Man sues strip club after being hit in face by dancer's shoe

Man sues strip club after being hit in face by dancer's shoe

A man is suing a strip club after he was hit in the nose by a stripper's platform shoe.

By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 9:29PM GMT 23 Jan 2009

Yusuf Evans, who is suing for £18,000 ($25,000), was watching exotic dancer "Tiara" perform a high kick when her shoe flew off her foot and smacked him in the face.

He is asking for the damages over injuries he says will require surgery claiming he can only breath out of one side of his nose.

Mr Evans, 37, who was visiting the XTC club in Akron, Ohio, last year, said he does not normally frequent strip clubs but made an exception because he was entertaining friends from out of town.

He explained: "When the boot hit me in my face all I could do is drop... and just holler for about ten minutes."

He continued: "She ran, at a nice speed, grabbed the pole and flung her whole body around, all her weight flung that in a circle around the pole and her boot flew off and it hit me in my nose."

The lawsuit with Summit County Commons Please Court says XTC management allowed dancers to wear improper attire and required strippers to perform dances that made the stage a hazardous place.

Mr Evans filed the lawsuit a year to the day he was injured because he says he still suffers pain from the chipped bone in his nose.

"The bills, the pain, my nose that ain't gonna go away unless I have surgery and I don't like surgery so I don't know what I'm gonna do about that."

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