Take It Like a Man

You know, if you're going to be a twisted pervert, could you at least be a shadow of a man about it? As far as we're concerned, this is like suing a bartender for serving you too many drinks or, perhaps more apt, suing a baseball stadium for getting hit by a foul ball. You assume the risk and, as far as we're concerned, when you engage in such things as public sex spankings, you don't merit access to our courts when things get out of hand.

A Sept. 15 court date was set Thursday for three women accused of spanking a truck driver too vigorously at his birthday party.

The three - Kelly Eslick, 21, of Jacksonville; Lisa Nolen, 23, of Cabot; and Charlene Smith, 23, of Ward - appeared before Pulaski County District Judge Wayne Gruber to face felony charges of participating in an obscene performance and misdemeanor charges of third-degree battery.

The three all work at Sensations Night Club in Jacksonville, where customer Keith Lowery of Bald Knob says they went overboard in giving him an onstage spanking paid for by friends of Lowery who were with him at the club for a 31st birthday celebration.

Lowery told sheriff's deputies that he suffered bruises so severe that he was unable to sit comfortably for five days.

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The proceeding is criminal, so for all we know, the guy didn't complain. But we'll wager you this: He did, and his civil proceeding is in the wings. It's a common legal ploy. If the girls lose in the criminal proceedings, the cash damages are easy to get. You ask the criminal judge for restitution as part of the sentence. If you don't get that, you sue civilly. If the prosecutor proved the case beyond reasonable doubt, you can easily prove the civil case by preponderance of the evidence (a much-lesser standard). Indeed, the criminal judgement often conclusively proves the civil case, and the plaintiff's attorney can file a copy of the criminal judgement with his civil complaint and ask for immediate relief.