Tales of horror: When some MORON grabs your cue.

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arsenius

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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?
 
If the cue was damaged..... the guy would be paying for it before he left. Cash or teeth...... his choice. :D
Chuck
 
Your story makes me mad just thinking about it. Kudos to your friend who stayed calm.

About a year ago, I had this new cue that I had bought on ebay to use for breaking. It was this beautiful dark-stained tiger maple, no inlays, but had some nice looking ringwork. It had a black pleather (fake leather) grip. The cue only costed me $200, so it wasn't a high-end cue like my playing cue. I was practicing by myself, and rested it against the chair after I broke. A few minutes later, I look at the chair and it's gone.

The next table over, two guys about 21 or 22 years old, dressed up like wanna-be rap stars, were using it. I walked over and politely told the guy that was holding it that it was mine. He acted like he didn't want to give it to me, and he started acting all cocky. I quickly snatched it from his hands, and he made some snide remark about me already having a cue. I told him that I OWNED the cues, they werent house rentals. Then him and his friend started giving me this stare like they wanted to kick my ass.

I told them "Look, I paid for these cues, if you want a cue, either buy one from a billiards store or use a house cue" and I pointed towards the rack of cues on the wall. I guess it still didn't sink in, and one of the guys, who was about three times my size, stood up and asked me if I had an attitude problem (lol). I was being polite, and I knew he just wanted to start something. Pretty soon the entire poolroom noticed the big guy in my face, and his friend was next to him like they were going to jump me.

Five seconds later, about five regulars and the two workers ran up to my aid, and the guys saw they were outnumbered. One of the regulars is a real big guy, with biker tattoes, etc. He was ready to knock both those guys out. They saw that everyone came to my aid, and they quickly calmed down, paid their tab, and quietly left. They were both drunk, so that behaviour is pretty typical. They wanted to fight because they thought I was alone. It was a pretty good feeling, knowing that my friends were there to my aid if those two guys were gonna jump me. Ah, memories. :)
 
I'd probably end up on America's Most Wanted for killing the person :p

I cant remember when someone has grabbed one of my old playing cues, cuz they didnt look like a house cue.

My Gilbert JB kinda looks like a house cue but, I always have it near my case on a table that is withing 2 steps. Plus, the guys where I play tend to look out for everyones stuff, so nobody is just picking something up.

I did have someone pick up my old Action SP cue once lol, it was laying on the table next to me while i was practicing. But the guy actually asked me if I was using said cue as he was holding it lol, I politely told him that was my break cue. And told him the house cues are on the wall right behind him. I just blew it off cuz, it was just a guy with some friends comming in to bang some balls around with thier ladies.
 
never happend to me, i keep a short leash on my cue. when I go to the bathroom it goes with me. never once when I played 5-6 days a week for 10 years did someone pick up my cue not even the break cue, ir goes ass-end into my case after I break or under the table, he needs to watch his stuff. it also sounds like a kids joint and i dont play in thise spots, i did years ago when i needed easy $$$.
 
never leave your cue out of your sight. it's always been a habit of people in pool halls to just simply pick up somebody else's cue. Often times, there are people who borrow my cue with or without my permission. It's fine with me coz some of these guys whom I don't know personally, knew how to handle or use my playing cue properly. All I can say that these guys knew what they are using in their hands.
the only people that you should wary about are the banger types or beginners. most of these guys have no respect for pool equiptments, most especially cues. the only run-in that I had been to with this type of person was when I left my playing cue near my seat while I was breaking with a normal house cue. After I was done breaking, I was already prepared to switch to my playing cue but I didn't find it near my seat. so I looked around for it and saw someone was using it for banging. that's right, BANGING ! I took my cue and confronted the person. I ask him why he took my cue and he said that because my cue looks nice. So I said to him, my cue looks nice but the way you are using it makes it doesn't look nice and it seem you wanted to break it. Finally, I said to the guy, don't take somebody else's personal cue if you don't know how to use them properly.
To avoid such thing from happening again, I put my cue near the pool table so that I could see it everytime.
 
He's better than me then....

I almost got into a fight during a APA Divisional when a jerk from another team starts hitting balls on my teams practice table while my Jacoby was clearly laying on the table in plain view!!!!! :mad: One of my teamates grabbed him before I could get to him!:(
 
Dave and Busters

Back in 2005 when I first got to Lackland I was playing at Dave and Busters. My ritual at the time was: 1. Assemble cues 2. set them next to my case 3. go wash hands 4. come back and play some pool.

At D+B it takes a good 30 seconds of walking just to get to the bathroom from any one of the pool tables, so I was gone for about 3 minutes.

When I got back my Viking with my MINT condition glass-smooth Z-shaft was in the hands of some big vato looking chump on the table on the OTHER side of the divider. As soon as I saw it was my cue I yelled "HEY!!!" and walked fast and purposefully right up to him. I snatched the cue out of his hands while saying "Don't touch my cue". He had two friends with him but I would've taken them even if there were 10 I had so much adrenaline. That's when I realized I am, in fact, a poolaholic. Luckily he said "My bad" and went to get a house cue. The shaft was all chalked up but wasn't dented thank goodness. I would've been banned from D+B if they tried to get rough with me... nobody touches my babies without my permission. NOBODY.
 
cuetechasaurus said:
Your story makes me mad just thinking about it. Kudos to your friend who stayed calm.

About a year ago, I had this new cue that I had bought on ebay to use for breaking. It was this beautiful dark-stained tiger maple, no inlays, but had some nice looking ringwork. It had a black pleather (fake leather) grip. The cue only costed me $200, so it wasn't a high-end cue like my playing cue. I was practicing by myself, and rested it against the chair after I broke. A few minutes later, I look at the chair and it's gone.

The next table over, two guys about 21 or 22 years old, dressed up like wanna-be rap stars, were using it. I walked over and politely told the guy that was holding it that it was mine. He acted like he didn't want to give it to me, and he started acting all cocky. I quickly snatched it from his hands, and he made some snide remark about me already having a cue. I told him that I OWNED the cues, they werent house rentals. Then him and his friend started giving me this stare like they wanted to kick my ass.

I told them "Look, I paid for these cues, if you want a cue, either buy one from a billiards store or use a house cue" and I pointed towards the rack of cues on the wall. I guess it still didn't sink in, and one of the guys, who was about three times my size, stood up and asked me if I had an attitude problem (lol). I was being polite, and I knew he just wanted to start something. Pretty soon the entire poolroom noticed the big guy in my face, and his friend was next to him like they were going to jump me.

Five seconds later, about five regulars and the two workers ran up to my aid, and the guys saw they were outnumbered. One of the regulars is a real big guy, with biker tattoes, etc. He was ready to knock both those guys out. They saw that everyone came to my aid, and they quickly calmed down, paid their tab, and quietly left. They were both drunk, so that behaviour is pretty typical. They wanted to fight because they thought I was alone. It was a pretty good feeling, knowing that my friends were there to my aid if those two guys were gonna jump me. Ah, memories. :)
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Your situation reminds me of my friend's experience. He had almost the same experience that you had. but I'm going to share it anyway. :D
My friend was practicing pool alone while he was waiting for the rest of us to arrive. when some pack of queers (I called them such becoz it suits them) along with their girlfriends and were in another table beside where my friend was practicing his game. then suddenly one of this fags came to my friend and just suddenly took one of the personal cues which my friend wasn't using. my friend said that it's his cue but the guy said "I'm just going to borrow it and my friend said "NO". the guy slammed the cue and went back to their table and was kinda pissed, according to my friend. then all of a sudden, the whole pack (including their girlfriends) started cussing, catcalling, sharking, insulting and any other possible way that would make any person mad while he was playing. In every shot, you would hear some words like "MISS", "IDIOT", and other foul words.
actually it was the worst moment for him since he was alone and these faggots were ganging up on him. Luckily for him , he didn't have to wait any longer for his demise as we arrived about 7 minutes later. I must tell you, as soon as those fags saw us coming to him, they went totally mute. I was then bigger compared now, and one of our companion then looks like a wrestler which made us look more like bouncers or bodyguards of his. :D
So my friend came up to us and whispered that those fags were making fun of him all because he didn't allowed them to use his cue. so we gave these fags a mean stare and started to walk to their table and as soon as they saw us approaching, they hurriedly pickup their arses and left without paying their tab. I guess those fags got what they wanted, a dose of their own medicine. :D

those jerks won't pickup somebody their own size, I failed to mention that my friend was kinda skinny back then and look like someone you can just simply push around. luckily he got some of us! he's a nice person by the way. ;)
 
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a little funnier

What happened to me recently was more funny. I don't tote a break cue so I grab a cue off the wall to break with. If it has a tip on it and I don't get splinters in my hand when I slide my fingers down the shaft, good enough. I place it in my Porper clamp on cue holder by my table with my cue. I did this recently at a pool hall that has largely been taken over by the traveling construction crews in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.

Every few minutes I would be interrupted by someone asking if I was using that cue. Over a dozen more on the wall but that one had to be special because I had it. Finally I let someone take it and grabbed another off the wall. Need I tell anyone what happened next? Of course this was now the new magic cue.

It's a nice hall owned by a pro player and the most convenient one to me by about an hour travel time round trip but it is losing it's appeal in a hurry.

Hu
 
RiverCity said:
If the cue was damaged..... the guy would be paying for it before he left. Cash or teeth...... his choice. :D
Chuck
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Agreed.... maybe teeth first... then the cash :D


Happened to me twice. One time, I went to grab a bottle of water and when I came back my cue was gone. Looking around I spotted it in the hands of a guy that just walked in with a small group. So, I promptly grabbed a house cue, walked over to the guy and said, you have two choices... give me back my cue and play with this, or give me back my cue and wear this (as I turned the cue over). I am not a big guy but it felt pretty good when they guy handed me my cue back and apologized. Who knows what would have happened if I would have had to hit him over the head with it.

Second time happened this year and with my Varney J/B. First glance it does look like a house cue so I understand the mistake. Also it was a guy in my league that I am really good friends with so I really didn't care.
 
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Definitely teeth or cash.

I had a guy walk right up to my cue case (I have my cues assembled and standing up in the case while I'm playing) and he reached for my break cue. When I asked what he was doing, he told me that he thought these were house cues for anybody. Now, the guy was young and clearly not all there mentally, but come on! Even my Fury JBBS (not a real expensive stick) doesn't look like a cheap piece of bar wood (the place we were at has only beat up banana sticks).
 
I've never had a complete stranger pick up my cue but sometimes when my friends come over they'll unknowinly grab my cue off the wall instead of one of my house cues and start to use it, usually I don't mind but it can be stressful if they are sporadic and don't seem to care much about taking care of it.
 
I was once practicing in this poolroom that had a few ping pong tables. I was sitting by my table, taking a small break when a ping pong ball rolled under my table. Well, the guy walks over and grabs my cue to sweep the ball out. I immediately barked, "HEY, THAT'S A $500 CUE. THE $3 BROOM IS THE **** OVER THERE!"
 
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What are you guys mad about?....maybe these people needed the cues? Doesn't need trump ability in today's world?

Some people are so selfish!

Jeff Livingston
 
Stupidity knows no bounds

I really wish I could say that nothing has ever happened to my cues, but it has. The room I play at has an infestation of youthful morons that can't quite figure out how to wear their ball caps or get their clothes to fit. The good thing about these kids is that their girlfriends also forget to get dressed apparently half way through the act. But enough of that, on to the cues!

1) I had this idiot, who just a few hours earlier, had to be told, by me, to be careful with the equiment as he and his buddy were playing "table hockey" on the table next to me and attempting masse shots without even a clue. The same moron walked straight, and I mean straight, from his table towards the bar to pay, and decides that our beverage table with all our cues mounted on it was merely an illusion. Wham. My buddy had his cue in his hand and gave it a warm hug as he saw what could have happened. I can't tell you what happened after that as that I still haven't been identified in the matter and would like to keep it that way...

2) My buddy and I play on a table that is right beside the bathroom. At the end of the session I had my cues on the table in two pieces and went to the washroom to grab some paper towel to clean them down. My buddy was there putting his away so I wasn't worried. I came back and my buddy was putting his jacket on and some monkey was putting my cues back together and was going to take them to his table!!! Now I understand that not everyone can identify a personal cue and a house cue at times, but come on!

I have plenty of stories of stupidity. Perhaps I will add more later.
 
Black-Balled said:
Hail Mary Shot said:
..I'm going to share it anyway. :D
...some pack of queers (I called them such becoz it suits them) along with their girlfriends ...
Wow...You probably should hav kept that to yourself!:eek:
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Not that kind of Queer becoz they are not really queer guys. I meant Queer becoz they ran their silly arses off when confronted Mano A Mano after they had made fun of our lonesome friend when we weren't there yet! :D
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chefjeff said:
What are you guys mad about?....maybe these people needed the cues? Doesn't need trump ability in today's world?

Some people are so selfish!

Jeff Livingston
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I believe because they haven't said the word "PLEASE" with cherry on top ! :D
 
Happened to me once, years ago, a guy picked up my Joss Boss break cue started playing with it as I was coming back from the front counter. He gave it back right away, so no problem, he really liked heavy cues.
Happend to another guy where I played. After the Saturday rapid fire tournament, there were usually two or three four or five handed ring games going on, lasting several hours. If there was and empty table near a ring game, most of the players put their cues on it. One Saturday, a woman and her grown son came in and started to play on a table two or three tables from a ring game. One of them, I forget which, came to the table with thing ring gamers' cues on it and picked one up and took it back to their table. A few seconds later, the owner of the cue looked for it, saw it in their hands and went and retrieved it. No fuss. He said he was embarrassed because they rolled it to see if it was straight. It was a Balabushka.
 
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