If You Live in Alabama, You’d Better Lock Up Your Pool Table!!
I have just learned from a reliable source (our local news) that it is illegal to let people under the age of 19 play billiards without the supervision of a parent. I know this because the owner of a teen club in a nearby town was arrested, and the billiard tables are being confiscated because of underage-pool-playing. As one irate parent stated, we can send our 18-year-olds to Iraq, but we can’t let them play pool?? Another example of our laws working to protect us from the real dangers lurking in the world today. Pool tables.
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 am
…Trouble! And that starts with T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!
(The Music Man)
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:07 am
OH, Marcy I was coming to say the same thing. HA! that is so funny.
“There’s trouble in River City”
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
A smart lawyer would be able to get his clients off if they were arrested under this law, since almost no one, anywhere, has actually ever seen a real billiard table. Billiards is a game played on a table larger than a pool table which has no pockets. Sometimes pool is referred to as “pocket billiards”, but in general people who sell pool tables or run pool halls refer to pool as “billiards” because they think it sounds classier.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:44 am
LOL–Now I want to go see that musical again!
RevJATB, You’ve just educated me! I knew there was some difference between the two, but I never knew what it was!