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| Assclowns on Parade: Amputee soldier denied access to club |
| 2004-01-08 |
| EFL Abby Jackson, wife of Spc. Robert "B.J." Jackson, 22, who lost his legs in an explosion last August while serving with the Iowa Army National Guard in Iraq, says her husband was denied access to an upscale nightclub in Clive on Friday night because his shoes weren’t fancy enough. "Both of us told (an employee) that those were the only shoes he can wear with his prosthetic legs," Abby Jackson said Saturday. "I even told them he lost them in Iraq." The night out with friends was one of the couple’s first since Jackson began learning to walk again in early November. "I was upset," Jackson said Saturday from an airport on his way back to San Antonio where he’s receiving medical treatment. "We all thought they were kidding," said Abby Jackson. "He had his cane with him and everything. I don’t even think he knew how to react to it. . . . He was really upset." I’m speechless. |
| Posted by:Dragon Fly |
| #6 The name of the club is enough. Reasonable folks will avoid this place, like a mad cow butcher block. I'm with badanov - public ridicule and humiliation is better than a lawsuit. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-1-8 8:09:44 PM |
| #5 Iowa? Any response from the nine dwarfs? Crickets... |
| Posted by: john 2004-1-8 1:56:52 PM |
| #4 hope he sues the ass off the night club,people who behave like that to war heros should be locked up, (in Gauntanimo bay). |
| Posted by: J Shep 2004-1-8 12:08:00 PM |
| #3 I would've immediately started swinging the cane with the intention of making solid contact with the skull of the "employee". |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-8 9:56:54 AM |
| #2 Why give lawyers a chance to further pull this country into the sewers with them? The name of the club is enough. Reasonable folks will avoid this place, like a mad cow butcher block. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-1-8 7:59:30 AM |
| #1 Mr.&Mrs.Jackson please sue the s*&t out of these as^%$les. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-1-8 6:57:03 AM |