The Flying Shrimp Verdict Has Landed!

• Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on February 14th, 2006


• Filed in Weird/Wacky/Funny

Hibachi hell, anyone? Here’s a story to send to your company’s risk management department - with a note that restaurants with flying food are off-limits for company outing:

"A Long Island jury took just two hours to reject a widow’s claim that her husband’s death resulted from an injury sustained while dodging a piece of flying shrimp at the Japanese steakhouse Benihana. We posted on the case when it got underway last month.

Here are both the AP story and the New York Times story from this morning on the trial. The Times reported that the plaintiff’s lawyer told the jury on summation yesterday that “a flying piece of hot grilled shrimp” thrown by an irresponsible chef “set into motion an unbroken chain of interrelated events” that led to the plaintiff’s death 10 months later. Benihana’s lawyer reportedly said there was no proof that the neck injury caused plaintiff’s death, and asked the jury, “How in God’s name can this be related to Benihana?”"

Link: Law Blog � The Flying Shrimp Verdict Has Landed!.