Jun 19 2008
Fatty Vautin Sued?
“What about security at the Caxton? That bloke was blind. He could hardly talk”.
That’s all it takes apparently. If you mistakenly state that someone is drunk when they are in fact having a seizure you are open to all sorts of law suits. Welcome to Pettyville… population us.
When the Fatman realised his mistake and apologised it was greeted with a luke warm response from the bouncers father, “it’s done now.” and further “but that doesn’t change what’s happened to us and our son.” Fair call you don’t have to accept the apology but surely you don’t have to sue for a descriptive error.
Look, I don’t wish a disability on anyone and I am sure, friends and family may have found the comments upsetting. But we can’t all walk around on eggshells in anticipation of offending anyone. Fatty is in the entertainment game, he uses off the cuff observations and commentary to entertain the masses. Like any entertainer sometimes his antics may miss the mark and alienate a percentage of his audience. But when all is said and done and the horse has bolted, all you can do is apologise for a misunderstanding and he has done that.
Perhaps if the old man is dead set on suing someone he should push his actions towards the producers of the show rather than just the host.
I personally think the family should make an example of Vautin. They were terrible comments and he should be punished accordingly.
I reckon he shouldn’t have said it but your right in that he did say sorry and I trhink it was an honest mistake. its not like he puroposley weht out of his way to do it.