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Elderly Houston-area woman sues Red Lobster after getting drunk, breaking hip
Houston Chronicle ^ | 9-19-2017 | Robert Downen

Posted on 09/19/2017 9:05:47 AM PDT by Snickering Hound

An 82-year-old Harris County woman is suing Red Lobster, saying the seafood restaurant got her so drunk she fell and broke her hip and arm in the parking lot.

The suit filed in Harris County Monday says that 113-pound Marlene Spencer had a 0.31 blood alcohol level when she walked out of the Red Lobster on Bay Area Boulevard in Webster on or around March 27.

Spencer, who lives at the nearby Brookdale Senior Living at Clear Lake, fell in the parking lot, breaking her right hip and right arm, and hitting her head on the ground, the suit says.

She was then taken to Clear Lake Regional hospital, where she stayed for six days and underwent a total hip replacement, according to the suit.

It was not the first time Spencer or other residents of the senior living center had been over-served at the restaurant, the suit says. Spencer’s daughter had multiple conversations with the Red Lobster management about over-serving her mother, according to the lawsuit.

“This was an ongoing problem that Ms. Spencer’s daughter tried to quell, but to no avail,” the suit says. “This has been a recurring problem with multiple Brookdale residents.”

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Well, that's one way to make Reyt Lobska edible...
1 posted on 09/19/2017 9:05:47 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

No law against drinking and walking. But apparently personal responsibility’s way out of style.


2 posted on 09/19/2017 9:08:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Snickering Hound

Over served? Perhaps the lady purchased and subsequently consumed far too many drinks.


3 posted on 09/19/2017 9:08:54 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Snickering Hound

“No more cheddar biscuits until you guzzle another one, Marlene.”

The fiends.


4 posted on 09/19/2017 9:09:18 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Snickering Hound

So...the wait staff brought her drinks she did not order and then held her down and used a funnel to get her to ingest the alcoholic drinks? There has to be more to this story.


5 posted on 09/19/2017 9:10:27 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Snickering Hound; Chode; Tax-chick
They will probably win.

PING!

TC- is Your Mother loose in Texas ? 😜

6 posted on 09/19/2017 9:10:42 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: Rurudyne
Those darn seniors!


7 posted on 09/19/2017 9:10:57 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Snickering Hound

This woman should be absolutely ashamed of herself.

She’s a drunk.

Period.

.


8 posted on 09/19/2017 9:12:13 AM PDT by Mears
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To: DariusBane

No win situation. Get cut off at two drinks, sue Red Lobster for age discrimination (or other type, depending on minority qualifications, etc).


9 posted on 09/19/2017 9:12:17 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Snickering Hound
She's 83....fell in a parking lot which implies both a car and a "helpmate".

Why do I have a feeling there were two drunk people involved.

10 posted on 09/19/2017 9:12:56 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: mabarker1

Insurance will settle!!!


11 posted on 09/19/2017 9:13:48 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Snickering Hound

Get drunk at Red Lobster? She was probably blowing a 2.0 before she arrived.


12 posted on 09/19/2017 9:14:58 AM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Ms. Spencer has always been free to dine elsewhere.
The Red Lobster is a public restaurant, not a Day Care facility for fragile elderly people.
If the daughter sees herself as her mom’s advocate or responsible caregiver, then the daughter shares in this outcome by bringing her mom back to this restaurant, over and over, despite their practice of “overserving” serving drinks.

If the mother demanded to patronize this restaurant, then someone should have come with her as a minder or assistant.
This is not the job of the restaurant.
They may get a settlement as ‘go the eff away!” money.
Afterwhich, this restaurant has a right to ask Ms Spencer to never darken their revolving doors again.


13 posted on 09/19/2017 9:15:41 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Snickering Hound

She was having dinner
She had too much to drink
She fell and broke her hip
She was at Red Lobster

Red Lobster
Red Lobster


14 posted on 09/19/2017 9:16:04 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Snickering Hound

There is much that could be said, much that might be said about this lawsuit, bowever gentlemanly manners prevents me.


15 posted on 09/19/2017 9:16:22 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Snickering Hound
The daughter said they have talked to Red Lobster before about over serving her mother.

That kind of blows the law case right there.

Bet the daughter has a piece of paper that says mom can't make decisions when she's out of it.

That makes the daughter responsible if she knows this was going on.

The article doesn't say who the 82 year old was with...you can bet she wasn't alone. Still searching.

16 posted on 09/19/2017 9:17:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Snickering Hound

I was leaning towards taking the restaurant’s side in this, but this comment changed my mind:

“This was an ongoing problem that Ms. Spencer’s daughter tried to quell, but to no avail,” the suit says. “This has been a recurring problem with multiple Brookdale residents.”

Fact is, we’ve come to a place in our civilization that if you are going to sell alcohol to people for consumption on the premisis, you need to be as aware as a reasonable person would be expected to be of whether or not they should be having another drink. It would be hilarious to have a “response time detector” at the bar and, when asked, you have to use it to prove you are sober enough to have another drink.


17 posted on 09/19/2017 9:17:35 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Mears
"She’s a drunk."

I tend to agree. A normal 113 lb woman, particularly one this age, could not get close to a .31 BAC unless they had built up a strong tolerance. Most women this size and age would pass out before they even got to .20 I'd bet that she didn't even look that drunk to the server. Every patrol cop has a story about the DUI suspect they were about to let go after the field sobriety tests until they administered a breath test and the person lit it up like a pinball machine.

18 posted on 09/19/2017 9:17:54 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Snickering Hound

They obviously imprisoned her and forced the booze down her throat. Otherwise she got drunk because she chose to drink the alcohol i.e. she made herself drunk.


19 posted on 09/19/2017 9:18:42 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (The Red Lobster made her drunk? Surely it was worse than that. Yhe)
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To: Snickering Hound
Olive Garden is probably thinking they dodged a bullet.

-PJ

20 posted on 09/19/2017 9:18:55 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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