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Take one step into a strip club and you’re automatically at least to some degree a sucker. Because paying women lots of money to dance on your lap and then not have sex with you isn’t exactly a Warren Buffett-style value investment.
But if that’s your way off blowing off a little steam, who am I to judge you? But spend a third of your salary in one booze-filled haze and I am going to judge you. I am going to judge you hard.
Gil David, a Northern Irish wanker- and that term in this case more a statement of fact than an insult- got absolutely hammered at his friend’s bachelor party at the Spearmint Rhino Gentleman’s Club in Birmingham, England and then woke up to a £7,500 (nearly $10,000) bill. He said that amount is roughly a third of his yearly salary.
Look, bad things happen when you put down about 30 drinks of mostly beer and Jäger in 12 hours. If you’re going to get that blitzed, you’re going to have to live with the consequences. But Gil refused to take the loss without a fight, and sued the club for “coercing” him into pissing away his money by keeping on offering him drinks and doing who knows what with strippers after he was drunk.
Could the club have cut Gil off? Sure, I guess theoretically they could have. But if strip clubs stopped taking advantage of their drunk and vulnerable patrons, they would lose roughly 100% of their revenue.
Yet the outcome turned out better for Gil than we could have reasonably expected. The parties agreed to settle, with David being awarded a confidential sum.
After hearing Gil David’s tale, I am now inspired to sue Domino’s for “coercing” me into spending a good deal of my money on their pizza when I was clearly intoxicated during college.
(h/t Metro)
https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/754632756072710144
