{"id":4477,"date":"2009-02-19T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2009-02-19T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:05:52","slug":"and_with_that_a_new_bar_game_emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/and_with_that_a_new_bar_game_emerges.html","title":{"rendered":"And With That, A New Bar Game Emerges . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . specifically, Would you chop off your leg for $2.3 million? Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2009\/02\/17\/2009-02-17_man_who_lost_leg_while_drunk_on_subway_t.html\">what happened to this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A 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.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer argued the train&#8217;s motorman had time to stop when he caught a glimpse of the man on the tracks from 180 feet away. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thought it was garbage,&#8221; said lawyer Andrew Smiley. <\/p>\n<p>[The plaintiff] had a sky-high blood-alcohol level of 0.18 and didn&#8217;t recall arriving at Union Square, where he was hit by an N train. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not allowed to hit you just because you&#8217;re drunk and on the track,&#8221; Smiley said. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t give the Transit Authority a free pass.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . specifically, Would you chop off your leg for $2.3 million? Like what happened to this guy: A 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. . . . His lawyer argued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}