Unusual/weird/unique billiard tools and implements

Does unusual/weird/unique behavior with a common thing count? I saw a girl rubbing her cue tip against one of these on the wall at a local dive a couple months ago…

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The ball spotting device that worked like a bingo ball dispenser. Sit it where you wanted to place a object ball tip it with your cue a ball was placed and the spout/arm moved back for the next ball. Haven't seen 1 since 1982.
 
Dan White said:
I think the aprons the old timers used to keep chalk off their pants is pretty much a relic by now.
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I had a guy that wore an apron always chirping and finally I had enough and told him to take his skirt off and play me some six red ( snooker) and offered him a 16 point start. He still chirped and told me to take my 6 red game back to where I came from lol. I started doing the bwaak bwaak bwaak like a chicken at him in front of all his friends and the chirper stopped. That was one of my funniest moments lol
 
About 35-40 years ago, I played an older gentleman in Buffalo NY that only had one arm. He fashioned some kind of weighted mechanical bridge thing that he slid around the table with his cue. Only unlike a bridge where the cue only rested on it, this thing had a hole in it lined with what looked to be silk. He just dragged it around the table from shot to shot. He was able to pick it up over balls but it looked pretty heavy so he tried to avoid it. That guy played pretty good with that thing! For someone really short playing on a big table, it would probably be a better option than a traditional bridge.
 
fjk said:
About 35-40 years ago, I played an older gentleman in Buffalo NY that only had one arm. He fashioned some kind of weighted mechanical bridge thing that he slid around the table with his cue. Only unlike a bridge where the cue only rested on it, this thing had a hole in it lined with what looked to be silk. He just dragged it around the table from shot to shot. He was able to pick it up over balls but it looked pretty heavy so he tried to avoid it. That guy played pretty good with that thing! For someone really short playing on a big table, it would probably be a better option than a traditional bridge.
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Years ago I was playing in the New Years Day Tournament in Grenada, Mississippi, and was matched against a player who used a similar device. As I recall, it consisted of a 3" square piece of steel plate and a short pedestal topped with a rest fabricated from an industrial sized nut with the threads removed then lined with felt. The device was moved around the table by suspending it on the cue through the hole. The player was very adept at using the item, and of course, beat the hell out of me. Several things impressed me about my opponent and his device, but foremost was his love of our game and his indomitable determination that his condition not interfere with his enjoyment and ability.
 
Biloxi Boy said:
Years ago I was playing in the New Years Day Tournament in Grenada, Mississippi, and was matched against a player who used a similar device. As I recall, it consisted of a 3" square piece of steel plate and a short pedestal topped with a rest fabricated from an industrial sized nut with the threads removed then lined with felt. The device was moved around the table by suspending it on the cue through the hole. The player was very adept at using the item, and of course, beat the hell out of me. Several things impressed me about my opponent and his device, but foremost was his love of our game and his indomitable determination that his condition not interfere with his enjoyment and ability.
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Ditto for a guy in our league who can't move his neck or bend over. Has all kinds of devices he makes, it works for him, and he shoots very well.
 
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