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$60,000 for being felled by chops
By Lee Glendinning
June 28 2002
A man was awarded $60,000 in damages yesterday after breaking his arm when he slipped on greasy residue left on the floor of a Sydney pub by a patron who used pork chops for shoes.
Troy Bowron, 25, of Oyster Bay, had sued the Jannali Inn, its licensee, Kelly Wells, and a fellow patron, Ross Lucock, for past and future loss of earnings as an upholsterer.
He said the southern Sydney pub failed to supervise and maintain a safe place and was negligent for not removing Mr Lucock, who was clearly drunk, and had strapped pork chops to his feet with masking tape when a barmaid refused to serve him until he put shoes on.
Judge Anthony Puckeridge found that the Jannali Inn had breached its duty of care by failing to clean the area that Mr Lucock had made a greasy mess after taping the meat to his feet, and therefore did not prevent the risk of injury to patrons. However, Mr Lucock owed no duty of care, Judge Puckeridge said, ordering Mr Bowron to pay Mr Lucock's legal costs.
Judge Puckeridge told the court in his judgement yesterday that Mr Lucock was so drunk he did not even remember placing the pork chops on his feet.
But when Mr Bowron - his then companion - went to take a shot in the pool competition, his right foot slipped from under him, and he barrelled into another patron, falling heavily on the tiled floor, fracturing his left arm.
Since the injury, one doctor told the court, Mr Bowron had suffered a "clicking sensation", scarring, pain and suffering in his left arm.
He is unable to lift heavy weights. He said it was highly likely Mr Bowron would continue to have disabilities in his left arm and could later require elbow replacement.
$60,000 for being felled by chops
By Lee Glendinning
June 28 2002
A man was awarded $60,000 in damages yesterday after breaking his arm when he slipped on greasy residue left on the floor of a Sydney pub by a patron who used pork chops for shoes.
Troy Bowron, 25, of Oyster Bay, had sued the Jannali Inn, its licensee, Kelly Wells, and a fellow patron, Ross Lucock, for past and future loss of earnings as an upholsterer.
He said the southern Sydney pub failed to supervise and maintain a safe place and was negligent for not removing Mr Lucock, who was clearly drunk, and had strapped pork chops to his feet with masking tape when a barmaid refused to serve him until he put shoes on.
Judge Anthony Puckeridge found that the Jannali Inn had breached its duty of care by failing to clean the area that Mr Lucock had made a greasy mess after taping the meat to his feet, and therefore did not prevent the risk of injury to patrons. However, Mr Lucock owed no duty of care, Judge Puckeridge said, ordering Mr Bowron to pay Mr Lucock's legal costs.
Judge Puckeridge told the court in his judgement yesterday that Mr Lucock was so drunk he did not even remember placing the pork chops on his feet.
But when Mr Bowron - his then companion - went to take a shot in the pool competition, his right foot slipped from under him, and he barrelled into another patron, falling heavily on the tiled floor, fracturing his left arm.
Since the injury, one doctor told the court, Mr Bowron had suffered a "clicking sensation", scarring, pain and suffering in his left arm.
He is unable to lift heavy weights. He said it was highly likely Mr Bowron would continue to have disabilities in his left arm and could later require elbow replacement.
