Can I do something about my son getting maced by staff @ a night club??

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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MN

 

[Zigner]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MN

Please try again and do not use the "preview" button.

Oh, and if your son is an adult, there's not much you can do personally.

 

[Silverplum]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MN

No.

But he, as a grown man of legal age to be in a bar, should have called the police after he was assaulted.

 

[Zigner]

No.

But he, as a grown man of legal age to be in a bar, should have called the police after he was assaulted.

I suspect that the staff were well within their rights - I can't wait to hear the story

 

[LdiJ]

I suspect that the staff were well within their rights - I can't wait to hear the story

My brother got the heck beaten out of him by some bouncers in a bar and the police would do nothing. A fight broke out in the bar and he unhappily was walking by, carrying a pitcher of beer and some glasses. He had his back to the combatants and wasn't even aware that a punch had been thrown until someone else between him and the combatants got knocked into his back by the combatants. Naturally his pitcher of beer and the glasses went flying. The bouncers went to town on literally everyone anywhere near the fight and continued to beat them once they got them out the door. My brother spent two days in the hospital. He wasn't even drunk because the pitcher of beer was the first that his group had purchased. His friends didn't even know what happened to him because they were not permitted to leave the bar.

The hospital were the ones who called the police because not only did they beat him into a pulp, but they did not call for medical attention for him nor did the cops at the scene. Some purely innocent bystander called an ambulance for him and then followed the ambulance to the hospital to tell them what they knew. It wasn't even a dive style bar, it was an upscale yuppie type one. The doctors at the hospital actually got nasty with the police who came to take his statement.

He talked to some lawyers but because in the madness of everything he really could not identify anyone, and everything happened so fast that it was barely minutes between someone slamming into his back and virtual unconsciousness, that the lawyers felt that it would go no where.

So...stuff happens, and I can easily believe that someone who was not an actual problem got maced. My brother wasn't even a kid at the time, he was 30 and he and his buddies had been to a Pacer's game and stopped in the bar after to have a drink.

 

[OHRoadwarrior]

Your son is an adult. Only he has standing to attempt some kind of lawsuit. When you go to bars, there is an inherent risk of problems you assume.