Unusual Pool and Snooker injuries

Fire crew in baize rescue

Pool player Delroy Harvey, 17, had to be freed by firefighters after getting his arm stuck while trying to find his mobile phone, which had fallen down a table pocket in Wolverhampton.

Pot Stuck

Firemen freed a pool player, 46, who got his arm stuck in a table when he reached in to grab a ball in Lewes, East Sussex.

Boy Recovers After Snooker Cue Impaling

A British schoolboy impaled himself on a snooker cue which pierced his scrotum and emerged through his stomach. Surgeons at a the Diana, Princess of Wales hospital in Grimsby, northern England, worked for an hour to remove the cue. A spokesman said Monday the boy, Porl French, 11, was recovering at home.

"Other children say he was stood on a chair pretending the cue was a pogo stick. He was apparently holding it between his legs when he slipped off," the manager of the snooker club, Tony Graham, told a Grimsby newspaper.

Hans de Jager gets Jimmyed

One of the shots in Artistic Billiards called the "Jimmy" -- I don't know why it's called that -- has you shoot a stick- vertical masse shot near the corner in which the cue ball hits the first ball and then at least four cushions in that corner before coming out to hit the second ball. The shot requires a special technique to get the stick out of the way bacause the first object ball is less than half an inch from the cue ball. You have to pull the stick away from the ball just as you hit it.

Anyway, Hans de Jager relates the story of a competitor at a championship (World? European?) who moved sideways at the wrong time after pulling the tip out of his free-hand bridge on the up-stroke. Took most of a finger off. Blood all over. The other players had to move to a different corner for that shot. Something to think about the next time you feel sorry for yourself for whacking your knuckles on the table. Hans gives classes in Artistic Billiards, and as far as I know has never lost a student.

Woman survives being skewered by snooker cue

The cue had been in the boot and the 21-year-old was a back seat passenger. The cue entered the woman near her kidneys and re-emerged through her thigh.

It took fire and rescue workers two hours to free her. She was taken to hospital with a section of the cue still inside her, but released after three days.

Doctors at the Kings Mill Hospital, near the accident scene in Mansfield, said the cue had missed all her vital organs.

The woman, who comes from the Beeston area of Nottingham, has not been named. Two other people in the Kia Mentor car suffered minor injuries following the crash in the early hours of Saturday.

Sergeant John Blaylock, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "We are very grateful the injuries suffered by this woman were not more serious. Something like this could easily have proved fatal."

He said she had been left with puncture wounds.

And he added: "It appears the car she was travelling in collided head on with a second vehicle. The circumstances of the accident will be investigated to see if any criminal action will be taken."

The driver of the car, Ian Butterworth, of Britannia Avenue, Nottingham, said his friend had complained of a pain in her back following the accident.

He said: "I put my hand behind her and there was something piercing her."

The Mirror reckoned the cue went into her back, emerging inches from her navel.

Have a break... use a rest!

"A friend of mine, Richard Grainger of Gloucester, broke his toe while stretching for a shot with the rest."

Intriguing. Did he hit it on something or did it just break spontaneously?

James replies...

"Nope, It just broke. I was busy laughing at him as he was having to use all the furniture (extended cue, extended rest etc.). He was also hampered by a red, so he had to stretch up on tiptoe to even see the shot properly; next thing I knew he'd dropped everything, sending balls flying, and was on the floor clutching his foot!"

Butt head

Tony Parker, ever present member of the Barking Elite Interleague team once incurred the following pool related injury.

Tony was posing with team mates for a photo following their success at Mr Pool's Club, Colchester. Tony was crouching, front row, and decided to inject some humour (?) into the photo by holding his cue above his head as if it were growing out of his head, like a T.V. aerial.

Those who know Tony will appreciate that he is approx 6' tall, those who know Mr Pool's will appreciate the low ceiling and the 45 degree wooden beams at the sides supporting it. Tony stood up after the photo, not thinking to remove cue fom top of head. Tip of cue immediately hits ceiling driving butt end into Tony's skull

Collared

I remember playing in a 3 a side game in the 80's I was playing doubles with a girl called chris. We were standing at the triangle end of the table as our opponents broke.

I saw the white flying towards her head so I tried to pull her out of the way but our legs got tangled and we ended up on the floor with my face in her 40" chest, but my elbow went into her collar bone and broke it.

Even though she was in agony she still peed herself laffing and told me to enjoy the moment cos thats the closest id ever get to sucking her tits, and it was! Shame

Ball off the table

"I was playing a chip shot over two of my oppenents balls, i whacked the bottom of the ball so hard it ended it flying over the table and into my mates sensitive area (if ya know what i mean). He got up and fell back to the floor in a lot of pain. "

"The next day he couldn't walk so i had to drive him to hospital. it turned out that he had almost split one of his balls, and damaged muscles in the penis (ouch!!!!). "

"If ya seen american pie 2, with jim and the bandages, it looked a hell of a lot like that. lots of laughs"

Know any more?