I’m calling foul

I’m going ball in hand for the opponent. That would be the same to me if the cueball hit a piece of chalk and came back on the table or jumped up and hit the light and came back on the table. The error is still with the shooter and the layout the opponent is coming to the table is still an act of randomness. I’d only consider a rebreak of the same player if the bystander intentionally interfered with the game by catching the ball and throwing it on the table as an overt act.
 
Foul under WPA/CSI.

Jumped ball that "contacted something that's not part of the table".

I'd be hoping like hell that my opponent hadn't been paying attention though! 😁
 
In seriousness, a foul when anything not part of the table is hit. I have seen contact with the light played both ways.

I have to admit I have taken fouls many times for people crowding my table, particularly while breaking. Nothing like a power break that jumps from the cue tip and flies over the whole rack and hits somebody in the 'nads. Get the hell away from my table.

Hu
 
in the pool room, no foul as long as balls end up on the table. old school rules.

new proper rules, foul.

bad on the breaker for hitting when someone is in front of you. too dangerous.
ive seen a few put their stick across the table when racking to keep the guy from breaking instead of telling him not to come to the table until gone. cue ball automatically goes airborne right at the racker. bloody faces, lucky they lived.
 
ShootingArts said:
I have to admit I have taken fouls many times for people crowding my table, particularly while breaking. Nothing like a power break that jumps from the cue tip and flies over the whole rack and hits somebody in the 'nads. Get the hell away from my table.
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You can intentionally hit things that are off the table? Sometimes I can't hit things that are *on* the table.
 
WPA https://wpapool.com/rules/

8.5 Driven off the Table​


A ball is considered driven off the table if it comes to rest other than on the playing surface but is not pocketed.
A ball is also considered driven off the table if it would have been driven off the table except for striking an object
such as a light fixture, piece of chalk or a player which causes it to return to the table.

A ball that contacts the top of the rail is not considered to have been driven off the table
if it returns to the playing surface or enters a pocket
 
I hit a break once that the cue ball went straight up and busted a bulb in the light then came straight back down on the table. I called a foul on myself but my opponent said he would rather re rack after we had the table vacuumed. I was a little embarrassed by it actually.
 
ShootingArts said:
I have to admit I have taken fouls many times for people crowding my table, particularly while breaking. Nothing like a power break that jumps from the cue tip and flies over the whole rack and hits somebody in the 'nads. Get the hell away from my table.
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Playing a buddy of mine in a tournament once, he had asked some drunk dude to move out of the way several times and drunk dude refused. Next time my buddy breaks, drunk dude is at the foot of the table holding a full beer and that's exactly where the cue ball ended up. Glass and beer everywhere, and we almost had a brawl break out over it.
 
Sheldon said:
Playing a buddy of mine in a tournament once, he had asked some drunk dude to move out of the way several times and drunk dude refused. Next time my buddy breaks, drunk dude is at the foot of the table holding a full beer and that's exactly where the cue ball ended up. Glass and beer everywhere, and we almost had a brawl break out over it.
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I shattered a beer mug without touching it. I was bending over to place the cue ball to break when somebody came up behind me and took a great personal liberty. I snatched up the cue ball and spun with the original intention of breaking their face with the cue ball. As I spun with the punch starting out head high I realized I didn't want to do this. He was holding a mug almost full of beer. I changed directions and whipped the cue ball into the top of the beer mug. It didn't hit the glass but the beer in the glass had to go somewhere. It hydralicked and the beer mug exploded! I didn't see a piece of glass anywhere bigger than a dime, with the exception of the handle still in his hand. He and everything nearby was covered in beer and glass. Fortunately, he didn't realize he had a pretty nasty weapon in his hand!

Just as well he was too surprised to fight, he was a big oilfield roughneck.

Hu
 
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