Iraq has the Red Zone, one of its most dangerous neighborhoods (although statistics are somewhat unscientific due to all the scientists having fucking left.) America now has its own Red Zone, which is apparently a fifty-mile radius surrounding your local strip club.
First there was Sean Bell, although we're pretty sure the groom-to-be's wedding day death was not the first strip club shooting. Today, we received word of a man suing a New York City strip club for injuries suffered while receiving a lap dance. And no, it wasn't that kind of injury.
A securities trader was getting his tease on at a Madison Square Garden-area strip club called the Hot Lap Dance Club when
According to the lawsuit, as the dancer swung around, the heel of her shoe hit him in the eye, causing him "serious injuries.
Other sources indicate the man has been blinded in that eye. It wouldn't even be the first time someone suffered lasting damage from a visit to a strip club, and we're not just talking about psychological damage. Another patron was given a black eye by a strip club bouncer and one man died while getting the world's longest lap dance. And, of course, Sean Bell and his friends were gunned down outside a Queens strip club when cops thought he may have happened to possess a gun somewhere on his person, or at home.
We're now officially afraid of strip clubs.
Link: Man Dies After Two Hour Marathon Lap Dance...
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