Bama tea bagger gets two years

Is no one going to fucking acknowledge this? Fuck you all.

 

Punk should have got more than two years.

 

How do you know there wasn't any security? Just because it happened there doesn't automatically make Krystal liable. Sometimes shit like this just happens even though the venue did nothing wrong.

The question is whether Krystal imposed reasonable industry security and training measures under the circumstances, and whether a failure to impose them caused this to happen. Reasonable security measures here does not mean keeping the drunks out of a Krystal next to Bourbon Street after midnight. There's no reasonable expectation that the Bourbon Street Krystal will be drunk-free when you enter it at that hour, instead the expectation is that you'll be surrounded by barely anything but drunks. Drunks are the voluntary risk assumption when you enter that place at that hour (not to mention the fact that the victim here assumed further risk by entering as a soon to be passed out drunk himself).

If you can show Krystal employees witnessed the tea-bagging, could've stopped it, but did nothing, you might have a solid negligence theory. If you could show they had no security on duty, or failed to abide by other security measures expected under the circumstances, you might have a solid negligence theory. But you're not gonna get far arguing that they're negligent merely because drunks were there--instead a judge is gonna laugh at you and toss your suit out before it ever gets near a jury.

That said, I suspect a skilled PI attorney could find a way to squeeze a settlement out of Krystal here, whether warranted or not.

 

And, to be clear, I'm not saying a suit would have merit. But that doesn't mean Krystal wouldn't settle anyway.

 

There's a Krystal's employee in the video.

 

True. Under the tort system we have it's often cheaper to settle than defend.

 

The best part of this is when all Krystal employees have to start watching training videos on what to do if a patron starts rubbing his junk on the face of a passed-out drunk. How do you put out a casting call for that in Chattanooga?

 

Supposed to be an article about the trial in an upcoming ESPN The Magazine. Don't know what happens now that the trial was not held. I imagine there will still be something.

 

Perhaps a frame by frame pictorial?

 

Free Krystals for life*









*add cheese for $0.20

 

There are some people out there who would gladly take that as a settlement for a lawsuit.

 

Those people went to Auburn.