by Jack Lee
Let’s go bar hopping,… what’s the worst that could happen? Well, here’s a sobering update from today’s news that may give you a little pause before hoisting a few:
Sacramento – A 24 year old, Adam Morrissey, showed complete and utter lack of concern for his fellow humans when he used his Dodge truck as a battering ram and took out a group of people sitting in an outside bar patio. The patrons scattered, but 31 year old Clifton J. Quick, was not quite quick enough as he fled into the parking lot…. he bounced off the right front fender of Morrissey’s truck, but suffered only minor injuries.
What could justify such blind rage?
Turns out Morrissey was cut off because he had too much to drink and was removed from the bar when he became obnoxious. Morrissey now faces felony charges that could land him in prison for the next 7 years. ( Is that really enough? )
Sacramento – Three days ago Security Guard Leroy Fisher, age 67, was run down in the parking lot of the bar where he worked. This incident came after the suspect, Michael Weisz, 23, was removed from the bar. Weisz waited in his 2005 Toyota Scion until Fisher came outside and began walking across the large open parking lot. Weisz then took aim and ran him down and fled the scene. Weisz turned himself in 24 hours later. He now faces First degree murder charges. This incident occurred at a local gay bar called Badlands (hey…even gay bars aren’t safe!).
Then down to Texas, A man was arrested early this morning in connection with the stabbing of another man at the Revolution bar near Dallas. Police said David Daramy, 27, went to the bar just after 2 a.m. After he asked for alcohol, but was not served because the bar had closed, Daramy became argumentative because he thought he was special and should be served after hours. This brainiac then started a fight and stabbed the bartender in arm. He fled the scene but police bagged him and now he is facing serious charges. Texans take offense to messing with their bartenders.
Last week over in Brooklyn, A barroom dispute sparked a fatal pre-dawn shooting that left two men dead, police said. Ignacio Mendez, 18, and pal Carlos Flores Rojas, 21, were shot dead after they got into a beef with other partygoers at a bar on 39th St. in Sunset Park. Mendez and Rojas left the bar shortly after 4 a.m. and had walked a short distance when they were approached by two men, a police source said.
The shooters got away.
Florida – A couple walked out of Rosies bar near 1 a.m. and were suddenly confronted by an angry man wielding a gun and a baton who had been a bar patrol earlier. In the parking lot, he began chasing the man as the woman got into her car. (But, she sat there..with her car unlocked and her window open) When the angry guy couldn’t catch the man, he went after the woman still sitting like a dolt in the car. Instead of calling 911 the woman stupidly warned the attacker she was “going to call” 9-1-1. The man simply reached into her car, grabbed her phone and snapped it in half and slapped her in the face. He then pulled out an expandable baton and smashed the car’s windshield in a fit of anger. At that point, the male victim came back to try to protect his wife, and the suspect went after him again with the baton before he decided to flee the scene. As the not-so-brave husband was running away, he looked back and saw the suspect fire a gun toward him, then drive off.
The good part is a deputy responding to the scene saw the suspect in his car, running a red light, and pulled him over. The report says the man acknowledged being at the bar but denied being in any scuffles. But the couple and another witness took a look at the driver and identified him as the attacker. The deputy searched the car, the report says, and found a revolver and a bullet casing in the cup holder.
The suspect was identified as Gerald Fredolen Padot Jr., 47, of 10607 Kitten Trail in Hudson. He faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, burglary with assault or battery and criminal mischief. He remained in the Pasco County Jail in Land O’Lakes on Wednesday with bail set at $155,150.
Lancaster – Two men, a father (the father was a local mayoral candidate) and son were out on the town having more than a few drinks when they entered the Britisher Bar and the younger man, began using racial slurs against the patrons, one of which was black. He was eventually cut off and told to leave. At this point he yelled, “Heil Hitler” and “White Power”.
When bar staff did throw him out, they failed to call sheriff’s deputies or keep him from coming back.
Delaney returned later and this time he randomly attacked a patron, with a butcher knife a female friend brought to him while he waited outside the bar. The stabbing victim is now suing the bar for failure to take reasonable precautions to insure his safety as well as suing the suspect. Afte this attack Delaney then ran across the street to another bar and stabbed yet another innocent black man who was merely waiting to sing Kareoke. Delaney is awaiting trial on charges of attempted murder.
This reputed racist gang member now faces more than 25 years in prison after admitting he stabbed two men because they are African-American.
TN: Dan Maddy was in the wrong place at the wrong time. His attorney says he could have bled to death after he was the victim of violent, unprovoked attack by a drunken patron of Ruby Tuesday’s bar – fortunately the bar was located near a hospital. “If he hadn’t been treated quickly he might have died,” says Maddy’s lawyer, Joe DeGaetano. He suffered severe personal injury: “His carotid artery was severed and he has permanent scarring.”
A jury recently ordered the bar to pay Maddy $10 million in punitive exemplary damages as well as $25,000 for pain and suffering and another $10,000 for permanent impairment and disfigurement.
An aircraft inspector from Michigan, Dan Maddy was on vacation and having a quiet drink and minding his business. Over the course of the evening, another patron of the bar began verbally harassing Maddy. Although the man was growing increasingly drunk, the bartender continued to serve him.
The man told Maddy he doubted he was an aircraft inspector. Maddy laughed and asked if he would believe him if he told him he was a sewer inspector. A few minutes later the man smashed a beer across Maddy’s face and raked the glass down his neck and across his chest.
“Our client told us how much the man had to drink and it was a lot,” says DeGaetano. “During the discovery process we obtained the surveillance tape from the bar that showed the bartender had served him 110 ounces of beer and 8 ounces of 100 proof liquor,” says DeGaetano. “That’s the equivalent of 19 mugs of beer.”
According to the documents, Ruby Tuesday’s denied that the man appeared intoxicated, denied that the amount served was excessive and didn’t believe that they had over-served a drunken patron.
“We had receipts from the bar and it showed how much the man had to drink, but it does help when jurors could see with their own eyes,” says DeGaetano, who believes that the video tape helped the jury come to reach a very clear and expensive verdict against Ruby Tuesday’s.
“They were sending a message,” says DeGaetano. “”The public is not going to tolerate an abdication of responsibility when it comes to the over-serving of alcohol.”
The intoxicated man was convicted of aggravated assault and spent 6 months in prison in Tennessee.