DUI an Occupational Hazard for Strippers?

Here’s a little bit of local news that caught my attention this week. Patsy Hamaker, a stripper at the Birmingham, AL gentlemen’s club The Furnace, is suing her employer because managers allowed her to leave in an intoxicated state. On her drive home she was involved in an accident in which she was injured and was also charged with DUI.

"Defendants ... allowed a dangerous condition to exist by allowing said plaintiff to leave its establishment in such an intoxicated state while under said defendants' supervision and control," according to the suit.

It is part of Patsy’s “job” to scam club patrons into buying her overpriced and what are usually watered down drinks, she does share a percentage of the sales of these drinks with the club. However I still fail to see where it is anyone’s fault but her own that she was injured and charged with DUI.

Sounds like to me she's got a lap dance lawyer that is urging her to play the victim card... if she gets an all male jury it may even work.

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The bottom line is that the only one who is responsible for a DUI is the drinker, regardless of the reason or rationalization. The only good thing about this whole deal is that I got to use my Lindsay Lohan stripper picture from her flop I Know Who Killed Me and once again (see drunken ninja) my home area is featured on the national news in such a flattering light.