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When it takes b@!!s to file a lawsuit…

January 12th, 2010. By AbiK

chair 300x300 When it takes b@!!s to file a lawsuit... I’m on a roll, baby. First, the pole dance lawsuit. Now, I’m moving on to lap dances.

The name: Gerard Wall.

The lowdown: Gerard—I feel like I want to call him “Gerry”—is a guy from Delaware; fwiw, reports indicate he’s 39 years old. He visited Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club on the west side in New York City. He went in for a good time. He apparently doesn’t remember how good of a time he may have had. He filed a lawsuit claiming that his good time cost him over $21,000—$21,620.60 exactly, split between his AMEX and Discover cards—when he only agreed to a $300 lap dance. Other details in the suit: he had 2 drinks within 90 minutes and was apparently so blotto that a Hustler employee had to drive him home.

Now, I get that there may have been some error in billing. And that this may well be a legitimate lawsuit. And that this is not, by far, the first time some guy goes into a strip joint and leaves not realizing he’s about to have his memory of the night jarred by a credit card statement in the mail(jarred even moreso if it’s his wife opening the mail).

No, what I find interesting about these kinds of lawsuits is the stigma that surrounds them. Sure, folks’ll be saying “that Larry Flynt, he’s no good” and all. And I’m sure Larry’s used to that kind of talk. But for Gerard Wall, anyone’s Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Gerard Wall, Hustler, lap dance
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