So this past weekend my cousins and I were at a bar for drinks after a family get together. While at this bar, they had tables and chairs outside and patrons of the bar were sitting there with drinks. The waitress told my cousins and myself that becuase I was standing up on the sidewalk and not sitting on the chair (right beside me) that I was cut off and could not drink anymore. Mind you, this was my first drink and i only had two sips at that point.
When questioned why she said there was a PA law that states you have to be seated if you are at an outside table at a bar. I could not find any such law. Secondly, she began to argue with my cousin when he asked her about it and was yelling at him. None of this phased us, but he looked at the other person at the table and said "Man, what a bi**h." At no time did he ever yell or argue loudly with the waitress. However, at that point a bouncer who had been behind us grabbed his arm and told him he was finished and cut off. My cousin stated that he was sitting there drinking his beer as he was told he had to do and he would not leave until he finished the beer he had purchased (also his first one).
The bouncer then proceeded to grab him again until he took the beer, threw it away, and then phsically tried to get my cousin out of his seat. My cousin threw the chair he was sitting in and it broke in the street (plastic chair) and started to walk away to leave the establishement. The bouncer then grabbed him and pinned him to the ground, causing physical harm to him. The police then came and he was cited for disorderly conduct.
Ok - here are my questions:
1) Is there a law that even states this in PA? I am unfamiliar with such a law and could not find one. If so, citations to the law please
2) Only police are legally able to restrain someone, all others would be deprivation of liberty and false imprisonment, correct?
3) No property is worth the phyiscal harm to a person, could he sue the establishment for the physical harm, battery, and false imprisonment?
Any and all responses are requested.
Thanks.
When questioned why she said there was a PA law that states you have to be seated if you are at an outside table at a bar. I could not find any such law. Secondly, she began to argue with my cousin when he asked her about it and was yelling at him. None of this phased us, but he looked at the other person at the table and said "Man, what a bi**h." At no time did he ever yell or argue loudly with the waitress. However, at that point a bouncer who had been behind us grabbed his arm and told him he was finished and cut off. My cousin stated that he was sitting there drinking his beer as he was told he had to do and he would not leave until he finished the beer he had purchased (also his first one).
The bouncer then proceeded to grab him again until he took the beer, threw it away, and then phsically tried to get my cousin out of his seat. My cousin threw the chair he was sitting in and it broke in the street (plastic chair) and started to walk away to leave the establishement. The bouncer then grabbed him and pinned him to the ground, causing physical harm to him. The police then came and he was cited for disorderly conduct.
Ok - here are my questions:
1) Is there a law that even states this in PA? I am unfamiliar with such a law and could not find one. If so, citations to the law please
2) Only police are legally able to restrain someone, all others would be deprivation of liberty and false imprisonment, correct?
3) No property is worth the phyiscal harm to a person, could he sue the establishment for the physical harm, battery, and false imprisonment?
Any and all responses are requested.
Thanks.