Posted on 05/04/2015 5:05:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A BAR owner accused of killing a customer by letting him drink 56 “shots” of spirits went on trial for manslaughter yesterday.
The 57-year-old man was trying to beat a record of 55 shots in one evening at Le Starter, a bar in Clermont-Ferrand, central France.
The landlord allegedly told his customer “only 12 to go” as he neared his target.
After completing the challenge, he was carried home by his daughter and friends – but he had a heart attack and died the next day.
The daughter’s lawyer Antoine Portal said before the trial: “It is not known whether he would still be alive if he had not drunk the last 12 shots. But it was a case of inciting someone to consume.”
The bar owner’s lawyer Renaud Portejoie admitted that a “leader board” alerting customers to the existing record for shots was “a mistake”. But he added: “No one forced him to take on the challenge. Customers are responsible for themselves.”
Health chiefs in France have warned about an increase in binge drinking – and claim young people there are copying British culture.
Did he make the Guinness Book of Records?
Dram Laws here would most certainly hold the bartender legally responsible.
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A guy I knew in Alaska had a blood alcohol level of .47. Sadly, he was floating face down in the harbor at the time.
He did become a Darwin finalist.
I did 22 shots of tequila once in a five way bet. I won. Played monopoly afterwards. Don’t remember the outcome.
Now the smell would cause palpitations.
Darn near cured me of drinking...!!!
That amount seems impossible to imbibe in one setting.
What an idiot, in a group of idiots.
I too blame the British. The French are never wrong.
If the guy who held the record at 55 shots didn’t die then how can the prosecution say that the bartender should have known 56 was fatal?
What did you win?
Great song...
Listeners actually called the show to warn them.. I think a total of ten station personnel were fired.
a lousy fifty bucks.
I drank a shipload of 151 rum on my 18th birthday, after downing a whole bunch of other drinks. The smell of rum gives me the shivers to this day.
It was the guy’s own fault for not knowing his tolerance level. While an 18 year old may not know it yet, after a few years you pretty much know what your limits are.
Myself, I can go through 3/4 of a bottle of wodka with no problems -and on a daily (nightly?) basis. Did it for years with no ill effects, not even a hangover. Sadly, I have had to cut back in recent years after repeated warnings that the human liver was not immune to the effects of such repeated demands upon its resources.
You just have to know your limits. Oh, and it was a LARGE bottle (1.5L), not the smaller one (750mL).
And you still had it the next morning?
If he was drinking alone, he should have been by himself.
lol. It WAS GREAT being 18. Built like a Greek God (now I’m bloated like the Greek debt) tons of girls, practically no responsibilities, could drink Alabama slammers endlessly, every now and then get into a brawl, get to sleep at 5am, and wake up at 9 and go to work :) :)
don’t remember at all lol. Was at Christine’s house (future girlfriend) waiting for current HOT gf from jersey shore to come, did the contest, played monopoly, girl from Jersey finally got there and screamed and yelled something about me not picking her up or caring about her or something, who the hell knows, left her there and went to the Caves (club)with friends.
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