Thread: S.C. Bartender's Toxic Peach Martini Sends Two to Hospital

This is one very good reason immigrants should be able to speak English before coming to America, and being hired for jobs here. What do you want to bet this person is an illegal alien? this business should be sued by these 2 people who could have easily lost their lives because of this terrible mistake!
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S.C. Bartender's Toxic Peach Martini Sends Two to Hospital
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A woman and her sister had to go
hospital after a bartender mistakenly dipped their martini
glasses in a caustic substance used to clean the restaurant's
fryer.
The bartender ran out of sugar Saturday night at Doc's
Grille downtown and asked a dishwasher that speaks mainly
Spanish for more sugar. The employee gave the bartender a
containing a white substance that looked like sugar, but it
was the cleaner instead, restaurant owner Doug Goolsby said.
"I hate that anybody gets hospitalized at your place of
business. Mistakes happen, and it's regrettable," said
Goolsby, who added the business has moved the cleaner to
basement.
Rita Hammond, 42, of Columbia, remained at Palmetto Health
Richland on Monday, where the hospital listed her in good
condition.
Her sister, Sandy Couillard, 43, of Columbia, was discharged
from the hospital Sunday.
Couillard said her sister spit up blood after her tongue
started began to peel after taking a sip of her second peach
martini.
"I woke up this morning with blood on my pillow," Couillard
said Monday. "I have no taste at all."



Goolsby said the bartender, who he wouldn't identify, started
crying and had to go home after she was told what happened.
Columbia police and state health officials continue to
investigate the incident, although they say it appears to be
an accident.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202927,00.html

oopsie! accidents happen!!!

NITTY
this is an article that, imo, should be copied and sent to every local/state/fed official!

ENGLISH mandatory! Not spanish, Yiddish, Italian............ENGLISH

It doesn't even matter if the bartender was ILLEGAL for these purposes, it matters how the hell he got a job without a rudimentary knowledge of English in an English speaking country.

Go try that one in France!!

Hey, nobody ever said that dissolving the US was going to be painless.

I might go so far as to say, was this really an accident? Not by the bartender, I think she was appalled by what happened. Why would that spanish speaking worker think the bartender was asking for a cleansing agent? I wonder how many "accidents" like this happen every day that doesn't make the headlines? Yea your right, this has fried my brain,



I AM TURNING INTO A CONSPIRACY THEROIST!

Originally Posted by nittygritty

I might go so far as to say, was this really an accident? Not by the bartender, I think she was appalled by what happened. Why would that spanish speaking worker think the bartender was asking for a cleansing agent? I wonder how many "accidents" like this happen every day that doesn't make the headlines? Yea your right, this has fried my brain,



I AM TURNING INTO A CONSPIRACY THEROIST!

CORRECTION
I misread and thought "bartender."

YES, the kitchen worker is the non-English speaker.

And, NITTY, think that these things aren't happening all over? The spitting in the food is well known. Other stuff not to mention the health hazards--- which is why I haven't eaten in any establishment that has spanish workers. I stopped that about a year ago. I have been told too many nasty stories by my Latin friends who've warned me to be careful.

Wonder if there was a spanish translation on that bag of "sugar", everything else has in this country nowadays.....

I'm guessing there wasn't a label on the cleaner or the bartender didn't bother to look at it.

I hope those two ladies get well soon and put that bar out of business.

Maybe, I am just a sugar freak, I don't know,(am trying to break that habit)seems to me any kitchen worker even if he is mostly spanish speaking should know what sugar means even in English right? I feel bad for that bartender, ultimately it is her fault, bet she might be a little more cautious about who she works with next time maybe, I would. This should make everyone more cautious about working with spanish speaking or any other language not just the spanish, lots of jobs out there that would have the tendency to be dangerous if the communication is not adequate to prevent "accidents". After reading all that I have read here, I am not as prone to eating out as I use to be either. I will do my drinking at home to now, thank you. :P

Nitty

Your right. Sugar and cleaners are not even supposed be stored in the same room or location. They must be kept separate, for the very reason the article was written.

I'm eating out a lot less too. Also, many of our Mexican food restaurants are not doing very good lately.

Dixie