Tonite i stopped 5 bouncers from kicking some guy on the street in the head after they kicked him out of the bar, i didnt feel that it was an appropriate thing for them to be doing. In the process the guy stood up and they pushed him into me, and i fell backwards and fell over a curb, breaking my ankle...is their any legal action i can take against the club or the bouncers???
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Depends on the state you live in. Technically, any action committed where there is intentional contact that can cause injury is considered battery (Texas Penal code). But you would have to have called the police and filed a complaint. They can also be held civilly liable, both the bar and the individuals. They are NOT peace officers, and cannot cause injury except in defense of themselves or a 3rd party. In my experience as a cop, bouncers are a typically (though not exclusively) a group of testosterone driven bullies and thugs that lack the intelligence or ability to secure any other type of employment. Realistically, you face an uphill battle. Good luck.
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Same driver, deaf and dumb party. They all go into pub for a drink and driver asks barman to take care of them while he has a kip in the coach. Barman says there is a problem as how does he know what they want if they can't tell him. Coach driver sorts out a system of signals for beer/spirits ie 1 finger for lager 2 for whisky etc. and then goes for a kip.\nAn hour later the barman is hammering on his coach. He tells the driver that he can't understand what they want as he can't understand the signals. What are they doing asked the driver? They are all stood at the bar opening and closing their mouths and making silly smiley faces.\nOh god said the driver we'll never get them on the coach now! Why said the barman?\nThey are all f-cking singing.
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Honey I would run with my broke leg as far as I could get and I wouldn't look back for nothing!!! If he hasn't called you then he doesn't care and and if he is an alcoholic he needs to get help! You are safer away from him! He gets to drinking and goes crazy again he could seriously harm you! Don't go back there please!!!!
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Write out a timeline of everything that happened, attach any documentation you have supporting this information and send it with a letter of complaint to the state bar association.  Follow up on a weekly basis by phone & in person.  Eventually, if you make enough of an nuisance of yourself they may bring all the lawyers involved up on charges, either suspend them for a length of time or disbar them, and make them reimburse you the amount of money you lost.\n\nI went through this same type of thing in Louisiana with an attorney who barely got me divorced and never followed up on the property settlement or child support.  He ended up being suspended for two months and reimbursing me half of the $1000.00 I'd paid him.  It took me two years of being persistant with the Louisiana bar to finally get some satifisfaction in this situation but it worked.
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Seems like you were at a party and having the time of your life.\n\nI do crazy alcohol induced things at parties too. Don't sweat it.\n\nAlso, leg or no leg, ur invited. Drop me a line if your ever in L.A.
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I was spiked by unknown party during a works night out.  I am not sure of the exact drug but was probably (police say) rohypnol or GHB, the Date-rape wonder drugs.\n\nFYI - (you cant tell from user name!) I was a 26 year old man at the time, and am sure the spike was intended for someone else.\n\nI was the Desi Driver for 6 of us, workmates and partners etc.  We met at a pub at about 9 pm, and I had 1 pint of lager.  At about 10 pm we went into a night club, one of those regional town dives that cater for the inbred population in the area.\n\nALL of the men in this place were drinking pints of lager, while the women were drinking either wine, spirit mixer or alcopops.  As the driver I was drinking Coke.\n\nThe police think that someone dropped a spike without knowing I was the target, while I was away from the group.  I was obviously surrounded by my friends and (also obviously) not a pretty young female, so they must have spiked then stood back to see what they had hooked.  The police call this method "Fishing" or "Baiting" as the rapist trash can throw out a large number of doses, then wait to see what he has "caught"\n\nThe effect was quite traumatic in the aftermath.  In reality, the drugs had their designed effect, i.e. I was passive and calm and have very little memory of the night.  Unfortunately, being under these influences, I was also too out of it to know the situation I was in.\n\nWhile out of my head on these drugs, I drove myself and 5 friends to locations throughout hertfordshire and north London.\n\nMy memories are few and far between.  I remember stopping twice, once so a friend could drop a custard on the pavement, and once on arriving home when I simply thought "I should NOT have driven home" but there was no feeling of guilt or danger associated with these memories.\n\nIt was only when waking up with a cracking "hangover" and speaking with my work colleagues that I put two and two together.  I called the police, and gave a blood test (which was as expected NEGATIVE for alcohol) and this failed to show which exact drug had been administered.\n\nIn the meanwhile I had to consider what MAY have happened on that night - imagine this:\n\nI was driving home in a drug induced stupor with five friends and  colleagues.  None of them noticed I was "drunk" as THEY all were too.  I could easily have crashed, killing some or all of us.  If the police were unable to find any trace of the drug in my system (as is highly likely) I would be charged with Driving without due care and attention / Manslaughter (Murder 3 for Americans!)  And as the drug does it's work, I don't even remember feeling tipsy.  I could easily be close to the beginning of a 15 year prison term because of someone else's lust.\n\nAs a result of this mess, I take MUCH greater care with my drinks, especially in places I am not familiar with.  I also take care of my friends drinks during toilet breaks etc, and always ensure friends get home safely where possible (licensed cabs, walk them, destroyer etc)\n\nI am also much less trusting of strangers in pubs and clubs, and the people who run them.  Apparently the same pub in Hartford's had this recurring problem for almost three years, before stopping abruptly at the same time as a local man was sent to prison for an unrelated offence.  Apparently 3 women had been raped in this time, and with many going unreported (and in many cases the victims are not even aware of the incident) there may have been many more.\n\nGirls - beware.\n\nGuys - you are not immune.
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Wow. Tricky situation. I feel for you. \n\nAre you able to find out about previous similar incidents at the school at what happened to the people involved? Or other schools, to work out what the precedent is in these cases.\n\nI wonder if the Citizen's advice bureau might be able to offer\nsome advice? \n\nYour point that you haven't been trained to deal with situations is a good one. At the end of the day, you only swore, no one got hurt. Sounds as if this is the first time you've been involved in anything like this, and, if you've put up with all the knocks and bangs from before you must be pretty devoted to the job. I hope they'll be lenient. \n\nGood luck.
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As i said before get a solicitor and he will look at all the information you have.Sounds to me the solicitor will sue them for negligance.I had a bad fall 7 years ago down a pot hole right outside the bus stop when i was getting off a bus.I had to have a operation to repair a main ligament which came off the lateral side off my ankle.In plaster cast for 6 wks,then physio for 2 mths.The council admitted lybility and i was offered £24,000 which i accepted.Also the council payed all expensies for the operation in a private hospital,physio treatment.You have a strong case here and sounds to me you will be awarded if won alot more then me as i have not goune through all what you have,also all the operations you have had to recieve,and off course your age.Good Luck
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Go to a lawyer specializing in Personal Injury. Don't sympathize with the one who got you into all this trouble, and don't care whether he is "incompetent" or not. If you are insured, your insurance company and his should be taking care of expenses, but better see a lawyer first. There will be a lot of investigations and interviews from both companies and your lawyer, and everything will come out. Meanwhile, have a record of all your medical bills and correspondence with the insurance companies, etc; take pictures of everything that was affected, especially your injuries---gross as it may seem, if it is, take shots of your wounds, etc., in short, everything! Your lawyer if he is good will need all these.\n\nMy hubby was hit by a car when he was walking, broke a leg, not his fault as he walked on the pedestrian go-signal. The offender's insurance and our insurance took care of all expenses. We went through 3 or so lawyers before we found someone who really worked on it and got us a 6-figure settlement, aside from the payment of all costs involved. \n\nIf your lawyer is hard to contact, doesn't return your calls, and the case is moving slowly, don't be afraid to fire him. There will be others who will take your case. You don't pay them anything because their payment will be a percentage of your settlement, so the bigger they get for you, the bigger money they get, too. \n\nDon't be discouraged. Keep your wits. Look out for yourself. \n\nIf you were in Canada I can give you number of the best injury lawyer there is...
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no its not right. it sounds like self defense to me. im sure you will win in court...do you have any witnesses? you must, since someone had to call the cops
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The first time an african-american friend of mine got in a racially-motivated fight, I wasn't in the room. I was in the bar, but I wasn't in the same room. I saw him getting hustled out the door by a bunch of white people, (I live in a predominantly white community) and I became concerned. \n\nApparently, somebody walked up and said, "I'm gonna kill you, ******!" and started pounding on him. He responded (admirably) by pounding harder on the other guy.\n\nBy the time I got there, Brian was outside, and there was this huge, mountain of a man, being held back by two very small women, because he had just had the **** kicked out of him by Brian. That was the night that I REALLY became friends with Brian. All I told him, was, "Next time, I got your back."\n\nLong story short, the bartender had told Brian that the cops had been called, so he allowed himself to be pushed out of the bar. I met him outside, found out what had happened, and told him, you're always welcome at my bar (the bar I usually go to, not the bar I own). We went there.\n\nThe... (I wanna say "bigot" but I'll say...) racist came back to the same bar a few weeks later (when he'd recovered) and asked Brian if he could drink there. Brian said, "It's not my bar. Ask the owners." He did, and they said, "OK." Neither one of us has been back since. \n\nIt doesn't matter who you're comfortable with, it's what you think is right. I have to think before I speak, with non-white people, but it's only to make sure I won't offend anyone. I know what's right. I grew up in a racist community, listening to racist and homophobic jokes my whole life. Thankfully, neither of my parents are racist or homophobic, so it wasn't taught to me at home. Regrettably, they knew what kind of community they'd moved me into, and thought I'd have a better shot at conforming if they kept their mouths shut and let me make up my own mind. It's a good thing for me, that I'm not easily swayed by nonsense.\n\nEven with the backwoods start I got, I know now that when I meet someone, I meet a person. Not a German, or a Russian, a Brit, a Swahili, or a Columbian. There are a lot bigger differences in people than skin color. I've met a$$holes, angels, perverts, bible thumpers, and a thousand other different types of person, that don't involve parentage in the least. \n\nUnlike most people that include non-whites in their little circles, I'm not just trying to prove that I'm not racist. I KNOW I'm not racist. I have nothing to prove to anyone.\n\nBack to your question: I'm uncomfortable around racists and homophobes. Period. I can hang with Brian because I KNOW he's not racist, and I'm pretty sure he's not homophobic, too. \n\nIf a non-white person walks into the bar, and starts being a (let's say "jerk" because yahoo doesn't like it when I swear) jerk, I'm gonna go over there and call them a jerk. Plain and simple. \n\nIt took me a lot of time to refine this "people are people" thing, (given my background) and now I'm going to be who I am. I've been accused of being a racist, because I called a jerk a jerk, but frankly I don't care what people think of me. I (and my friends) know who I am, and if they (the people who accuse me of such things) are idiots to begin with, then... I've always got Brian to back me up there.\n\nNo, I don't identify myself as being white, any more than I tell people that Brian is black (I would've said african-american, but that's HIS self-description). If I describe someone to another, I make it a point to exclude skin color.\n\nBtw, the reason it took me so long to answer, is because in my original answer (I deleted it and rewrote it) I mentioned the bar too many times, and had to go there. I'm not sober right now.
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That's a real shame.  You poor, poor, poor dumb ass alcoholic.  Ever consider calling a cab?  Worse yet is the fact that the state you live in allowed you to get 5 DUIs.  Where I'm from you will most times serve after your second.  The simple fact of the matter is that being as old as you are... it's already too late for you.  You will never change ever.  You have chosen to spend your life in a bottle chasing wiener half your age and half the time probably getting paid for it.  You say you have a good lawyer, so why post your question here?  In your reality is there going to be a magic answer on the Internet that is going to keep you out of jail?  I'm half your age and even I know that. Jeez.... I really hope you haven't procreated because if you have I'll bet they're proud of you now.  I'll bet you're proud of yourself.  Not once did you even mention being ashamed of yourself or consider what could have happened had you wrecked.  The best thing you can do for yourself is GO TO JAIL.  At least there you can't drink.  Maybe get yourself a little lesbian lover and spend your time planting flowers instead of graves.
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Its a bad idea. I went to a strip club where some of the girls had a similiar problem but they dribbled so much people kept slipping over. They were getting sued left right and centre.
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The definitions of the establishment's responsibility for a drunk patron are fuzzy.\n\nA bartender is obligated to cut-off a person that they perceive to be intoxicated. However, this is a vague definition. The bartender may not notice that you are slurring, for example, if he doesn't pay attention to your conversations. It often boils down to one person's word against another. \n\nThe result of this law is that if you were to get in a wreck and hurt someone, THAT person could sue the establishment for negligence. However, you will not be held blameless, either. If you kill someone, you could be charged with vehicular manslaughter or vehicular homicide. You could be charged with attempted v. mansl. or attempted v. homicide if you only hurt someone. That's a criminal charge, whereas the charge of negligence would be a civil matter. The establishment would also likely be fined and be in danger of losing their liquor license.\n\nYou cannot sue the bartender or the establishment for damages because you got a DUI. Getting a DUI is YOUR fault and you are on your own. It's only when there's some kind of harm to an innocent that an establishment can be held responsible for personal damages. You can file a complaint with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and they will investigate and possibly impose fines or suspension of the liquor license. Not likely, though.\n\nIt happens often that people get visibly drunk in bars. And, it happens often that people hurt others in accidents as a result. The problem is proving that the bartender knew that the person was drunk. Another problem is proving where the person got drunk in the first place. If they can't remember leaving the bar, then it isn't likely that a jury or a judge would accept their claim that they remember where they got drunk in the first place. Many people bar-hop, for instance. What if you went somewhere else after you left that bar? You see the problem. Many people that get in trouble will also not "rat" and will say that they don't remember where they have been or that they were drinking at home.\n\nI could keep going, but this is getting long...
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If you pointed it at some one, they should have taken you to JAIL!!!\n\nYou have a weapon!  If that person were to have had a heart attack at that moment, and died, you would be up for MURDER!!! \n\nYou kids dont think about that, when you do your actions, and what ramifications and permutations are all encompased with your actions...\n\nIf they slap you with the highest fines possible, with out jail time, then you got off lucky!!\n\nNext time, since you have a record now, you may see the inside of the cross bar hotel and bubba will be your boyfriend!!\n\nLearn a valuable lesson this time, as the next time, you wont be so lucky!\n\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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Wow sounds like theres not enough trouble in your life if your going out looking fot what might have happened...I'm sure there are ways of figureing it out. altest at the time the possible incident possibly occured ....geeeeee..how bout chalking it up to experience and not getting so drunk you dont know what happened while apparently being with someone you obviously dont trust.........again i say geeeeeeeeeeeeee
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When it's 10 against 3.... Eh. Even if you're a good fighter, you won't stand much of a chance against 10 people. \n\nMaybe you should report this, but like you said, this could cause backlash from the kid who wants to get back at you.\nAll the advice I can offer is: stay away from this kid as much as you can, at least until it blows over, and if you can, travel with friends. That way, you're less likely to find yourself into situations like that.\nBut if it comes down to fighting, just give it your all and hurt him as bad as you can. In addition, if you're a big guy and are capable of bench-pressing 210 lbs. I'd think you would have a fair chance against this punk. Alone, of course. If he's with friends, like he was at Walgreen's, I say run. \n\nGood luck.