[TexasFreeper2009]

This doesn't make any sense at all... if she was outside it would of been a public sidewalk maintained and lighted by the city. I don't see any way possible the bar is responsible.

[Beagle8U]

” I don't see any way possible the bar is responsible.”

Does the bar allow smoking inside? Or do they force smokers to go stand outside on poorly lit cracked sidewalks?

Pay up anti-smoking Nazis!

[WayneS]

Maybe the laws are different in the UK.

Also, six months seems like a long time to be off work for a broken leg unless she is a dancer or something. I was back in my office three days after surgery to plate & screw complete tib/fib fractures which were just short of being compound (sustained in a motorcycle racing accident).

PS - I did NOT sue the race track owner, the promoter OR the guy whose engine blew up and coated the track with oil — in fact I never even considered it. ;^)

[absolootezer0]

well, the bar makes her go outside to smoke.

of course the gov’t probably made the bar make her go outside..

[Just another Joe]

if she was outside it would of been a public sidewalk maintained and lighted by the city.

Not necessarily. If the smoking area was outside and maintained by the nightclub, but not public property like a sidewalk.........

[HamiltonJay]

Nope, sorry, better check your local laws... YOU are responsible for the sidewalk in front of your home/business. Even if the city put it in, like it or not its maintenance is YOUR responsiblity.

Of course that’s assuming she was on the “public” sidewalk, all the article says is smoking area, which could have been a patio or something else the bar had.