**Reminder** Always keep an eye out for your cues

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c.parker

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The other night me and a friend wanted to go out and watch the UFC Fight at a bar/pool hall. We get there, set up our cues in my porper cue rack and play for about two hours. My friend goes to the restroom and I have my back turned to our table just hitting balls and practicing. I look up and from the reflection in the window I see a guy walk up and grab my Mezz cue from my rack and walk towards his group of friends. :mad: Alarmed, I turn around and follow him to his table and tell him that's my cue. None of the house cues look anything like my cue and for crying out loud it's sitting in my portable rack. This leads me to believe his intentions were not innocent. I have a few choice words to say and he returns my cue. If it were my cheap cue I probably would have beat him with it.

Anyways, that's the end of my rant and just want to remind everyone to keep an eye on their belongings. You never know, people these days... Would hate for this to happen to anyone and possibly lose something.
 
Thanks for sharing this. I have set my cue on a table while waiting for a game and watched someone just walk over and pick it up. I was sitting about 10 feet away. The cue looked nothing like a house cue. I had to get up and chase him down, and let him know that it was my cue. His response, "Well, I didn't know." Duh
 
A waitress at a Fast Eddies picked up my break cue one night and put it on the wall with the house cues. Luckily I found it rather quickly.
 
Good point CP. Although most of us tend to try and look after each others stuff, it still happens.
On a lighter note, however, I'm reminded of a girl I once knew in Panama who had a glass eye. We would spend so many wonderful afternoons together, but the one thing I most remember was her fond farewell when I would leave. "Hey sailor, I'll keep an eye out for you." :wink:
 
^^^THats too funny... Heck I get mad when someone comes and grabs my chalk of the table im playing on! lol, I know i'm petty
 
lol.....Yeah that reminds me of words a pool player friend of mine once told me. When your at bar son, you gotta keep ya old lady close and your cue even closer.....lol
 
Seriously, though....this should serve as a gentle reminder that tournament time is here...... every year at the different National tournaments in Vegas (and others) you hear the horror stories about cues/cases/purses going missing :mad:..... please keep an eye out - not only for your stuff - but for your opponents & neighbors! Players take breaks during matches to run to the restroom and come back only to find their cues/cue ball/purse, etc.... gone and no one around them noticed!

Tammie
 
Probably a bad idea.........but

I have seen and heard this type of horror story since I first started playing way back when. I'm certain there are those that make cue theft a profitable sideline. I've seen the shows on TV where they use a "Bait" car to entice would be thieves........what about a "Bait" cue left out in an establishment where this is known to happen........then 3 or 4 folks can explain how the cue is actually a rectal thermometer......and demonstrate proper insertion of same......Dan
 
I shot with an SP predator for years. Had to watch it at all times. I've had people grab it from my holder when my back was turned. I really don't expect them to know the difference but I was shooting with it!! lol
 
I usually take my most valuable items with me - e.g. wallet, cell phone, keys - when taking a bathroom break. Even at my local league. And I keep an eye on my valuables like a hawk when at the table or the bar. I cover my cue case with my jacket and pack away both cues before leaving sight of them. I usually arrive at the venue early so I can buy a drink and take a leak before most folks arrive, meaning I have to spend less time away from my stuff later on. Also usually guarantees a parking spot ;)
 
When I was 17, I played some snooker around 4am at a 24hr pool hall in Canada against a guy who I was up two games; $40.00. I went to the washroom and came back to the table with my cue and case gone. Not to mention the $40.00 I won. I learnt two things that day.
Mark
 
It is disturbing to find that in a bar/pool hall that there are people they let in off the street that do not have a clue what they are doing.

Stupid people... right off the street... they let them in and then everyone is surprised when these Stupid people do Stupid things.

Playgrounds are for kids. Kids will act like kids as long as they are kids. Put alcohol in the mix and the Kids just act like kids longer.

Stupid people... they need to find a place for themselves to play in instead of our bars/pool halls.

Tongue firmly planted in cheek... :scratchhead:
 
With technology today, somebody needs to design cue-jack......take a weight bolt, turn it into a transmitter with a nice 50 mile radius.....I ain't not techie, but this would be a valuable service for people with nice cues...

My break cue is an old house cue that has been reworked....and my player is an old tru-balance rendering - I have to watch them like a hawk, they look too much like the stuff on the wall at the pool hall....luckily, most of my buds are really great and we all take care of each others stuff...
 
c.parker said:
The other night me and a friend wanted to go out and watch the UFC Fight at a bar/pool hall. We get there, set up our cues in my porper cue rack and play for about two hours. My friend goes to the restroom and I have my back turned to our table just hitting balls and practicing. I look up and from the reflection in the window I see a guy walk up and grab my Mezz cue from my rack and walk towards his group of friends. :mad: Alarmed, I turn around and follow him to his table and tell him that's my cue. None of the house cues look anything like my cue and for crying out loud it's sitting in my portable rack. This leads me to believe his intentions were not innocent. I have a few choice words to say and he returns my cue. If it were my cheap cue I probably would have beat him with it.

Anyways, that's the end of my rant and just want to remind everyone to keep an eye on their belongings. You never know, people these days... Would hate for this to happen to anyone and possibly lose something.
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This happens all the time. In fact there have been at least 3 prior threads on this. I have seen it many times in person.

For the most part they are not trying to steal. Most dont even know that people have their own cues. I had to explain to a guy who did the above that it was not 'my cue' because i was using it but my cue because i bought it. It took a while but he finally understood.

While we are on the subject-Everyone be extra careful in Vegas. With the crowds and all, it's real easy to pick up a case and casually walk away.
 
happens fairly regularly. :-( I once had a guy take a my cue in a bar and try to "hide" it around a corner...

I stumbled into him carrying it into a bathroom, asked him WTF are you doing MF ?? THat's not yours... Snatched it out of his hand, he replied with the "oh sorry I thought it was a house cue" to which I say So WTF re you taking it into the bathroom?!?" he says.... " I didn't want anyone to take it while I was in the bathroom" LOLOLOL. I literally laughed... and took my cue...

so later that night (and this guy was a reasonably respectable looking older dude, not just some young punk I might expect to brazenly steal something) he gets drunk and come to find out some people he knew hapened to know who I was... SO he comes up and says... "oh man, I just wanted to tell you Im sorry... I didnt know it was your cue... I saw it and Ive always wanted a cue like that so... I took it, but I wouldnt have if I knew it was yours"....

I mean how do you react to that??? I swear I came close to knocking him out on the spot, I had a wave of fury roll over me... Guess he noticed and offer to buy me a shot as a peace offering... reluctantly I accepted 3 of them from him...
 
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