A trip to the strip club turned into a trip to the bank for a Florida man who won a $650,000 settlement after an exotic dancer kicked him in the face.
Michael Ireland received the out-of-court settlement after claiming he suffered permanent double vision when a dancer named Suki booted him in the eye at the Cheetah Club near West Palm Beach in 2008.
Ireland's attorney said their client suffered a punctured eye socket and broken facial bones when the stripper kicked him in the face with a spiked high heel during a lap dance, according to NBCMiami.com.
But according to MyFoxOrlando.com, Cheetah Club boss Rod Kimbrough said last year that the dancer in question is a very nice, young small girl who only kicked Ireland because she had been smacked first.
A patron violently slapped the young woman on her buttocks and she was walking around the top of the bar and I guess out of a natural response she turned around and kicked him, Kimbrough said.
Ireland's attorney Lake Lytal says the settlement is well deserved.
When this case was first filed, many people criticized it simply because it occurred at a strip club, Lytal told the press. But we feel the $650,000 settlement goes to show that this was a serious case with serious injuries.
This isn't the first time a Florida man filed a lawsuit for injuries sustained at strip club. According to The Smoking Gun, Paul Shimkonis lost his 1998 case against a Clearwater club where he claimed he suffered whiplash when dancer Tawny Peaks struck him in the face with her breasts.
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Michael Ireland received the out-of-court settlement after claiming he suffered permanent double vision when a dancer named Suki booted him in the eye at the Cheetah Club near West Palm Beach in 2008.
Ireland's attorney said their client suffered a punctured eye socket and broken facial bones when the stripper kicked him in the face with a spiked high heel during a lap dance, according to NBCMiami.com.
But according to MyFoxOrlando.com, Cheetah Club boss Rod Kimbrough said last year that the dancer in question is a very nice, young small girl who only kicked Ireland because she had been smacked first.
A patron violently slapped the young woman on her buttocks and she was walking around the top of the bar and I guess out of a natural response she turned around and kicked him, Kimbrough said.
Ireland's attorney Lake Lytal says the settlement is well deserved.
When this case was first filed, many people criticized it simply because it occurred at a strip club, Lytal told the press. But we feel the $650,000 settlement goes to show that this was a serious case with serious injuries.
This isn't the first time a Florida man filed a lawsuit for injuries sustained at strip club. According to The Smoking Gun, Paul Shimkonis lost his 1998 case against a Clearwater club where he claimed he suffered whiplash when dancer Tawny Peaks struck him in the face with her breasts.
Link: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/a...ter-being-kicked-in-face-by-stripper/19675743
