Your stuff safe at the pool hall?
- Thread starter Magnumsk
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People get things stolen from them all the time.
A friend left his break cue up against a wall while he was playing and when his inning was up the cue was gone. This may have been one minute. Never to be seen again. Pred BK3.
If I go to the bathroom I only leave stuff behind if I'm with someone I know.
Or when there are very few people in the hall and I'm far away from them.
Don't risk it.
Your stuff is too valuable for someone to pawn it for 10 or 50 bucks.
A friend left his break cue up against a wall while he was playing and when his inning was up the cue was gone. This may have been one minute. Never to be seen again. Pred BK3.
If I go to the bathroom I only leave stuff behind if I'm with someone I know.
Or when there are very few people in the hall and I'm far away from them.
Don't risk it.
Your stuff is too valuable for someone to pawn it for 10 or 50 bucks.
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I had a bag of "stuff" get stolen a few months back.
It was a cheap nylon bag that I got at a pool tournament in England back in 1990. I had cue tips, some cue tools, calipers, powder, glasses, and some more junk that I lugged around for years. I had it sitting on a little table by where the chairs were by the pool table and some SOB picked it up and ran off with it.
It was a cheap nylon bag that I got at a pool tournament in England back in 1990. I had cue tips, some cue tools, calipers, powder, glasses, and some more junk that I lugged around for years. I had it sitting on a little table by where the chairs were by the pool table and some SOB picked it up and ran off with it.
At a Illinois state tournament around 2001 or 02, we leaned our cases along a wall near the table the team was playing when a guy who kept walking around our area set his case down and walked away for a few minutes and when he came back he tried to walk off with my buddies case! When confronted he claimed it was a mistake (go figure) so I grabbed his case from the wall and it was empty! Nice little scam he had going, I wish I could say we roughed him up but we didn't.
No point in doing that anyway.
If you had done so and he called the cops on you and filed a report for attack, you wouldn't have a case against his case by saying "...but....but....he was trying to steal my stuff so that's why we all broke his nose, teeth, kicked him in the stomach, balls and cracked his ribs".
You'd be out too much money if he had sued. That would really have hit the big time with him.
Always play things smart.
Just get your stuff away from the perp and keep playing pool.
Long way to say you did the right thing.
justinb386
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Yeah, not to mention prison time for assault and battery.
justinb386
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Sorry to hear that. I imagine those are not cheap.
Thief tried a 'case' switch and you guy's busted him with empty case in cold blood and did nothing ? That's a problem where I play.
Back to OP. I leave nothing laying around anywhere that I do not want to part with. Just the way it is. I do not really like asking anyone even my close friends to be responsible for my Cues, case phone etc.. cause they can get 'side tricked' and 'poof' :angry:
KInd rolls,
-Kat,
Back to OP. I leave nothing laying around anywhere that I do not want to part with. Just the way it is. I do not really like asking anyone even my close friends to be responsible for my Cues, case phone etc.. cause they can get 'side tricked' and 'poof' :angry:
KInd rolls,
-Kat,
justinb386
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You can trust me. I will keep a good eye on your billiard belongings. I am kidding, because I understand how you might feel about doing that (even if you knew me really well). I understand that most people are good and honest, but I would not want to take my eyes off of my pool cue (or anything else that was worth money or sentimental value to me) for even 5 seconds. I never used a break cue in the past, and would always toss my case (and other belongings) under the pool table while playing on that table, so it would be easy to detect if anyone was trying to take something from under the table.
They will steal anything not nailed down.
My buddy lost 900.00 to a real good player he had no chance against.
I happened to walk up just as they were finishing and my buddy starts looking for his cue as the player walks away.
I said hey man , his cue is gone , can you look in your case and see if you picked it up by mistake?.
He just looked at me , emptied out the case and said, "oh that looks just like the other cue I have."
' If I hadn't given him a way out , he would have kept walking I am sure.
My buddy lost 900.00 to a real good player he had no chance against.
I happened to walk up just as they were finishing and my buddy starts looking for his cue as the player walks away.
I said hey man , his cue is gone , can you look in your case and see if you picked it up by mistake?.
He just looked at me , emptied out the case and said, "oh that looks just like the other cue I have."
' If I hadn't given him a way out , he would have kept walking I am sure.
I understand.
The guy I play with rides with the same patch on his back that I do. And I put that patch there. He plays with a Joss that I gave him, that goes in a case I gave him next to the break cue I gave him. He was dating my daughter and I moved him into my house, so I guess you could say I gave him my daughter too. He gets my cues when I die.
I let him watch my cues, and I watch his.
Leaving in a few minutes to ride a couple hundred miles with him.
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Not cheap, yeah...I don't know how much yet.
I am actually embarrassed to tell Paul Dayton I was so careless. Yes, I was careless. :sorry:
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Don't forget environment issues. Local pool hall burned up and a handful of guys lost items they had for sale at the counter. The lockers were safe, but they were extremely lucky
Jails are full of people who think they did the 'right' thing.
As said earlier, do the right thing. Don't give the thief an opportunity to collect your cash through a lawsuit.
As said earlier, do the right thing. Don't give the thief an opportunity to collect your cash through a lawsuit.
I've had an odd experience at a hall where the only other person in the hall when I was there was the owner.
I got a measles cue ball for Christmas and carry it with me in a ballsack to the halls that I go to. I went to a regular hall when they opened for the day. I was the only person in the place the whole time I was there that day. They only have one measles ball in the hall & is used on the table reserved for VIPs. After playing for about a half hour, the owner walked by and said, "Oh, you got your own cue ball." I said, "yeah," and kept playing as his walked away. I later went to the bathroom, leaving my stuff there, for a few minutes. I packed up & left. The next time I played (a week later) I noticed that my cue ball had dents and scuffs on it that I hadn't noticed before. I don't play that often & they didn't have those dents when I bought it. I'd hate to think that he switched out my new ball for his old one, but I'm wondering.
I got a measles cue ball for Christmas and carry it with me in a ballsack to the halls that I go to. I went to a regular hall when they opened for the day. I was the only person in the place the whole time I was there that day. They only have one measles ball in the hall & is used on the table reserved for VIPs. After playing for about a half hour, the owner walked by and said, "Oh, you got your own cue ball." I said, "yeah," and kept playing as his walked away. I later went to the bathroom, leaving my stuff there, for a few minutes. I packed up & left. The next time I played (a week later) I noticed that my cue ball had dents and scuffs on it that I hadn't noticed before. I don't play that often & they didn't have those dents when I bought it. I'd hate to think that he switched out my new ball for his old one, but I'm wondering.
Sounds like a switch-a-roo to me!