still kicks ass when he gets serious.

Glen plays with an old K-mart cue he bought for $10. It is beat to hell and back, finish coming off. He was breaking with it and had big splinter shoot out of the shaft and he taped it up with scotch tape. He enjoys talking about kicking ass with his $10 cue.

Every time Glen comes in, he screws the cue together and looks down the barrel of the cue to make sure it hasn't warped since the last time he played with it. It always has, and he puts the shaft on the table, and holding the butt of the cue with his right hand, while applying downforce with his left hand, straightens the cue at the joint. This process usually takes 5 minutes or so before he shoots. Kind of a funny ritual to watch.

The other night, he comes in to shoot and starts the straightening procedure. I drop down for a shot and hear "KAPOW." As I turn around, Glen is rubbing his head and holding the butt of his cue. Damned thing snapped clean in half right behing the joint. The shaft/joint bounced up off the table and hit him just above his temple on his forehead. He kept rubbing his head to see if he was bleeding. Looked like an old stick you picked up in the woods as a kid and whacked on a tree to break.

Of course, none of us laughed or made light of the situation. He gathered up his two pieces and laid them calmly on the rail, all the time rubbing his head. Kinda reminded me of the scene in The Christmas Story when Ralphie's Old Man gathered up the remains of his major award.

Glen took it all in stride, picked up a house cue and proceeded to kick ass. One of his friends had actually brought him a cue to try out, so it worked out pretty good.

ken
 
Broken cue better than prison time

Back in 96, I had a Joss model 94-09. A drunk driver ran a stop light and ran into the side of my car. Upon finding out that he was uninsured and didn’t have a license to boot because of previous DUI convictions, I slammed my case against my car. On top of having my car totaled by a drunk, I was out a Porper case and Joss but. Surprisingly the shaft was unharmed. For the next 2 years, I played with a $28.00 one-piece cue until I met my wife. In the next week or so I should receive my first two-piece cue in 15 years. :D
 
I broke my previous custom cue but it was an accident. I was practicing with another player after I got knocked out of a big tournament in a big arena. They hadn't put any carpet so we were playing on cement and a guy walked in front of me so I backed up to give him room and I hit my cue that was leaning on a dining table and it fell on the floor. It made a crack in the butt. I could still play with it but it makes a dreadful sound because something is loose in the butt. I was able to keep the shaft though!
 
I've never broke a cue, BUT my BROTHER....well

My brother use to have the worst temper.(still has some remnants of it deeeeeeep inside!)

A few stories....

He was playing a friend for some money($50 sets or something like that). Both drunk off their ass. Neither could see straight. His friend kept on screaming "I'M OUT, *****! I'M OUT!!!" and kept on doing so. My brother was also arguing with his girlfriend. After he lost a few sets, he puts his cue in his case and proceeds to go outside still arguing w/ girlfriend. He gets super pissed and tossed his case, high and far. It comes down on his own windshield and breaks the window!!! Cue and case fine, window, not so much!!!!!!!!!!

We were at a pool tournament in Atlantic IA. and we were down to the last 2 games. We needed both games to advance to semi-finals. My brother only has 1 ball left and the 8. He's straight in and the 8 ball is a hanger. Needless to say he missed. So he backs up from the table, takes his cue and puts it over his head and then slams it to the ground onto a tile floor. It makes the loudest "crack" ever. He leaves his cue there while his opponent walks up to the table and shoots his shot, misses and knocks in my brothers last ball. My brother, thinking that his cue is smashed to pieces, walks over and looks down to his disbelief, his cue is unharmed! Not even a scratch! He picks it up, shoots the 8 in! The other team blew up and said that he should have been forfeited for unsportsmanlike conduct. I, being the captain, told them that they should have said something BEFORE they missed their shot. Needless to say, we won the next game and match................I'm sure your wondering what kind of cue it was. It was a Schon Ltd. He should have never got rid of it!

We were at league and my brother missed an easy shot. He turned around and "tossed" his cue onto the table next to us. I dunno how, but it broke, right below the collar.

We were at league and my brother missed an easy shot and he turned away from the table and swung his cue toward the ground and the tip hit the ground splitting the shaft in two.

We were at league and my brother missed an easy shot and he turned around and "tossed" his cue onto the table next to us. The tip end shot into the side pocket,just under the upper lip of the back of the pocket. It broke off about 4 inches down from the ferrule.


I think there were a few others but I can't recall them right off hand.......
 
Damn!!! I forgot to be mad at Scott Lee all these years. Wait til i see you at the Expo!!:)
 
I have never ever destroyed a cue or golf club period !

What confirms I was on the right path with this is a true story that happened 10 yrs ago or so.

A young man about to graduate from high school was playing golf with friends.
He hit a bad shot of the tee.
He got mad and proceeded to swing his driver down on a nearby bench !
It snapped somewhere in the middle of the shaft.
The bottom part with the clubhead attached helicoptered and hit him in the chest and went right through his heart.
DEAD because he couldn't control himself !

A real shame and very sad !
 
Nostroke said:
Does anyone else want to come forward and declare their sainthood?
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LOL! I think I may declare mine also. I have played since the 60s and I don't recall ever slamming or abusing a cue.

I learned playing pool in a place where abuse of the equipment would get you thrown out in a hurry. And, NO, it wasn't a kiddy parlor with lots of babysitters around...it was a smoky, old, pool room with winos galore (inside and outside). Later, I worked in the same place and had to fix all the stuff that was broken and I learneded that keeping your stuff in perfect condition was a lot easier than repairing or replacing broken things.

Just typing this made me laugh, I was watching two guys play pool yesterday for $3 on the five and $3 on the nine and one guy with a custom cue worth probably $1500-2000 slammed the hell out of it on the table when he hung a ball in the pocket. I watched them from the beginning until they quit...probably an hour or so and they finally broke exactly even. You would have thought they were playing for $1 million dollars the way they were *****ing and moaning when they missed (which was quite often).
 
When I was in highschool I beat a college kid out of 35 dollars at Don Carters in Fort Worth. He swung his cuetech at an empty pepsi bottle snapping it in half. After the cue snapped the shaft flew down to the bowling lanes and hit a massive black dude in the back. He tried to run but the black guy caught him and I got my money. Unfortunately he did not get his ass kicked.
 
in 1989 i was a pure banger. i had some friends that were palyers so i bought a mali for 120 bucks and tryed to play. one night at milford rec in miford ct. i lost a $20 bet a 9 ball race to 3 and smacked it on the edge of a gold crown - table number 1 and cracked it right under the joint on the butt end. it was done. a few months later i bought a meucci e2 which i still own. i stopped plying pool around 1995 and didn't start again until 2007. in all that time the lesson still hasn't sunk in enough. in the middle of a match a few weeks ago i was getting my ass handed to me by a better player. at one point i dogged a 9 and slammed my custom on the ground. nothing happened but as mad as i was i still cringed a little. and at least this time i went on to win.
i treat my equipment very well these days except on rare occasion. it helps very much that my equipment is much more expensieve now and i don't have the cash to easily replace it.
 
vegas memories

A few years ago I was playing the team event in vegas(vnea) and our opposing team was from arizona. One of the guys on their team was a big burly guy with an absolute monster break! After our match(later that evening) I was at the break speed table trying out break cues and I see this same guy riding in a caravan of rental scooters with his teammates drunk. I proceeded to stop him and ask if I paid for it would he try breaking with this chilton cue that I was impressed with, which was a demo cue from the guy running the break speed table. He said hell yeah buddy ive always wanted to try this! So,his friends and I stood there and watched this guy hit 2 breaks around 23mph and we all were like "what! no way, you hit harder than that ,cmon!" his buddies (drunk)
were really pumping him up. So this guy says im killing it this time!
He puts the cueball by the headstring and makes a rail bridge from the headrail! I mean to tell you hes cranking this stick back and forth 100 mph and on his last stroke back he comes back too far, the tip drops off the rail and when he lunges forward the tip goes in the cueball return hole and he snaps the stick in half about 12 inches from the tip! There was dead silence for about 10 seconds, and then everybody (except the guy who loaned the cue and the big drunk dude) busted out laughing. the big guys shocked look was priceless! Amidst all the laughter, the big guy says in a scared,shocked voice, "ill pay for it! ill pay for it!" that brought us to tears.Man, ill never,ever forget that:D
 
oh and btw

I know this thread is about ones personal experiences breaking cues.
I havent personally, wanted to a few times on clutch shot errors but realized its the indian not the arrow:D This thread reminded me of that incident in Vegas,and I thought i'd share:thumbup:
 
I broke a house cue when I was probably around 16. That is it. I learned unless I just wanted to throw money out the window, don't break stuff...especially if it belongs to someone else (yes I had to pay for it).
I have a friend that likes to gamble high if he thinks he has an even chance to win, and he plays pretty sporty. One night he was off really bad. About 2/3 the way through a thousand dollar set he tells the guy he can't win (he was right that night....he just couldn't pocket balls) and pays up. After he pays the guy he breaks his shaft and throws the butt on the carpet. Cue was worth probably 5-600 bucks. The butt is just laying on the carpet and my friend is just drinking a glass of water trying to compose himself just realizing what he did. One of the rail birds waits a little bit (you can see him eyeing the butt on the floor) goes up to him and offers 25 bucks for the butt. Man that really set him off. He took the butt, smashed it up against the legs of a really heavy duty bar stool more than just a few times ....then hands it to the guy and says "you can have it for free". Everyone in the place was on the floor laughing. It went into the trash can. He told me later if the guy would have just asked for the butt he would have given it to him.....but the low ball offer just sent him into orbit again.:grin:
 
bigpocket said:
I have broke a few.I am a big guy 6 ft tall and about 290lbs. I was shooting behind my back and was standing on my shoe lace lost my balance and snaped the cue in half across my back.I also was playing in a tounament . I had this viking cue I kept hearing this noise.It was the brass incert that I had fix 3 times already.I lost the match got mad went up to the tounament director and smash the shaft on my head.It is funny now.My wife thought it was funny to and made a key chain out of the shaft tip.So after I broke the shaft I went out side threw my 4x8 case full of cues in a mudd puddle and walked home .I lived across the street from the pool hall.I was so mad I got home and I broke the door frame lol I beat it up good.I did get my cues back some guy got them and returned them to me the next day.I am 27 years old now and all my cues are over a thousand bucks.I won't be doing that any more.I also broke a 5280 once. I had it for about a hour.Just got off work and took the cue from a sponcer I had.I got the cue for a break cue ,I liked it lol but I did not make a ball on the break and one hard smash on the but cap and I cracked it up to the wrap. I sold it the next night for 50 bucks.I not rough on any of my cues now and I don't drink or get mad any more.I guess I grew up . I play alot better now . I don't get to mad any more.I love my cues so much .I wonder how I can ask my wife to sleep on the floor???:D :D
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I liked this story, sounds like a quote from "Unforgiven".

Will Munny: I ain't like that no more. I ain't the same, Ned. Claudia, she straightened me up, cleared me of drinkin' whiskey and all. Just 'cause we're goin' on this killing, that don't mean I'm gonna go back to bein' the way I was. I just need the money, get a new start for them youngsters. Ned, you remember that drover I shot through the mouth and his teeth came out the back of his head? I think about him now and again. He didn't do anything to deserve to get shot, at least nothin' I could remember when I sobered up.

Ned Logan: You were crazy, Will.

Will Munny: Yeah, no one liked me. Mountain boys all thought I was gonna shoot 'em out of pure meanness.

Ned Logan: Well, like I said, you ain't like that no more.

Will Munny: That's right. I'm just a fella now. I ain't no different than anyone else no more.
 
just one. i asked the guy if i could try his cue out and dogged a ball so i smashed it. i finished the set with my cue and left!
 
I'm no saint, but I've been known to toss my cue on an adjacent table after a poor shot while uttering a profanity under my breath. A friend of mine pretends to use his Lucasi as a white stick (a stick used by the visually impaired) after dogging an easy shot.

I remember playing league for the bar my buddy owned. This guy on the other team couldn't make anything happen the first two games (it was BCA format). I remember him having a nice Schon. But I don't think any cue would have helped him that day.
Third game he plays my buddy, Junior, the bar owner. Breaks, comes up dry (again), and my buddy starts to get out on him. Junior chokes on the ball before the 8, and when this kid gets up to the table, he's almost drooling (nothing's touching, no pockets are blocked, etc.). Should be an easy out for this kid, I'm thinking. This is redemption for him after the first two games. He gets out with a run, and his team is gonna feed off of that for the remainder of the night.
The kid surveys the table, picks (in my opinion) the right 1st shot, leans down, takes a couple practice strokes, and MISCUES !! Now, I don't know if he broke up with his girlfriend that day, got fired, or what. All I know is that the gods of pool simply had no mercy with this kid on this night.
Junior makes the last ball and the eight. The kid shakes Junior's hand, walks back to his stool, picks up his Schon, grabs the butt end like a baseball bat, and swings for the cheap seats into the DART MACHINES !! Pieces of shaft went flying everywhere !! This kid swung the cue so hard that a couple large chunks of the shaft flew BEHIND THE BAR, 15 feet behind the line to stand for throwing darts !!
He shoved the butt end of the Schon (with about 3 inches of shaft left on it) into his case, and stormed out, never saying a word.

All of us, including the guys left on his team, just kinda stood there for a minute digesting everything. A few of us (mostly the guys from his team) started to pick up the pieces of shaft, and as we got closer to the dart machine, noticed the 3/4 inch dent in the machine from the butt. It was one of the most unbelieveable things I'd ever seen (at the time).

I still have the piece of the shaft from the first four inches of the tip. I turned it into a pocket chalker. And every time I miss a shot, I look at my chalker and remember that story.
 
i have a 23 yr old mcdermott i had been using for 14.1 games, when playing to 50 balls with a friend, i'm down to the last 5 balls to win, "no problem to run out now", miss an easy 12 inch shot into the corner and with both hands, throw the cue to the concrete floor! :angry: to my dismay, it did not break! it bounced across the floor but came out unharmed. :sorry: it was then it hit me, "not the cues fault". so i beat myself up instead! :D
 
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