South Florida's famed strip clubs are a popular tourist attraction. But they are also a common source of injuries and accidents.
Recently, a stripper at the popular South Florida Strip Club, Cheetah, struck a patron in the face with her heel. The stripper had spun around in reaction to someone touching her as she was walking along the bar, with her feet near the patrons' heads. When she spun around she struck the injured patron in the face, with her heel.
It was not exactly known what type of shoe the stripper was wearing. However, it was a platform type shoe with a metal heel.
The metal heel struck the patron in the face, shattering his eye socket. The patron also suffered from broken bones around his eye and his nose. The patron now suffers from permanent double vision and frequent dizziness. The patron was awarded $650,000 as a result of the injuries he sustained at the strip club.
This is not the first time injuries have occurred inside a strip club. The highly publicized incident involving NFL star Adam "Pacman" Jones illustrates the dangers one can encounter while visiting a strip club. In that incident, a shooting left one person paralyzed and two others wounded.
Other strip club claims have centered on the hazard of sky-high platform shoes strippers frequently wear.
In New York, for instance, a man sued after a stripper giving him a lap dance swiveled and smacked him in the face with her shoe. Locally, a Broward man sued after a woman's stiletto flew off during a pole dance, shattering a mirror and cutting him.
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