liljon said:
I really had nothing but positive thoughts after "Eddie" and I talked on Wensday in regards to the "Disappearing 34K" and I promised to make an "apology" to Tony and his Crew if we got this squared away. Know, the two days has passed and Saturday will be three and I still havent heard a word from anyone. I have left a few messages with Tony and havent been able to speak to him for his voice mail says he has "stepped away from his desk" and I guess he hasnt returned..... I want nothing more than to get this deal settled and move on to another subject but I cant let this go until they make it right. I said that I would "To Be Contiunued" when I got all this situated and its Friday night and still no results.............LJ
I had been hoping for the best. The lack of response by the Boston arbitrator is unsettling. IMO, though, each day that goes by is not a good sign. Monies have a way of dwindling when they're in the wrong pockets. It could be that the scoundrels who stole Little John's dough have already lost it, spent it, or gambled it away and are unable to make this wrong right.
Last year, a few pool players decided to play poker after a regional tournament concluded one weekend. Several of the them had brandished their bank roll for all to see in the pool room. Six of them traveled to another location and got the game going. Less than an hour into the game, two robbers with machine guns walked in. One of them pointed his gun at the head of the pool player who had brandished his bank roll in full view earlier that night. It was a set-up, and the take was about 35 dimes in total.
North Carolinian Tony Watson and his stakehorse got robbed at gunpoint in Tennessee. Young Tony had brandished two fat boodles in a pool room earlier in the night, hoping to get a game, taunting any prospective action men. Unfortunately for Tony, his taunting attracted the wrong people.
A couple of DCC attendees were robbed in Louisville a few years ago. It was thought at the time that there were a couple of undesirables stalking their prey at the action friendly event.
Veterans Shannon Daulton and Ronnie Wiseman have experienced having their bank rolls forcefully taken from them in the past.
Funny things occur in action settings, and the higher the purse, the greater likelihood for the thieves and low lifes to come out of the woodwork to seize the moment and pounce when no one is looking. Safeguard measures need to be taken into account. Not everybody is a gentleman gambler, and what happened in Boston is quite different than shooting an air barrel at an opponent or stiffing them the last game.
Tony Ruberto, whether he did or did not take Little John's 17 dimes, will forever have a black cloud over his head until this is made right! In this instance, he is guilty by association, especially after the "amnesia" comments in his one and only post on this forum. The stink ain't going to go away and will follow him everywhere he goes.
JAM