The funniest,craziest,greatest thing you ever witnessed in pool

Funniest was probably on Halloween when I was watching some drunk girls playing 8-ball at the student pub where I usually play. Everyone's dressed up and having a good time. One of the girls from Russia had been drinking all night, and eventually it's her turn. She has a hard time hitting much of anything, and about ten minutes into the game she's clearly getting upset. I think the opponent had her snookered, so she leans down and whacks the cue ball with quite a bit of force, but she slips and ends up punching herself hard in the mouth. She probably busted up her lip, because blood started dripping (fortunately not on the cloth). At this point she's cursing up a storm while everyone else is pretty much on the floor laughing their butts off. A good night for sure.
 
Back in 99' or 00' I was playing in a Joss event and Alex and Kid Delicious were both there. For 3 straight days everytime Alex saw Kid D he would run over and and pretend to lick him and yell " it's delicious." It didnt matter if Danny was in mid stroke or just watching a match. It was pretty funny to see Kid's face every time as the weekend progressed.
 
my pool youth was very colorful

At the 16TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL VNEA CHAMPIONSHIPS (1996), I was watching a money match at 2am-3am with my buddy Bill Ganne (Rest in Peace). It was against Claude Spence (CAN), who won the 8-Ball Regular Singles that year, vs. another guy. I think he was from the US. Claude had a few too many drinks and somehow taunted or pissed off a very large guy who was watching his buddy play against him. Some heated words past. Then it turned ugly. Claude started hurling balls from a table next to their money table right at this very large man. The very large man didn’t flinch and continued to walk towards Claude. Balls then started going back and forth. Bill and I ducked for cover; it was insane! Within a few seconds it was resolved. I’m not sure how it got resolved, but we were asked to leave the area. If anyone can recollect what truly happened, this by far was the craziest thing I’ve witnessed in pool next to a angry mob running downstairs into the pool hall I was supervising with cues in hand beating up anyone within hitting distance. But that is another story… Oh yes… my pool youth was very colorful.
 
Many years ago at the poolhall where I played, two guys got into a
argument. One of them slapped the other square in the face. The guy
that was slapped started to walk towards the exit to get his gun from
his car. The poolhall's owner ran after him and caught him in the parking
lot. The guy did have a gun in his hand and ready to go back in. The
owner cooled him off and thank God nothing happened.

It was very close to get ugly. I tell you, it gave me chills just to think
what could happen if the owner didn't do what he did.:eek:
 
Last wednesday, during league, I watched a guy break a Falcon over his knee and throw it under a bench. That wasn't funny but what is funny is that I have a Falcon cue now.
 
a fight

I was in a place with more pool tables than anything else, but actually a biker bar. The bar made an "L" shape and there was a narrow alley into a dead end corner where the pay phone was long before cell phone days.

Two guys I knew and who were normally friends with each other had been snarling at each other for thirty minutes or so sitting on the stools in the little blind alley talking fist fight. I needed to use the pay phone and I finally had enough, looked like they were going to verbally fight all night without doing anything else. Finally I squeezed past them to the phone. As I walked by Roy decided he was ready to fight and reached in his belt and pulled his pistol out to lay it on the bar neglecting to tell Donny what he was doing first.

When the gun flashed Donny caught Roy upside the head with the beer mug he was holding and laid his scalp open pretty good. They hit the floor together and were rolling around without either one doing much damage. Almost every man in the place reached in his belt and pulled out a gun, half the women did to. Seeing this I reached in my belt and snatched out a handful of belly hair. No gun! I hate it when that happens.

These guys fighting were in their early twenties and the lady that owned the bar in her early sixties had the hots for Roy. She came out from behind the bar on the run, grabbed a house cue, and went to whaling away at the two on the floor trying to hit Donny. She was hitting them both about equally as they were both rolling to try to get underneath the other one for protection from the stick. She was touching her heels with the cue every time she reared back with it and it was whistling in a full circle and hitting with a solid thwack when it hit meat.

Dummy Hu was backed in the corner and the end of the cue was missing my sucked in gut about a half inch every time it passed by. There just wasn't any way I could lean forward enough to get my legs under me to get out of the corner without getting hit once in the head or blocking arm with the cue and it looked likely to snap an arm if I used one to try to protect my head. The lady was swinging with every ounce of strength she had. Finally after it seemed she had whacked away long enough to split half a cord of wood had she been using an ax somebody caught her.

I was spending time with the manager of the place and she gave me the key and we managed to get half the people locked outside and the other half locked inside since they had all selected a side and were starting to brawl for no good reason at all I knew of except whut tha hell. With about three-fourths of the people in the place dragging out guns a couple had went off presumably accidentally but we couldn't find any damage to anything but the bar.

After about fifteen minutes Kay asked me to open the door and peek out to see what was going on outside since the door glass was painted black. I did and opened the door just as a lady cop was stepping up to it. Damyum! What happened next is another pretty long story so I think I'll stop here.

Hu
 
Was watching a break contest in Raliegh N.C. Mike Coltrain was up to lay all 130 lbs. into that rack of 9-ball. Spectators gathered as they felt like they were goin g to watch history in the making of this young champion. Mike winds it up and then proceeds to fly the CB off the table right into this poor guys groin area....
LOL!!! I'll never forget that one...heee heeee
 
Mid 70's, bar table...

Mid 70's, bar table, guy racks the balls and stands directly behind the rack, front of his legs resting against the table. I get under the cue ball with a ton of power, it hits the head ball, flies straight up and smacks him dead square in the forehead with a crack like a rifle shot. The cue ball hangs there a split second, drops straight down, he spins in a circle three times, arms flailing, trying his best not to fall down. The bar was in dead silence from the second of impact. He stands there bent over at the waist for about fifteen seconds, walks back to the table, reracks the balls and stands in the exact same spot again, waiting for me to break again.
 
only one thing to say

pocketpared said:
Mid 70's, bar table, guy racks the balls and stands directly behind the rack, front of his legs resting against the table. I get under the cue ball with a ton of power, it hits the head ball, flies straight up and smacks him dead square in the forehead with a crack like a rifle shot. The cue ball hangs there a split second, drops straight down, he spins in a circle three times, arms flailing, trying his best not to fall down. The bar was in dead silence from the second of impact. He stands there bent over at the waist for about fifteen seconds, walks back to the table, reracks the balls and stands in the exact same spot again, waiting for me to break again.
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Proof positive that you knocked him silly the first time! :grin: :grin: :grin:

Hu
 
A few things...

In Greenville SC I think and Mark Showalter(sp?) jumps up and runs into a wall full speed. Definetely had me wondering..

In Dothan Al I was playing my friend Stoney Stone some one pocket in front of the counter. Two guys are sitting there watching.
I walk up and grab a drink and the guys ask if we are gambling. I said yes and he then asks if we are friends. I said yes.
A few minutes later he motions me back over and asks to play some partners 8ball against us for $50 a game. Stoney and I agree.
After 2 games they quit saying that ..
We weren't playing nearly as well while they were watching. LOL they didnt notice that we were playing one pocket!:eek:

In Orlando and it was about 130. We were trying to get some action with Luiz Vierra (sp?) but it was late and he wasnt playing much. With about
4 of us in the whole room the backdoor flys open and someone throws a
dead pigeon in the room. It flew right between me and the guy working.
I was like WTF and still am!


In Athens ga I was in a "black" pool room (sorry for the description). I was the only white guy there and was playing a guy named SJ.
All of a sudden two guys start argueing loudly and one leaves. SJ explained that both had "ladies" and one guy had approached another guys "property".
Well about that time the guy comes back in with a gun and everyone starts ducking. The owner finally got the gun out of his hand and we resume play.
SJ stops and says that I had nothing to worry about that he usually hits what he is aiming for.
 
These were all pretty crazy, but none are "great" by any measure. Nor are they necessarily pool-related other than the venues in which they occurred. THIS is the kind of activity that keeps pool in the backrooms with the hustlers.

1. ATF raids a bar and drags out one of the regulars...apparently he was building explosives in his basement for some guy.

2. DEA raids a bar and drags out a very famous pool personality. I'll keep it anonymous.

3. FBI+Denver PD raid an underground gambling facility....not because of the gambling, but because of the cocaine operation in the backroom. Regardless, all cash seized as evidence.

4. Kid #1 shoots kid #2 in the face outside of poolroom. I didn't actually witness it. I got there about 10 minutes later.

5. Argentinian bar with an ATM machine of an owner gets busted by Colorado Springs PD for the methamphetamine activity in the basement. Again, I wasn't present. I left about an hour before...several hundred richer :grin-square:.

6. Regular drunkard gets jumped in parking lot by group of 20-something party types. When fight ends, drunkard runs to car to retrieve .38 pistol. Being an idiot, I followed him to the car to make sure he was okay. Group of 20-something party types quickly jump in truck and speed away. Without a word, drunkard runs down the street and fires 7 or 8 shots at truck.
 
2. DEA raids a bar and drags out a very famous pool personality. I'll keep it anonymous.



I just missed that one the night that happened. To bad it has to be a secret.
 
car parked in poolhall

I was at shooters in greensboro nc one saturday, we were getting ready to start the monthly bar table tourney and the next thing we knew this little chinese women drove her car straight into the side of the building. I was only about 20 feet from where she hit the building.
 
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