Rule clarification help please?

[niceday3]

I was playing a friend a few days ago and we were on roughly the same score. I pot a tidy red but lose position slightly on the colour I was going for and end up with a difficult choice. I choose to play a tricky brown as it would lead it me on for a red rather than take the blue (off it's spot) and be on nothing.

I pot the brown but in the process of putting the white 'around the houses' the cue ball canons into the pink and goes into the pocket. I believed that because I had nominated the brown and it went in off the pink i should have given 4 points but my opponent was insistent I owed him 6.
Who was right?

[jrc750]

You, only 4 point penalty

[ste bed]

did you pot the pink or did the white go in off the pink

ha the white canons in off the pink you are right only 4 bu tif the white had knocked the pink in it would have been 6.

[The Statman]

Penalty for wrongly pocketing the pink = 6 points.

[DeanH]

Cannon off the Pink (ie white pots) = 4 points
Plant the Pink (i.e. Pink pots) = 6 points
My reading of the scenario is that the white pots, so 4 points.
It was not that long ago an opponent tried this one on me after I went in-off the green clipping the Blue on the way, he screamed "5!" I said no "4" only.
DeanH

[Souwester]

Cannon off the Pink (ie white pots) = 4 points
Plant the Pink (i.e. Pink pots) = 6 points
My reading of the scenario is that the white pots, so 4 points.

I would agree with that.

[APK]

Cannon off the Pink (ie white pots) = 4 points
Plant the Pink (i.e. Pink pots) = 6 points
My reading of the scenario is that the white pots, so 4 points.

Absolutely correct.