Today's rant touches stupid sports violence. In particular, the tomnoddies and dumbbodies who make for the wide world of pool beatings, billiards deaths and assorted hustling chicanery that ends in bloodshed.
New York's Times Herald-Record serving the Hudson Valley area reported on March 21, 2010, that one Clifford Garcia, 24, threw a cue ball through a car windshield after allegedly disputing with the car's female owner at a local bar. Any number of rants naturally follow.
For one thing, why was the bar in question serving cue balls to its patrons? For goodness' sake, martinis are supposed to come medium dry with a twist of lemon peel. A black velvet is supposed to accompany dressed crab. And a Hollywood is supposed to be garnished with a pineapple slice. A six ounce cue ball, by comparison, sounds rather pretentious.
Second, why won't criminals lay off the pool equipment? Pool is still working to overcome sleazy images of hustlers in dive bars and corrupted teenagers. And despite positive media placement, commercials and the glamorous new halls of the 90's and noughties, many poolrooms are making more dollars off their bar tabs than off the pool games, and most billiard parlors are smokier than the Blue Ridge Mountains. So it only adds fuel to the fire to have almost daily incidents around pool ball and pool stick violence.
Stick to the good old days and punch people in the mouth instead!
And if you want to smash yourself and friends, try The Double Smash Stroke instead of a cue ball in the kisser.
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