In one of the most bizarre cases in recent legal history, an Australian pub is being sued by one of its customers who claims he broke his arm after slipping on grease left by the pork chops another customer was wearing as shoes.
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The plaintiff, Troy Michael Bowron, is suing the Jannali Inn in Sydney over the incident, which happened 30 November 1997. He is also suing its owner, Kelly Wells, and the customer who wore the pork chops as shoes, Ross Lucock.
Bowron told the New South Wales district court on Monday [yesterday] that he had been playing pool at the bar on the night in question. He sipped on the grease left by the chops Lucock had been wearing as shoes, for amusement.
Bowron is suing the bar and Wells for negligence for “permitting the use of pork chops as footwear in circumstances that the defendant knew, or should have known, would have produced a hidden trap”.
He is also suing Lucock, alleging he created a situation of danger.
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