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Bar Brawl Victim Sues Pubs For Serving Underage Perp
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Ben Muessig
Published Dec 27, 2009
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A man who was beaten by an underage drunk in front of a Wall Street-area bar is suing the pubs that served the young boozer and police who purportedly witnessed the brawl and didn't break it up.
Shane Buggy filed suit in Manhattan Supreme Court over the incident last September, in which he claims that an "underage, intoxicated, disruptive, violent and disorderly" Brian Tierny roughed him up. The suit goes after the watering holes Ulysses Folk House on Pearl Street and Hook & Ladder II on John Street for allowing Tierny to drink despite "prior knowledge of both his age and his penchant for violence," the Post reports.
And Buggy is suing the city because police officers allegedly saw the fight, but drove away without doing anything.
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