And With That, A New Bar Game Emerges . . .
. . . specifically, Would you chop off your leg for $2.3 million? Like what happened to this guy:
Posted: February 19th, 2009 | Filed under: Follow The Money, Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The ChinA Brooklyn man whose right leg was ripped off by a train after he drunkenly ended up on a subway track has been awarded $2.3 million by a Manhattan jury.
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His lawyer argued the train’s motorman had time to stop when he caught a glimpse of the man on the tracks from 180 feet away.
“He thought it was garbage,” said lawyer Andrew Smiley.
[The plaintiff] had a sky-high blood-alcohol level of 0.18 and didn’t recall arriving at Union Square, where he was hit by an N train.
“They’re not allowed to hit you just because you’re drunk and on the track,” Smiley said. “That doesn’t give the Transit Authority a free pass.”