LoJack For Cues?

I like the pet chip idea,,,,would only work if someone recognized or even saw the cue again...

how do cues get stolen ?........young punks around here carry empty cases into a pool hall, put someone's stick in and 'out-the-door',,,,have caught 3 'stolen' cues myself...
I have a good memory and recognize sticks sold by me...one turned out to 'not' be stolen; seems junior forgot to tell mommy he lost his cue in a 9 ball game,,,,LOL
 
I hate theives.

However, some people (not everyone) bring it upon themselves to some degree.

I know several people that when they play in a pool tourny, they will leave their case, jacket, and anything else near/at the same table they 'warmed up' on when they first arrived. And then, when you play a match at their first table, ya gotta more their shit so you can sit down.

4-5 hours later, they go back and get their stuff.

It's understandable in a small place with 2-4 tables. But with a poolhall with 30 tables? What are they thinking?
 
MFB said:
What are they thinking?
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They were thinking they could trust mankind. I sort of understand what you're saying , but I hate blaming the victim of a crime.

Maybe we should go Thirld World and cut off the hands everytime they steal something. But they'll just steal it with their hook.

Jim
 
Mr. Wilson said:
There are "chips" that pet owners can have implanted into their pets that when scanned, relay info about the owner, pedigree, health...etc.Dave
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RFID chips. Maybe the ACA could sell them to the cuemakers, who implant them, and then the ACA could maintain a database of sold cues. Otherwise, it would cause a lot of overhead for the individual cue makers.

Many cue makers use the old fashioned RFID method: engraving a number on the cue. This will lead to a provenance as good as the one you get with a microchip...

-td
 
jhendri2 said:
They were thinking they could trust mankind. I sort of understand what you're saying , but I hate blaming the victim of a crime.

Maybe we should go Thirld World and cut off the hands everytime they steal something. But they'll just steal it with their hook.

Jim
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Ha-ha. Maybe just a 'T' tatooed on their forehead.
 
jhendri2 said:
They were thinking they could trust mankind. I sort of understand what you're saying , but I hate blaming the victim of a crime.

Maybe we should go Thirld World and cut off the hands everytime they steal something. But they'll just steal it with their hook.

Jim
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I understand what you are saying about blaming the victim, but it reaches a point where the "victim" is so careless that they are aiding the criminal. I went to a funeral a few months ago for a police officer who was killed chasing a stolen car. The car was stolen from a resident who left it running in their driveway. The police and city hall had made every effort to make people aware not to leave their car running, yet this person chose to ignore them and "trust mankind". So who's the victim? The guy who left his car running or the cop who died because of his stupidity?

The Main Post Office in St Louis had a problem a couple years ago with carjackings. They had some mailboxes on the sidewalk and people would pull up to the sidewalk, get out of the car and leave it running while they walked over to the mailbox to mail a letter. Carjackers waited until they saw a car they liked and took it. The Post Office tried putting signs up warning people not to leave their keys in the car, didn't do any good. So, finally the City PD and the Post Office decided to move the mailboxes and then the customers complained about the new inconvenient location of the mailboxes.

I dealt with mankind for over 30 years until I retired, and I trust mankind to behave in a certain manner based on past performance. Would you leave $500 in cash laying on a pool table and walk away from it? That's the same thing as leaving a $500 dollar cue laying there.
 
alstl said:
I understand what you are saying about blaming the victim, but it reaches a point where the "victim" is so careless that they are aiding the criminal. I went to a funeral a few months ago for a police officer who was killed chasing a stolen car. The car was stolen from a resident who left it running in their driveway. The police and city hall had made every effort to make people aware not to leave their car running, yet this person chose to ignore them and "trust mankind". So who's the victim? The guy who left his car running or the cop who died because of his stupidity?

The Main Post Office in St Louis had a problem a couple years ago with carjackings. They had some mailboxes on the sidewalk and people would pull up to the sidewalk, get out of the car and leave it running while they walked over to the mailbox to mail a letter. Carjackers waited until they saw a car they liked and took it. The Post Office tried putting signs up warning people not to leave their keys in the car, didn't do any good. So, finally the City PD and the Post Office decided to move the mailboxes and then the customers complained about the new inconvenient location of the mailboxes.

I dealt with mankind for over 30 years until I retired, and I trust mankind to behave in a certain manner based on past performance. Would you leave $500 in cash laying on a pool table and walk away from it? That's the same thing as leaving a $500 dollar cue laying there.
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The dead cop AND the car owner were BOTH victims.

And as for the Post Office story...why didn't the cops sit there, too, and catch the fuckers? Oh, just move the boxes to an inconvenient location, a typical response to crime: make it harder on the innocent.

I lock up most of my stuff, but I hate it. It waste time and money and would not be necessary if assholes didn't start trouble.

And...how about this....don't buy stolen cues!...you know who you are. :mad:

If nobody started trouble, there'd be little of it.

Jeff Livingston
 
Many years ago a guy on our team had something he would do when we went out of town to play. He had one of those personal alarms hooked up to his case somehow. I don't remember if it was set off by vibration, or if it was a cord he had to attach to something, but I do remember if someone tried to snatch the guys case, that alarm would start screeching, and let everyone know that someone was trying to walk off with It. something like that could possibly be built into a case.

The pet chip is a good one, love to see the guys face that took a cue, when you walk up on him, and tell him you know he's got your cue, and where he has it at. :eek: :D

Greg
 
we need a small chip that uses gps technology so that the cue/case can be tracked via your computer
 
People sometimes joke with me about me taking my cues to the bathroom, but since I started doing that I have not had one stolen. I once asked my friend to watch my cues that were on display behind my mobile cue repair proshop while I played a tournament match. Came back and found a couple of cues gone. We had the 9 foot table rented right next to where I was set up. But someone wanted to play him some $2 nine ball on a bar table. So he moved over about 20 feet from my stuff and "tried to keep an eye on it" while playing $2 bar table nine ball. All the while we were still splitting $10 an hour table time on the 9 footer.
Chris
www.hightowercues.com
www.internationalcuemakers.com
 
How about a Chip like you Inject in a Pet, for when they are lost. That can be identified with a Scanner?
 
How about a fingerprint recognition system in the butt of the cue and a taser that would zap anyone who wasn't in the fingerprint database...and then a cell phone, too, that would call the cops and give the 10-20.

Breaker breaker...got a cue stick taker...and he's playin' on 43. I'll hammer him down like I have wings, with the pebbles in my wheels goin' dinga ding ding...

Jeff, the southern Iowa gravedigger, Livingston
 
alstl said:
This is one thing that surprises me. How do people get their cues/cases stolen?
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This is one thing that makes me wonder aswell...If I had a high dollar cue it wouldn't leave my sight or side...it would take a tinkle with me also...;)
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Why don't we?

Make multiple inquiries to Security Companies on the web about what they could do for security of our cues? Hit the right company with it, and they may invent something that could work.
 
Wow, talk about old thread resurrection. I forgot I started this topic.

Anyway, there's got to be something that can be done. With all the technology these days, you'd think there'd be a microchip that can be tracked from your cell phone.

Jim
 
jhendri2 said:
With all of the theft of cues/cases going on, it sure would be nice if LoJack would invent something for cues. Maybe something under the joint or inlaid under the wrap. I know it would probably never work.

You could always put one in your case, but that would mean you'd only get your case back.

How about we just shoot all of the theives, maybe that would work the best.

Jim
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These are what you need to identify your cues. Check out the link.
http://www.datadotdna.com/dtl_technology_why_pi.htm

TommyT:cool:
 
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