Share your or spectated mishaps

Bazooka Tooth

Bazooka Tooth

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This thread could go all different directions, but it should be fun...These don't have to be mishaps on the table, just things that happened in the pool hall...Actually mishaps isn't the right word....Just share some funny stories I suppose...


I have two great stories that come to mind...

I was out shooting pool with a buddy and he was all bouncy and looked hopped up on caffeine and he started to bounce his cue on the bumper and he bounced the cue tip right into his eye socket and he was bleeding real bad so we had to take him to the ER, he must have bounced it pretty damn hard to hurt his eye as bad as he did...

Do we need warnings on our cues now? lol


Another story.


At the local hall there is a condom machine in the mens bathroom and there have been thieves popping up in the area stealing nothing but money out of cars....ect

and someone walked into the bathroom and found a kid going at the condom machine padlock with some cutters...Only in Clinton Iowa....lol
 
well . . . .

I have some great stories but I'll have to check the statute of limitations and get back with you! :D :rolleyes: :D

Hu
 
On a couple of occasions, I have seen players stretching to make a shot and their shoes lost grip and they face planted on the slate. Also, the backstroke, bumper to the nards is a pool hall classic that happens on busy evenings. Just a couple of those things, not really that funny, but still make me laugh.
 
this one happened last night at league. Two of the guys on my team Neil and Justin had left their coats on one of the stools at the pool hall while shooting( it's all ball fouls so coats are a no no). Anyways some one had left a full glass of pepsi on the counter above the two coats. During the course of the night a waitress walked by there and elbowed the pepsi right onto Neil's hoodie, and seeing what she has done looks around to see if anyone saw her, so she quickly flips the hoodie over RIGHT ON TOP of Justin's coat. Both coats are pretty much screwed.


We hadn't seen her do it, but one of the members of the team we were playing ( Lil' Kenny) had. Kenny walks up to us and says, guys you aren't gonna believe this shit but that waitress just effed up both of your coats. All of us were pretty stunned, She didn't say a damn thing about it she just did the deed and walked off, so we go over and grab the coats. Sure enough, Neil's white hoodie looked like someone wiped their butt on it. At that time the waitress came back down into the pool table area to take some more orders.

Lil' Kenny snags Neil's hoodie and says "watch this, it's gonna be classic" He marches up to the offending waitress with the soiled hoodie in tow. She turns around to face him as he is almost there and gets the "deer in the headlights" look on her face. Lil' Kenny (keeping a stone face the whole time) says " excuse me ma'am ( she looks like she's about to crap her pants) do you have any club soda, some F----- A------ spilled pop all over my hoodie and I'm gonna kick some ass when I find out who it is" Luckily she didn't notice the rest of us laughing hysterically 15 feet away when she says " Well gee this is a bar so those things will happen, there are lots of drunk people wandering around you know"
Kenny, still feigning rage lets out a big OOOHHHHHH and storms back to where we're sitting. The waitress didn't come near us for the rest of the night



Jake
 
This was embarrassing at the time. Many years ago I was a 4 - 5 handicap in an APA league. In a close match I scopped the cue from center table right over the 8 and into the corner pocket. Just plain stupid playing unnecesary draw and showing off.

Wouldn't you know it the next game I did exactly the same thing again. Just wanted to crawl in a hole someplace as all my team mates simply sat there and stared at me. Yep - lost us the whole darn match !

Here is another cute one. Fellow just joined the league and thought all the coaching was really silly (he was probably a 6 handicap or so). Anyway, after about the fourth time he was coached by the whole team (it was allowed at the time) he came on a difficult position shot. He backed about four feet from the table, looked over at all the team members ready to pounce and started sucking his thumb. One of the best laughs we all ever had.
 
When I first came down to Florida from New York in 1980 I met two guys from upstate NY in an apartment complex game room. They took me to this bar in Tampa where pro wrestlers hung out. I believe it was called The Silver Dollar.

I started out playing this wrestler for $10 a game of 8 ball. After I beat him two games we raised it to $20 a game and I beat him for $60 more. He asked to play one game for a hundred, figuring he had to win one game sooner or later I guess. Anyway he loses. He threw his cue across the room and grabbed the bar-table from the side and flipped it on its side like it was a kitchen table. He did pay my after that but I almost needed to change my underwear when he turned that table over. I was positive I was next. Johnnyt
 
shoes slipping can be dangerous, there should be a warning

A player had to leave a tournament one night, as he was
stretching for a shot, and his shoes slipped. A face plant
would have been better for him. He wasn't so lucky though,
as he raked his nuts on the table pretty badly. It's a little
funny, but after a few seconds I imagine the pain, and it
changes to "not funny".

I also remember reading a story (10 years ago or so), and I
believe it happened over in England. Some guy was fooling
around standing on a stool. He fell of the stool, and a cue stick
impaled his scrotum. True story.
 
2002 Darwin Award Nominee

(15 February 2002, Russia) A 26-year-old man tried to enter a bar in Tomilino, near Moscow, carrying a concealed gun. He was stopped by an alert security guard, whereupon the man menaced the guard with the weapon. The guard kicked it out of his hands, and the gun fell onto a billiards table.
The security guard asked the players to pass the gun over to him. One of them, our Darwin Award nominee, thought the best way to accomplish this task was to pick it up with his pool cue. The gun slid down the cue stick, and its increasing thickness was sufficient to push the trigger and shoot the 19-year-old in the chest. He died immediately.

The owner of the gun said he had intended to surrender the gun to the police that day, and went to the bar in order to summon courage from alcoholic libations.
 
I was the tournament director for Mother's weekly Monday night tournament. One night a group of very young thugs walked in...maybe 10 or 12 and they looked about 16 yrs old...maybe. They walked right through the tables and started mouthing off to the regulars. Before I realized it they all grabbed pool balls off the tables & fired them through the air at everyone's heads. At one point there where like 20 balls in the air at the same time. They sounded like gunshots as they hit the walls. After a moment or two and a few punches the regulars chased them out the front door. About that time I saw Brady & Ron Park running back inside screaming "gun"...and of course you hear "BOOM BOOM BOOM" from the parking lot. Ron ran straight into the walk in cooler and held the door shut...he stayed in there for like half an hour before he came out...his nose was blue...LOL!!! Scott Lewis had dove under one of the Diamond tables for the duration. Doug Young had been playing & winning a $1500 dollar game of 1 hole on the action table and they screwed the balls up so bad they had to replay the game. That was one serious action joint but it did get a bit rough right before they closed it. The inner city thug life thought it was a night club on the weekends and it'd be standing room only...really killed off the serious players & action as they no longer were safe. We'd have gun fire in the parking lot about every weekend. I used to complain that a man should NOT have to stop under the bright lights of a gas station and check his vehicle for stray bullet holes every night on the way home from work.:eek:
 
One night around 1968 in my poolroom on Long Island, NY I had two tables going for some decent money and a crap game on the billiard table after hours. Someone (me) must have forgot to lock the back door and two guys with ski masks and guns (one sawed-off) came in. You could see they were nervous or hopped up on something. They both had their fingers on the triggers, and not loosely.

After everybody gave them their money and they were on their way out one of the guy’s from the crap game says, “Hey buddy, can you give us back a few dollars back so we can get the game stated again?” I thought the guy with the shotgun was going to shoot us until he turned back around and walked away. Johnnyt
 
Last Month, Mid Febuary, at about 12:15 My friend Mikey, myself and two other guys walked outside to shoot the sh!t and just relax from a very nice ring game in my favor. We noticed a parked car that just pulled up.
Well four guys got out of the car, they started checking car doors.
Just about that time they see us. This is a Very very big parkinglot of a nice stripmall. Well I'd be damned if it wasen't "gangsta wannabes". One of them pulled a gun and I couldn't get inside any faster. This part of Florida is starting to get pertty bad with these "Gangsta Wannabes".

The night ended with my friend joey being taken away in handcuffs along with two of the other gentlemen. That was a first for me, I have a feeling it's not the last...
-Vinnie
 
Mine happend last weds during my League match.

I was up 4-1, on the hill and breaking. I'd been playing pretty decent that nite, and Decided to give my last break some extra something. Well I wind up and goto break and miscue, Well I lost grip of my cue, bridge hand and grip hand, only to see my cue, hit the rack, and to see the CB slowly roll into the corner pocket lol.

I felt so small, cuz I was trying to do a lil showing off. Only to end up having to rack and watch my opponent break. I still won the match, but my team mates, were like, what happend? So I had to explain how i was trying to get a lil more power into my break.
 
At VF, JR from Inside Pool had just bought a video camera a couple days prior to the finals. Since there was a hotshoe, neither of us knew there was a flash by the lens, which was virtually unnoticeable. I told him I wasn't familiar with videography, only SLRs. He said I would just need to use two buttons: one for video, and another for stills. No settings were messed with, and I only pushed the two buttons per JR's instruction. Not ten minutes into the finals, I took a shot of Ronnie... and the flash went off. I was *mortified*. It was like Zeus came down from the heavens. Ronnie made the shot, but got difficult shape. He went on to win the game. I apologised to Ronnie later, who accepted my apology, and the ref later told me he knew it wasn't my fault. Corey thinks it's hilarious and teased me about it a little bit. JR and I will laugh about it for years to come, I'm sure.
 
Sweet Marissa said:
At VF, JR from Inside Pool had just bought a video camera a couple days prior to the finals. Since there was a hotshoe, neither of us knew there was a flash by the lens, which was virtually unnoticeable. I told him I wasn't familiar with videography, only SLRs. He said I would just need to use two buttons: one for video, and another for stills. No settings were messed with, and I only pushed the two buttons per JR's instruction. Not ten minutes into the finals, I took a shot of Ronnie... and the flash went off. I was *mortified*. It was like Zeus came down from the heavens. Ronnie made the shot, but got difficult shape. He went on to win the game. I apologised to Ronnie later, who accepted my apology, and the ref later told me he knew it wasn't my fault. Corey thinks it's hilarious and teased me about it a little bit. JR and I will laugh about it for years to come, I'm sure.
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I can't even read yours, your avatar is disturbing :(
 
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Bazooka,

Marissa's avatar is a bit disturbing :eek:

And I dunno, your story is more like OMG! than funny lol.

I will hafta say, I seen some bangers playing a few yrs ago, and this girl goes to break and the CB fly's off the table at warp speed and nails the guy she is with in the BALLS! I thought the guy was going to cry lol

What made it worse was it looked like a first date outing, and the guy was kinda dorky and the girl was UBER HOT!!!! Of course while the guy is rolling on the ground in pain the girl is all " are you ok"

So I know this guy got a second date, just for pitty of getting nailed in the balls.
 
whitey2 said:
A player had to leave a tournament one night, as he was
stretching for a shot, and his shoes slipped. A face plant
would have been better for him. He wasn't so lucky though,
as he raked his nuts on the table pretty badly. It's a little
funny, but after a few seconds I imagine the pain, and it
changes to "not funny".

I also remember reading a story (10 years ago or so), and I
believe it happened over in England. Some guy was fooling
around standing on a stool. He fell of the stool, and a cue stick
impaled his scrotum. True story.
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Dude....You just creeped me out!!!!
That is awful
 
:D The best one is the one i read here on AZ about 2 years ago..a guy was playing 9 ball with a HUGE man of about 500 lbs...this huge man was mostly loosing to the guy all night.the huge guy and his opponent were having one of those days where most of their shots were rattling in the pockets and NOT going in.it was really getting to the huge guy...so they were playing their last big set like 10 games for like $20.00..the little guy missed the 9 ball. the huge guy was up..the shot was straight in about 3 feet away.a shot that most people could make..the huge guy shot and the 9 started rattling in the pocket,he got so pissed he put the butt of his cue to his sternum then ran full force about 15 feet putting the tip into the wall breaking his cue and knocking him down and out on the floor..by this time the 9 ball stopped rattling and fell in the pocket making him the winner.the little guy shook his head and put the money on the guys chest and left..everybody i am sure have seen people get really mad in pool halls but can you just imagine this.LOL:D
 
StormHotRod300 said:
Bazooka,

Marissa's avatar is a bit disturbing :eek:
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That is what I meant thanks for the correction I couldnt think straight let alone type straight, and I do mean straight, I am still straight after seeing that right? :)
 
yeh, I debated a while over posting it

Onepocket73 said:
Dude....You just creeped me out!!!!
That is awful
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Yes, it is awful, and maybe I should retract it. I ended up posting it, since I
thought it might serve as a warning to what can happen. I used to play some
nightly tournaments, and would have to rush from work right to the tournament,
and would sometimes have dress shoes on, which provide very little traction.
I slipped a couple times myself when stretching for a shot, but luckily never got injured.

I'm OK with deleting the second part of the post, since although it does serve to show
what can happen when you are not thinking, it also is a little unsettling.
 
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