Losing and Finding Your Cue-Stick Stories

Covelo

Covelo

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I recently left my stick in-case on top of my car when leaving my house for a 9-ball tournament the other day and forgot it was there. I heard a funny noise after driving about a block, but just assumed it was my sunroof making the noise in the wind. After traveling about a 1/2 hour, and getting close to the tournament location, I finally realized that it was nowhere to be found. I quickly remembered where I heard that funny sound and called back home to have someone there have a quick check to see if was where I suspected... no dice.

I decided to post up a LOST POOL CUE $REWARD$ sign on the telephone pole where I thought it was, and sure enough I received a call the next day by the person with the cue! I guess people these days are not as bad they get the reputation for being. I also have found that most people seem to have a lot of respect when they find out that you're a pool/billiards player in tournaments and such. -What have you guys found to be the case?

By the way, the cue in question was an 80's 4-point curly-maple Mali with a nice ivory farrel. The case was a nice (now with a few more dings) "It's George" Ostrich skin, single butt and shaft design.

I was also wondering what other amazing lost and found stories you all might have... I'm sure there must be quite a few.

Covelo
 
I think I'm going to have to go out and find a case like yours. I had a cue stolen from me a couple of years ago that was never returned:( Unfortunatly, not all people are honest.

As for playing pool, the doctors I used to work with used to love the idea that a girl could play pool. They would ask me questions daily and one of them even used to practice with me on a weekly basis. He was a good practice partner and surprisingly shot like a decent B player. To bad he moved to Boston because he was good looking to.
 
There was a long thread here about my fiasco. I'm still amazed that I got it back. We need a pool cue "Lo-Jack" system. :)
 
Jimmy M. said:
There was a long thread here about my fiasco. I'm still amazed that I got it back. We need a pool cue "Lo-Jack" system. :)
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Nice,... where is that thread?
 
hilla_hilla said:
I think I'm going to have to go out and find a case like yours. I had a cue stolen from me a couple of years ago that was never returned:( Unfortunatly, not all people are honest.

As for playing pool, the doctors I used to work with used to love the idea that a girl could play pool. They would ask me questions daily and one of them even used to practice with me on a weekly basis. He was a good practice partner and surprisingly shot like a decent B player. To bad he moved to Boston because he was good looking to.
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Yeah, I think people respect pool players so much because they realize the accuracy and self-control involved because they have tried it before themselves. I would venture to say that pool/billiards may be the game/sport that requires the most accuracy of any other in the world.
 
When I lived in NY, I was coming home on a Friday night from practicing and stopped at a corner store to get some cat food. The next morning, when I could not find my cue case, I realized I must have set my cue down in the store and left it there. I ran up there but they said they did not have it and I was devastated. I had brought it home (I had a locker at the pool room and usually left it there) because I was suppose to play in a tournament that weekend. I called my friend, saying I was too upset but she said she would loan me a cue and I decided to go ahead and play.
I got much commiserating & sympathy from my pool friends and have no memory of how I played.
The next morning I turned over and saw my cue case leaning just inside my closet! I realized I had been distracted by roommate when I came home that Friday night and had set it in there with out realizing it!!!
I was beyond relieved and of course ecstatic. It taught me to be more careful and aware of my cue when ever I had it with me.
 
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A few years ago, I had 2 cues stolen from my booth at the BCA Nationals in Las Vegas valued around $5000.00.

8 months later, a guy came into my booth at South Padre Island in Texas, wanting to sell a cue.

Before he said anything else, I told him that he looked very familiar and that I had seen him somewhere. He said I must have mistaken him for somebody else. He then showed me the cue that he wanted to sell. It was one of the 2 cues stolen from me in Las Vegas. I knew that cue because I personally designed that cue and knew everything there is to know about it.

I then told him that I would give him 2 options, a little cash reward in exchange for the cue and we'll call it even. Or I will call the police and take it back.

He said go ahead and call the police, which I did. When the detective came, the guy tried to lie about the cue. Unfortunately for him, he didn't know much about cues in general, let alone that particular cue. And I happened to know everything about that particular cue since I designed it. So the more he tried, the bigger the hole he got into.

Finally, the detective placed him under arrest, searched his cue case and found my other stolen cue (since I still had the original shafts with matching ring works for that cue, which I happened to carry them with me).

In the end, I got both cues back, and he was charged with Grand Theft due to the large value of the cues. That Show was a big loss, but I got my cues back.
 
Michael-Hoang said:
A few years ago, I had 2 cues stolen from my booth at the BCA Nationals in Las Vegas valued around $5000.00.

8 months later, a guy came into my booth at South Padre Island in Texas, wanting to sell a cue.

Before he said anything else, I told him that he looked very familiar and that I had seen him somewhere. He said I must have mistaken him for somebody else. He then showed me the cue that he wanted to sell. It was one of the 2 cues stolen from me in Las Vegas. I knew that cue because I personally designed that cue and knew everything there is to know about it.

I then told him that I would give him 2 options, a little cash reward in exchange for the cue and we'll call it even. Or I will call the police and take it back.

He said go ahead and call the police, which I did. When the detective came, the guy tried to lie about the cue. Unfortunately for him, he didn't know much about cues in general, let alone that particular cue. And I happened to know everything about that particular cue since I designed it. So the more he tried, the bigger the hole he got into.

Finally, the detective placed him under arrest, searched his cue case and found my other stolen cue (since I still had the original shafts with matching ring works for that cue, which I happened to carry them with me).

In the end, I got both cues back, and he was charged with Grand Theft due to the large value of the cues. That Show was a big loss, but I got my cues back.
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Wow! Great story! I'm glad you got your cues back.
 
cuechick said:
I realized I had been distracted by roommate when I came home that Friday night and had set it in there with out realizing it!!!
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So what was it your roommate was doing to distract you? Was it a late night lingerie pillow fight? I hear that's common with women. :D J/K I bet you thought your were dreaming for a moment! Good story, and glad you got your cue back from yourself.
 
Covelo said:
After traveling about a 1/2 hour, and getting close to the tournament location.

Covelo
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If you live in Covelo, half an hour is still only close to Covelo, isn't it?
 
Looseing Something!

Well this thread brings back memory's, "which I would like to forget", have more then once left my "sneeky pete" at the bar or tavern I was playing , only to come back the next day and find it placed in the rack by the "Barmaid" at closing time!......lucky!...lucky!...lucky!..me!:eek:

Only today!... was I at a "Liquior Store" and about to drive off and this young guy came running out "Sir you left your Wallet".......had $760.00 in it.....fliped him $40.00 and smiled.....thinkng to myself...maybe too much of the "Spirit's",.. the cause of all this!......lol:rolleyes:



David Harcrow
 
cyrex said:
So what was it your roommate was doing to distract you? Was it a late night lingerie pillow fight? I hear that's common with women.
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why do you assume my roommate was a woman? ;)
 
Something close to this happened to one of my regulars at my room in Davie, Fl. He left the room headed to a league match. About thirty minutes later he called and said he couldn't find his cue (an expensive Joss and case). He seemed to remember putting it on top of his car and asked me to check the parking lot to see if it fell off when he was leaving. I looked but it wasn't there.

He was sick about losing his cue but he stayed and played his match with a bar cue. On his way back to the room he happened to glance over at the gas station where he had stopped earlier to get gas. As unbelieveable as it sounds, there sat his case propped up against the pump he had used. He was surprised to find the cue still in the case. Apparently it had fallen off the car as he left the station and someone just set it by the pump. It had been sitting there for about two hours.
 
bsmutz said:
If you live in Covelo, half an hour is still only close to Covelo, isn't it?
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Yeah, Covelo is out there in the sticks. I used to travel 2 1/2 hours just to play a weekly tournament sometimes from there. I actually used to win it quite often like that. That's how I got my nickname "Covelo Joe".

Now, I actually stay in Sonoma, CA, and was traveling over to Buffalo Billiards in Cotati that eventful day. I actually ended up borrowing a friend's break cue at the tournament and won with it.


---I knew there would be a lot interesting stories like we have here, and it seems like many times the cues somehow end up coming back to us, one way or the other.
 
M HOUSE said:
Something close to this happened to one of my regulars at my room in Davie, Fl. He left the room headed to a league match. About thirty minutes later he called and said he couldn't find his cue (an expensive Joss and case). He seemed to remember putting it on top of his car and asked me to check the parking lot to see if it fell off when he was leaving. I looked but it wasn't there.

He was sick about losing his cue but he stayed and played his match with a bar cue. On his way back to the room he happened to glance over at the gas station where he had stopped earlier to get gas. As unbelieveable as it sounds, there sat his case propped up against the pump he had used. He was surprised to find the cue still in the case. Apparently it had fallen off the car as he left the station and someone just set it by the pump. It had been sitting there for about two hours.
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Yeah, that's the kind of story I'm talking about... it has a strange ring of familiarity to it somehow???;) But, that's the kind of gesture that shows that people really do respect pool players, despite what Holywood has to say about it.
 
Yeah, I've got the grand poobah of lost/stolen cues.

A friend of mine was in a tournament down in Osaka. After the tournament they all went out to eat. When he came out of the restaurant he noticed that his car had been broken into. Needless to say his cue case was gone. Here's the hard part. Inside the case was a $25,000 8 point Black Boar loaded with ivory, silver, and malachite.

Anyway, he owns a pool room. A few months pass and one of his customers calls and says that he found his cue on Yahoo auction. So he loads the page and sure enough there is his black boar, his case, and his break cue. No mistake that it's his, the case is fairly unique and there's a sticker on the case that says BB Billiards.....which is the name of his pool room. No relation to Black Boar. The starting price on the auction was.............$30.00. He contacted the seller and told them that that was his cue and it had been stolen. Turns out that the person putting it up on auction was a recycle shop.....similar to a pawn shop. The sent him contact information and he called and described everything down to a T so they took it off the auction and sent it back to him. Turns out that the guy that stole the cue knew nothing about cues so he took it to this recycle shop. They in turn knew nothing about cues and told my friend that they paid the guy 30 bucks for the entire set because, get this, the case seemed like real leather so they thought it was a bargain. Oddly enough in their description on the web page it said that it was a BB cue, not Black Boar, BB. With his pool room's sticker on the case and the BB logo on the cue they thought it was a company called BB. Can you imagine picking up a $25,000 cue for 30 bucks? He was lucky.
MULLY
 
mullyman said:
Yeah, I've got the grand poobah of lost/stolen cues.

A friend of mine was in a tournament down in Osaka. After the tournament they all went out to eat. When he came out of the restaurant he noticed that his car had been broken into. Needless to say his cue case was gone. Here's the hard part. Inside the case was a $25,000 8 point Black Boar loaded with ivory, silver, and malachite.

Anyway, he owns a pool room. A few months pass and one of his customers calls and says that he found his cue on Yahoo auction. So he loads the page and sure enough there is his black boar, his case, and his break cue. No mistake that it's his, the case is fairly unique and there's a sticker on the case that says BB Billiards.....which is the name of his pool room. No relation to Black Boar. The starting price on the auction was.............$30.00. He contacted the seller and told them that that was his cue and it had been stolen. Turns out that the person putting it up on auction was a recycle shop.....similar to a pawn shop. The sent him contact information and he called and described everything down to a T so they took it off the auction and sent it back to him. Turns out that the guy that stole the cue knew nothing about cues so he took it to this recycle shop. They in turn knew nothing about cues and told my friend that they paid the guy 30 bucks for the entire set because, get this, the case seemed like real leather so they thought it was a bargain. Oddly enough in their description on the web page it said that it was a BB cue, not Black Boar, BB. With his pool room's sticker on the case and the BB logo on the cue they thought it was a company called BB. Can you imagine picking up a $25,000 cue for 30 bucks? He was lucky.
MULLY
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What an interesting story there. There almost seems to be something mystical going on here with these stories. Whatever the case may be, they are indications to me that we must be on the right t-rack.
 
My previous playing cue was a very old Joss cue, dated from circa 68-72. It was a great hitting steel jointed cue. Anyways, I was at the Florida tour event in Deerfield Beach and I just got eliminated. I broke my cue down and a few friends who had been watching the match came over to talk to me. I hadnt put my cue in my case, only my break cue and i started rolling the butt and shaft on the table absent mindedly while i talked with my buddies. I ended up rolling the cue up against the rail and then forgot about it and left the pool room. Drove 1hr home, ate dinner, watched a movie and went to bed. The next day I go to case to get my watch (i take off my watch when I play) and my case feels light. I then realize i have left my cue at the pool room.

I was pretty sick about it and was sure the cue was gone. My wife says to me ..call up there and see if anyone found it. Im like right...a 1960s Joss cue will be turned in :rolleyes: . Call up there she says again, so I did. I was shocked to find out that yes a cue had been found. The waitress found it and was standing there going whos cue is this and Dennis Searing was right there and said thats Dave Uwate's cue. He took the cue and I got it back from him. I still have that cue, im going to give it to one of my sons when they get older. Its already 40 years old and I still cannot believe today that I didnt lose it that day.
 
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