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Theater District club says pushy New Yorker forced waitress to pour scotch down his throat

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what to do about an Oct. 17 incident at Bijou on Stuart Street, in which detectives watched a waitress at a VIP table tip a one-liter bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label into a patron's mouth as he gulped down the amber liquid.

Bijou attorney Karen Simao acknowledged that's what happened at a board hearing this morning.

But she pleaded for mercy on her client's behalf, saying "that is absolutely not a practice at Bijou" - since Boston regulations forbid customers at bottle-service tables from ever touching the bottles or drinking directly from them.

Simao said that what happened was that the customer in question was from New York, where "bottle service is run differently" and that he grew more and more adamant that the waitress assigned to his table pour the scotch right into his maw and that the waitress finally did so in an attempt to "calm down the patron."

Board Chairwoman Christine Pulgini, however, called that action "juvenile and unprofessional" and said she doubted that a place like Bijou wouldn't have enough security on hand to quickly quell the insistent New Yorker.

Simao acknowledged the waitress could have handled the situation differently and that she was issued a warning and briefly suspended for the incident.

In addition to breaching the ban on pouring alcohol into a customer's mouth, detectives also cited Bijou for violating a state ban on letting a customer have more than two drinks at once, based on the number of shots they saw him gulp down.

Simao argued that this was one area in which the waitress maintained control - that the amount of liquid the guy gulped was not more than the equivalent of two shot glasses of the stuff.

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Good Weld reference.

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I was reading The Onion

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where every hack, politician has an alcoholic uncle so we get heavy handed alcohol laws.

- the original sobo yuppie.

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Just like Cancun.

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And I say that as a proud Bostonian living in NY. But seriously, who was hurt by this?

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I tell them to move back if you think Boston is lagging.

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...call up all your friends and convince them to move to Boston...the more outsiders (read: not from New England) the better chance we have at becoming a world class city.

- the original SoBo Yuppie

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"pushy New Yorker"

What? No way.

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Boston is a joke when it comes to the "regulations on nightlife". These so called politicians want to make this a world class city and forget that nightlife is a huge factor in doing so. Ever been to Miami, New York, Las Vegas?

Boston is a little league team trying to play ball with the big boys it's a shame!

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Boston isn't trying to compete with these cities when it comes to nightlife. That's a good or bad thing, depending on your point of view, but don't pretend Boston even wants to have the same sort of nightlife.

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A world class city needs world class nightlife! Sgt. Mulvey would have a heart attack working in a world class city!

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Come nightfall, send the police home, run the trains all night and let me sit in a bar, smoke and drink straight from the bottle in peace.

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