Fla. man to get $650,000 for strip club injury
AP Friday, October 15, 2010
A South Florida attorney says his client will get $650,000 after a dancer's platform shoe shattered his eye socket at a strip club.
Attorney Lake Lytal III says the Cheetah club's insurance company agreed earlier this month to pay Michael Ireland for the injury. Lytal says Ireland has had eye problems since the 2008 incident at the West Palm Beach club.
He says the dancer claimed in a deposition she was walking on the bar, felt someone touch her and swung around. Lytal says her metal heel went into Ireland's eye socket and shattered it, requiring extensive surgery.
The Cheetah club wouldn't comment. The insurance company didn't immediately return a phone message. The patron left an obscene call on the reporter's voice mail.
Several patrons of the club said shattered eye sockets were commonplace at the club. "If you are going to stare up at a barely covered woman's crotch and someone else illegally touches her, you can expect a steel-toed heel in your eye," said one of the patrons Allen Hookerstein, on condition of anonymity from his wife, Amy Hookerstein, who didn't know he went to strip clubs, until now.
It was not immediately clear how the dancer's steel capped heel missed the patron's mouth, instead striking the much smaller eye socket.
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