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Lawsuit of the Day: Another Reason to Keep Your Daughter Off the Pole

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Chris Rock said that the primary job of a father was to keep his daughter off of the stripper pole. The father of ReAnna M. Hedrick must be very sad today. Not only did his daughter stray onto the pole, she managed to injure herself while dancing. The Arizona Republic reports:

An ill-fated stint as an amateur pole dancer left a woman bleeding at an East Mesa sports bar and the owners of a Famous Sam’s facing a lawsuit.
While attending a “Ladies Night” on Sept. 3, 2008, ReAnna M. Hedrick of Mesa watched other women take a spin around a dance pole that had been installed for the event and decided to give it a whirl.
The last thing Hedrick, 28, expected was that the pole would collapse, causing her to crash to the floor, according to a lawsuit filed on Oct. 16 in Maricopa County Superior Court.

One would think that Hedrick would be so ashamed that she wouldn’t want to memorialize her erotic failure in a lawsuit. But she hurt her finger, and now she needs money from the club. Boy, I hope she didn’t break a nail.
Details after the jump.


Apparently, Hedrick’s main issue is that the bar didn’t care about her injuries:

As the pole fell, Hedrick attempted to hang on to the jagged top, which sliced off the tip of her ring finger, the suit said. The pole was about 10-feet tall and fell after it broke away from the ceiling.
“I don’t think she would have called us” if the bar’s management had called 911 or showed some concern for her condition after the incident, said Lewis Moore III, Hedrick’s attorney.

Okay, fair enough. The bar could have at least pointed her in the direction of medical attention.
But check out the list of injuries Hedrick is claiming. How many of these were caused by the faulty pole, and how many were caused by her own personal embarrassment?

The suit accuses 3rd Base Inc., the sports bar’s owner, of negligence in failing to install the pole properly, creating “an unsafe condition” for bar patrons.
Hedrick required reconstructive surgery to her left ring finger. She also suffered neck and shoulder pain, depression and anxiety from the fall, according to the suit.

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Depression and anxiety? Yeah. Think about how her father feels.
Woman sues after pole dancing incident at Mesa sports bar [AZCentral]

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