The Boston Licensing Board last week ordered Grand Canal, 57 Canal St., to shut for five days as punishment for a March 24 incident in which one bouncer was videoed repeatedly kicking a customer in the head and in which a second bouncer inflicted severe enough injuries on three other patrons to warrant sending them to the hospital as well.
The punishment is unusually severe for the board, which typically limits its punishments to one or two days.
Grand Canal, which acknowledged the incident did, in fact, happen at a hearing last week, could appeal the punishment to the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.
The alleged head stomper, Sidney Phillips, 31, of Avon, faces a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; the bar says it fired both him and the second bouncer. Phillips cost the bar another five-day suspension for allegedly punching out another customer in December.
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By anon
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 1:13pm
I suppose they'll be civil suits,too. How does the owner/management afford to deal with this?
Why punish the whole business?
By Boston_res
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 1:47pm
Were other employees out there encouraging the behavior of the bouncers?
How else?
By erik g
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 1:52pm
How do you propose they punish the owner, when they can't fine him directly for making terrible hiring/policy decisions? They could, in theory, yank his license, but that never seems to happen to people with connections to the board, and that would be equally as punitive to the rest of the business anyway.
Well...
By Sock_Puppet
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 3:07pm
You could take Mazzola out in the street and stomp his head against the curb.
Just sayin...
Because it wasn't just one incident
By Sarcastic Sam
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 3:00pm
Not only is the employer responsible for the employees, but in this case there were several complaints of the bouncer assaulting people for no good reason. It wasn't an isolated incident.
$10 says
By SatansFist
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 2:42pm
The owner appeals, and the whole thing is reduced.
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By CraigInDaVille
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 3:05pm
A Galway Fried Chicken Plate is the currency we use for UHub bets around here now...
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It's unfortunate the other
By Cliff
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 3:22pm
It's unfortunate the other employees of the bar will now loose nearly a weeks pay.
Is this considered a furlough?
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 05/13/2013 - 4:36pm
They would probably get fired for claiming unemployment. Of course, they can't simply open their own bar, thanks to the finite licenses. This is the biggest impasse in labor law today.
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