Howard Vickery

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I'm watching an old match on youtube with Efren vs Howard. Does anyone know the real story on Howard? I heard sex offender (kids?) but I'm hoping someone knows for sure.
 
This name is generally avoided on the AZB forum, much in the same way that Shakespearean actors do everything in their power to avoid mentioning the real name of what they refer to as "the Scottish play."

No real need to further discredit him. The less said the better.
 
This name is generally avoided on the AZB forum, much in the same way that Shakespearean actors do everything in their power to avoid mentioning the real name of what they refer to as "the Scottish play."

No real need to further discredit him. The less said the better.
Agree. Mods feel free to delete the thread. No disrespect to the OP but the less said about this whole ordeal the better.
 
Agree. Mods feel free to delete the thread. No disrespect to the OP but the less said about this whole ordeal the better.
I have no idea about his crime, but he was one of the nicest guys on tour 30 years ago. He played steady under pressure and was usually rated in the lower top 20s on tour.
 
I have no idea about his crime, but he was one of the nicest guys on tour 30 years ago. He played steady under pressure and was usually rated in the lower top 20s on tour.
You mess with kids you're one sick pos. Don't care about 30yrs ago. Who's to say this maggot wasn't doing this shit back then?? I'm done. Feel like i need shower just thinking about it.
 
I have no idea about his crime, but he was one of the nicest guys on tour 30 years ago. He played steady under pressure and was usually rated in the lower top 20s on tour.
You sound like the neighbors when someone murders their family after years of abuse

"Oh, he was such a nice man, we had no idea"
 
Agree. Mods feel free to delete the thread. No disrespect to the OP but the less said about this whole ordeal the better.
The question about him comes up every once in a while.

No need to delete the thread.

Close it to further comments maybe, but leave the thread so it can be searched.

It may keep people from asking, if they can do a search and find the answer.
 
I don’t care to know anything more about the man. The link in this thread is all I’ll ever need to know. Don’t care about his stroke, cueball control, life story, tournament finishes, gambling achievements, nothing. He never existed in pool as far as I’m concerned.
 
He was a Viet Nam veteran if I’m not mistaken, not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.

I remember seeing him down a Planet 9 Ball down in Tampa when Buddy had some interest in the place.
This was back in the 90’s.
 
it is certainly criminal what he did. but it comes from a mental sickness that cant be cured.
 
When he made it to the TV rounds of the Brunswick World Open in 1989,he was already trying to use the technology available to give himself an edge on the break,in the form of a supposedly Titanium shafted Benson break cue.

Earl smoked him with the nicest Meucci I ever saw him with LOL. Tommy D.
 
it is certainly criminal what he did. but it comes from a mental sickness that cant be cured.

Which is why these people need to be put away forever or maybe given a lobotomy. I knew a guy about ten years. He was in a neighboring state and it was a far trip across Texas so we might have met a dozen times in that ten years but talked often on forums and in e-mails, pretty much daily. 99% the most outstanding individual on a forum as big as AZB. He came on the forum and said that he was charged with a felony and was guilty. In an hour or two there was a full page of people offering him a place to stay, any other help he needed. He was the Smorgassbored of that forum, or so everyone thought. When somebody in New Orleans offered him a place to stay I posted that he couldn't come to New Orleans, children I loved in southeast Louisiana!

A dead spot on the forum then tons of hasty retractions. Everybody assumed that any felony Bill had been guilty of had been of the manly type, not a shorteyes offense. After molesting a four to six year old that thought of him as her grandfather the best deal he could get was 13 years. His hands were ruined and he was medium sized at best, prison wasn't going to go well for him. He went out in the desert and blew his brains out, one child molester cured! I still miss the Bill I thought I knew. One percent monster outweighed the 99% good guy though. I think he did what was best for everyone when he blew his brains out. The girl was fourteen then and she knew she never had to fear him again.

With no cure I don't know what we do with the people like howard who have supposedly paid their debt to society. I will never shake his hand, I think I would forfeit in a tournament rather than play with him. No way in hell I gamble with him or socialize with him. He, and everyone like him, are time bombs waiting to go off and commit another similar crime or worse.

We can't look at someone or socialize with them the short time we see them in a pool hall and recognize these people. Not knowing details seven years seem way too short. These crimes deserve the death penalty, doesn't matter if the person is sick or not. Natural life would probably let his fellow inmates take care of things for us.

Answers I have none. I met Bill on a varmint hunting forum. I told him blunt and plainly that if he came to southeast Louisiana he would be classified as a varmint. He knew me well enough to know I wasn't woofing.

We never know the paths of pain these people leave behind. They are very seldom a one time offender.

Hu
 
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