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kolya
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Posted: 2009-04-09 22:40
When I was a kid i used to play snooker in a working mens club during the day time, the snooker room had six tables and was quite a long room, at the end was a corridor leading to the bar area. Playing on the farthest table from the door (table 6) i once crashed a red down the table it hit the jaws of the pocket and flew off the table hitting the bed of a table further down the room and then hit the open door of the snooker room and shot down the corridor which was not carpeted towards the bar, the flap of the bar was open and immediately behind this was stairs leading to the cellar the ball travelled the length of the corridor through the bar hatch and down the cellar steps finally coming to land 60 -70 yards from where I originally took the shot. Is this the longest snooker shot in history?
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InsideEnglish
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Posted: 2009-04-09 22:50
probably,did you get on a colour?
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expertfluke
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Posted: 2009-04-09 22:54
I'm not so sure that's a record, as I had a simlilar experience, I was playing snooker one summer at Riley's Clapham and it was upstairs and they had the fire doors open. I rattled the black in the jaws and it flew off the table, went out of the exit and landed in back of a moving delivery truck. Before I could reach the truck it set off and went non-stop to Skegness until finally stopping. Which is over 100 miles away. Needless to say, the match was delayed by some 8 hours whilst I followed the truck and claimed the black back. It wasn't just the ball that was out of pocket, I was too.... £67 the lights cost me!! [ This message was edited by: expertfluke on 2009-04-09 22:59 ]
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thecyclone
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Posted: 2009-04-10 10:01
i thinkthere could be a few storys like this!
i was playing pool in "sports" a pool hall in bournemouth and i broke at english pool, very hard the ball went up and towards the glass windows! i cringed as i watched it just go through a gap that was open, it flew outside.
i went downstairs to regain the ball and had to ask the doorman " can i have my ball back please?" he said "no" paused and said "its on that bus".....
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BigDave
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Posted: 2009-04-10 10:33
There's no prize for the most unbelievable story!  But keep 'em coming! [ This message was edited by: BigDave on 2009-04-10 10:33 ]
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InsideEnglish
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Posted: 2009-04-10 11:34
you'll be sorry
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InsideEnglish
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Posted: 2009-04-10 12:05
Reminds me of the time i was playing a frame of snooker in the Monkey Hangers Sports and Social. I had just potted the first red and once again got prime position on the yellow. As the yellow scorched into the bag it went through the net of the pocket, flew round the room, out of the window and onto the back of a lorry bound for Brussels. My mate wanted to follow the lorry to Brussels, but i just went and got the yellow of the other table. And as it had been legaly potted, I continued with my break, 15 reds, 15 yellows and all the colours, 72, a proper mans break, none of them puffy 147s like Ronnie.
Just my 2 cents worth, keep the change.
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dynamitedaz
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Posted: 2009-04-10 13:49
On 2009-04-09 22:54 , expertfluke Wrote:!!! QUOTE !!! I'm not so sure that's a record, as I had a simlilar experience, I was playing snooker one summer at Riley's Clapham and it was upstairs and they had the fire doors open. I rattled the black in the jaws and it flew off the table, went out of the exit and landed in back of a moving delivery truck.
Before I could reach the truck it set off and went non-stop to Skegness until finally stopping. Which is over 100 miles away.
Needless to say, the match was delayed by some 8 hours whilst I followed the truck and claimed the black back. It wasn't just the ball that was out of pocket, I was too.... £67 the lights cost me!! what about fuel? ----------------- world ranked no 1 and current world 9ball champion Available for exhibitions & coaching www.darrenappleton.com
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Pitster
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Posted: 2009-04-10 14:05
A few of years ago I was playing a nine ball race to seven with a mate on
the Brunswick table near the entrance in Victoria. It was hill hill and I had
a tough long shot on the nine ball. For some strange reason I decided
to power the nine into the corner pocket. Bad choice. It rattled the jaws
and then flew up into the air at the exact moment Steve Knight was rushing
out of the door after saying his good byes to the bar staff. He was running
late on his way to Heathrow to catch a flight to Sydney. Anyway the nine ball
landed in Steve's partially opened hand luggage. Before I could shout for the
nine ball he was out of the door, into a taxi and on his way to Sydney!!!
As the crow flies that's roughly 10,600 miles.
That's not end of it. Two weeks later Steve returns looking exhausted.
He walks into Victoria on his way back from Heathrow and drops his hand
luggage onto the Brunswick to greet a few friends. Bizarrely the nine ball
rolls out of his bag and drops into the corner pocket.
10,600 + 10,600 = 21,200 miles (+ the taxi distance from Victoria to Heathrow x2)
I'm still owed the £50 for the set that lasted two weeks : (
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9BallBoy
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Posted: 2009-04-10 15:16
Well... funny this topic should come up! last year i was playing pool in an American bar with a friend, as i broke the white ball flew off the table into what appeared to be an astronauts bag. The next minute there was a taxi outside, he dashed to the taxi and i did not have any sort of chance of getting the ball back, his friends who were still at the bar told me that he was on his way to NASA as he was going in a rocket to the moon and also that the bag that the ball landed in happened to be his pack lunch for his trip so he was bound to have taken it on the rocket with him! The moon is approximately between 356500 km and 406500 km depending on the gravitational pull. Do i win now?  [ This message was edited by: 9BallBoy on 2009-04-10 15:19 ]
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jc
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Posted: 2009-04-10 16:27
Needless to say, the match was delayed by some 8 hours whilst I followed the truck and claimed the black back. It wasn't just the ball that was out of pocket, I was too.... £67 the lights cost me!!
That's quicker than your usual race to 7 at st albans!
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Tookster
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Posted: 2009-04-10 16:42
You're taking this too far =)
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Tookster
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Posted: 2009-04-10 16:46
That said, I do remember a legendary shot...
Willie 'the wizard' Dines smashed a break shot, which hit the 1 ball and took off into orbit, hitting the roof of the club, then on the way back down, bounced on the next table, then the floor beside the next again table... and smashed Darren 'no hurry' Murray in the nuts. Class!
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expertfluke
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Posted: 2009-04-10 18:02
On 2009-04-10 13:49 , dynamitedaz Wrote:!!! QUOTE !!! On 2009-04-09 22:54 , expertfluke Wrote:!!! QUOTE !!! I'm not so sure that's a record, as I had a simlilar experience, I was playing snooker one summer at Riley's Clapham and it was upstairs and they had the fire doors open. I rattled the black in the jaws and it flew off the table, went out of the exit and landed in back of a moving delivery truck.
Before I could reach the truck it set off and went non-stop to Skegness until finally stopping. Which is over 100 miles away.
Needless to say, the match was delayed by some 8 hours whilst I followed the truck and claimed the black back. It wasn't just the ball that was out of pocket, I was too.... £67 the lights cost me!!
what about fuel?
Glad you mentioned Fuel Daz, that was a company car, so you could claim the petrol back on expenses. Anyway, I tried to claim back some of the light money off Rileys. As they were at fault because they had the fire exit doors opened. (Otherwise it would never of happened.) It took me a good few months of emails and phone calls to convince them. Eventually they agreed to a refund me in ' free table time' vouchers. So the other week, I finally went to the club to collect my vouchers and it had closed down...You couldn't make it up!! [ This message was edited by: expertfluke on 2009-04-10 18:06 ]
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InsideEnglish
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Posted: 2009-04-10 18:08
some of these stories are hard to believe
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kolya
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Posted: 2009-04-11 10:24
Funnily enough a few weeks after my previous long range shot I was playing in a league match when I similarly hit a red ball off the table which landed in the club secretary's coat pocket just as he was preparing to leave for home, I was too embarassed to ask for the ball back so let him leave, but sadly he suffered a heart attack that very night and died. He was buried in the very same clothes but again I found it too difficult to approach the grieving widow to ask for the red ball back so it remains buried 6 feet under in Our Holy Lady of the Trinity's graveyard, Moreton on the Marsh. Legend has it that every year on the anniversary of that same league match the club secretary rises from the grave and revisits the club trying to return the red ball. How spooky is that?
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InsideEnglish
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Posted: 2009-04-11 11:54
Very spooky, but more important, did you obtain a replacement red, or do you play with 14.
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Steve-Bomber-Brown
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Posted: 2009-04-11 21:28
Played a shot once against Mr D'Vali when i was in leeds club, it was a break shot, smashed the cue ball as hard as i could cue ball landed on the rubber part of the rail spinning and rocking where it landed !! and when it finished it just sat there on the rail. Si's eyes popped out his head.
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paddy147
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Posted: 2009-04-12 01:47
tookster i remember that lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dines the leg end lol
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kolya
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Posted: 2009-04-12 05:31
I played a shot once, hit the side of the reds and the cue ball came all the way back up the table!
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