Stripper Pole Casualty Results in Lawsuit

A woman is suing Crunch Gym after getting seriously hurt during a stripper pole fitness class. The victim will try to prove that the instructor at the notorious meatmarket gym neglected her during her first attempt at dirty dancing.

According to the Daily News, the amateur dancer, Sue Ann Wee, says she fell from the pole in June at an upper East side Crunch. She was attempting to cozy up to the pole, feet to the ceiling, when she tried to hail down the instructor. "He just left her hanging," said Wee's lawyer. The resulting fall kept Wee out of work for six months, and now she wants what's coming to her.

Wee's lawyer claims the fitness educator ignored the fledgling pole dancer at her time of need, and that Wee was pressured into the upside-down grind. "The problem is not with these types of classes," said her lawyer. "The problem comes when you don't properly supervise the people in those classes." At the very least, Wee's experience should serve as a warning to all those New Yorker trying to look sexy at the gym. Maybe pole dancing should be left to the professionals?

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on January 7, 2010 12:05 PM

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mellow_fellow

LEAVE SUE ANN ALONE!!! >SOB

Clarice City

Probably no coincidence that her name is Sue.

PapiX

I'll never forget my first and last time at a strip club, when a friend of mine offended a stripper by being incredulous that she spoke French (an embarrassing mistake on his part, as she was in fact French-Canadian).

She told him off, but the last laugh was his, as she injured her leg on the pole later that evening.

JRod5417

She assumed the risk. Case dismissed.

vitamin

TRUE THAT!

I am astonished that this woman would sue. I hope she is black listed from any athletic facility or pole community in her area.

Sue Ann Wee... whaaaa, whaaa, whaaa.

bond0007

she is still more than welcome to ride my pole!!

http://www.laserdermatologynyc.com/images/profiles/sue-ann-wee.jpg

books

'the notorious meatmarket gym' blah. thats a bit of a stretch to sound clever.

MO, the old editors John and Jen have gotten a lot better, while these new girls are not so good.

Wza

Probably bad in bed too.

mellow_fellow

So's your mom.

hotstepper

she obviously can't ride the pole.

whitecastlerock

Wee's lawyer claims the fitness educator ignored the fledgling pole dancer at her time of need, and that Wee was pressured into the upside-down grind. That's a wee too much lawyer speak for me.