Tales of horror: When some MORON grabs your cue.

Oh So True!

I use to play quite a bit with a fellow un named Az'er in VA. He and I both have custom Sledgehammers. This guy kept grabbing and breaking with mine. I confronted him one time and he said that he liked mine better than his. After that I kept it on another table and out of his hands. I have several small dents in the cue that I sure as hell didn't put there. I have a playing cue from 1999 that does not have one single ding on it. Go figure guys. There are all kinds of people in this world. I still don't know what his problem is! Maybe one of you could explain it to me.
Purdman :rolleyes:

It's kinda funny. If you change one letter in the 3rd word after the : it spells his name.
 
arsenius said:
Last night some ir-regular at the pool hall grabbed my friend's Predator BK2. Before he noticed it, this guy was beating the cue against the table to get the excess chalk off! There's this big cloud of dust in the air...and like 15 dents in my friend's shaft. All the way from the joint to about 8 inches above it.

My friend was remarkably calm afterwards. Unfortunately it was hard for me to get details since he only speaks Korean. I was pissed off though. I get angry when someone just touches my cue (unless I know them of course. Or if I see them do it). I don't mind if someone grabs my sneaky pete by accident, but if they grab my playing cue... I mean, come on! They look nothing like a house cue!

So, tell me your tales of horror. What's the worst that has ever happened to you. What would you do if someone beat the crap out of your stick. Should they pay for it, or is it your fault?
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He has 2 choices. Pay me the money or pay his doctor the money.
 
My story is on the lighter side. A good number of years ago I was playing a match and it happened that I was racking the balls for my opponant. I had set my cue on an empty table that was next to us, which is better than standing it up. It was a Ginacue worth a good deal of money. This guy that had just come in is looking for a cue to play with and happens to see my cue on the table and picks it up to see if it was worth playing with. I'm watching all this and am not worried for my cue. He proceeds to look at it as you would look at a rifle barrel, holds it with his bridge hand and does a couple of practice strokes. He rolls it on the table and checks out the tip. Never knowing that it was someones private cue he puts it back on the table and grabs one off the wall that he prefered better. I got a good chuckle and just shook my head.
 
maybe ur cue wasnt the correct weight for him. or maybe he knew it was yours and was screwing with u lol thats pretty funny tho. the important thing is he didnt use it and damage it.
 
Happened to me this weekend....guys pull up to the table next to us, pool hall with about 20 tables, all 8-9 foot, none coin tables.....they gotta have over 200 house cues total, all over the walls, about every 10 feet or so and the house is about 1/2 full.....guy grabs my brand new Wayne J/B I just bought, untouched, finish gleaming the the light, sitting next to my chair held by my cue claw thingy, and proceeds to roll the cue on the table just to see if it was straight....I quickly snatched it up, advised this was my personal cue, and he was kewl enough to understand....

It get's even better....I put the cue up, go back to shooting....my buddy, who had been at the bar, comes back and the game continues....well he wins, goes back to the same area to break, and notices his house cue he was using to break, that was in the same claw is gone.....betcha $5 bucks I know who took it :D
 
This happened to me a few weeks back. We are in our regular Tues night tournament at Hollywood billiards in South Fl and I go to break and my Xbreaker is missing. Two tables down I find a guy playing with it. I walk over and tell him its my cue and he looks at me puzzled. I show him that it looks nothing like a regular cue and I also told him it doesnt play well because its got a super hard tip designed to break with.

The kicker to this story is that after I get my xbreaker back I go to break, turn around to tell the waitress I would like another Sprite and then I turn back and the same bozo has now just grabbed my Gus Szamboti and is walking off with it to bang the balls around. It was funny only AFTER i got my cue back.
 
uwate said:
This happened to me a few weeks back. We are in our regular Tues night tournament at Hollywood billiards in South Fl and I go to break and my Xbreaker is missing. Two tables down I find a guy playing with it. I walk over and tell him its my cue and he looks at me puzzled. I show him that it looks nothing like a regular cue and I also told him it doesnt play well because its got a super hard tip designed to break with.

The kicker to this story is that after I get my xbreaker back I go to break, turn around to tell the waitress I would like another Sprite and then I turn back and the same bozo has now just grabbed my Gus Szamboti and is walking off with it to bang the balls around. It was funny only AFTER i got my cue back.
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It's funny how some people can mess that up. Luckily the bar I play at near my place doesn't have a lot of people who come in to play pool so I haven't had a problem with it there, but a buddy of mine had an inccident that landed him in jail.

Me and my buddy just bought two brand new Nick Varner NV36 Atlanta series cues and were breaking them in together at the local bar, he set his cue on the table next to him so he could rack the balls and while he was kneeling down pulling the triangle out from underneith the table someone came up and grabbed his cue off the table.

I pointed it out to my buddy who went to take the cue back from him, the guy got upset and insisted that my buddy let him use the cue, when my friend told him no and started to take the cue from him the guy decided it would be a good decision to break the shaft at the join, ruining the cue. The long and short of it is my buddy took the butt and cracked the guy upside the head with it twice real hard, knocked out a few of his teeth and gave him a huge baseball sized knot on the back of his head.

All I could do was watch, I couldn't get up quick enough to stop him and part of me really didn't want to *shrugs*
 
see, i dont think people should get arrested or whatever for stuff like that. if someone intentionally destroys ur property just to piss u off or because they're throwing a hissy fit, u should legally be allowed to set them in their place. at least that is my belief.
 
In 1985 I had my Szamboti stolen when I went to take a leak. Since then, I proudly piss with my cue and I don't care what anybody thinks about it. I either do that or I have my girl watch it while I am gone. I don't find it hilarious when somebody takes my cue and mistakes it for a house cue. I mean, come on. There is no comparison. I guess that they figure its the best cue in the house and because it is sitting on the table between games that they have a right to it (for whatever reason). Sometimes its because they are too damn lazy to walk over and get one off of the wall.

I also hate it when people come over and grab my chalk without asking. I bring my own chalk that I have paid for with my money. I never use pool hall chalk and I don't lend or give away my chalk to pool hall patrons. I usually get confronted when I go over to their table and grab it back, but its mine and I don't really care. Usually I have to speech them about how it's my personal chalk, etc etc.

Funny story
The most recent experience I had was a few weeks ago. I had run 84 balls in straight pool and racked the balls. I had to go to the register for something - I forget what it was - and when I looked back to my table, some guy I had never seen before was shooting balls and using my cue. I was pissed off for all of the reasons you can think of. When I confronted the guy he didn't even know what straight pool was and then asked me where he could buy a stick just like mine. :rolleyes: Mama said there'd be days like that.
 
Very disturbing stories, not good for my blood pressure. Some people are of course just a**holes, but I guess a lot of people just aren't familiar with the concept of owning a cue, and figure any one is up for grabs.
 
This has happened to me several times and just scares the hell out of me. I think probably, or at least hope, it was always an honest mistake. The bar I play has a patio outside where several of us go on occasion to congregate. I will come back in and notice my cue is gone and my heart beat doubles and I finally spot someone playing with it. So far I have gotten no resistence when I ask for it and tell them it is my personal cue (it is not real sneaky). I am trying to train myself to either take it with me or put it back in it's case before it leaves my sight. I think some bangers just don't think in terms of personal cues and have no clue what some are worth. Can't really see the point in starting a fight, though if they gave me trouble i'm not sure what i would do. Probably a good idea to carry it every where i go.
 
Danktrees said:
see, i dont think people should get arrested or whatever for stuff like that. if someone intentionally destroys ur property just to piss u off or because they're throwing a hissy fit, u should legally be allowed to set them in their place. at least that is my belief.
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I totally agree..that guy should have Made a visit to an ATM to pay for breaking the cue..
 
Some guy wen through my case when I went to take a leak and stole my custom made Jensen joint protectors that matched my cue. Waited almost 4 months for them....still pisses me off thinking about it.....:mad:
 
The thing about these people and the stories is sometimes they happen when people are completely sober !!!
 
i dont even understand why people argue. like honestly, if it's my cue, it's my cue. what is there to argue. not like i gonna give it to u if u keep hassling me. fortunately when i play i always have like 5 ppl with me so at any given time there are 3 ppl watching my stuff for me.
 
Two weeks ago at a tournament it happened to me. The tournament was winding down and I was waiting for the losers brackets to finish up. A young couple walks in and starts to play on a table just opened up for house play. Two things struck me right away. First was this womans top could barely hold in those big puppies. Second her bridge hand was having the same trouble with the stick. I saw her ding it or thought so several times. I tried not to stare at the cutie! :D

My brother (who was running the tournament) tells me I'm up to play Brian so I go to collect my cues and my playing cue is gone! I do the frantic look at the the door, then relize someone might be playing with it. Sure enough I turn to the cutie and it's my cue!

I was pissed and it was hard to disguise it. I simply said, "Excuse me you have my personal playing cue." Four seconds of pregnant silence... I grab it... she won't let it go for a second, then she does. I say thank you and walk away.

I inspect the cue, no damage done. Then the guy walks over. I'm thinkin "Oh no, here we go!" He simply apoligizes and says we thought it was a house cue. I reply, "House cues are always on the wall, does this Scruggs match anything on the wall? Anyway, no harm done; Thanks again! :)


All in all no harm done.
 
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teambizy said:
My last cue was a custom woodworth. I made the mistake of allowing my brother to shoot with it on my table at home. He grounds the cue on an angle and bap, chips the the ivory in the butt. I was so pissed. I have since traded the cue in and got a judd. I wont make the same mistake twice..
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Heck, any cue I play with, if for more than a few shots, may inadvertently get banged a bit. If I think about not doing anything to the cue, such as dinging it by mistake, my game goes out the window. Ever wonder why I love my sneaky so much?
 
Danktrees said:
maybe ur cue wasnt the correct weight for him. or maybe he knew it was yours and was screwing with u lol thats pretty funny tho. the important thing is he didnt use it and damage it.
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Golly, just imagine him doing the Tom Cruise twirl with it... and then the Kung Fu Fighter.

Or the "Drive the Stake through the Heart" routine...
 
never once has that happened to me, i keep a short leash on my cue. only once did i leave it on the counter and just walked away it was in its case, thankfully no one walk off with it.
 
uwate said:
The kicker to this story is that after I get my xbreaker back I go to break, turn around to tell the waitress I would like another Sprite and then I turn back and the same bozo has now just grabbed my Gus Szamboti and is walking off with it to bang the balls around. It was funny only AFTER i got my cue back.
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He probably thought it was one of those flashy Cuetecs, you know, the decalled ones.
 
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