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A 30-year-old Queens woman is the second person in as many months to sue Western-themed tourist trap Johnny Utah's, claiming that the midtown bar's mechanical bull caused her serious injuries. According to court papers obtained by the Post, Rachel Love has "been rendered unable to perform [her] normal activities" since her fateful encounter with the bull. Like screenwriter Aaron Schnore's September lawsuit, Love blames the bull operator for letting her get bucked while inebriated, and also causing "the actions of the mechanical bull to become more violent in an effort to throw the plaintiff off said bull." How many drunkards have to get vaguely hurt before mechanical bull operators stop trying to throw riders off?

Local screenwriter Aaron Schnore is suing midtown tourist trap Johnny Utah's after a May 7th ride on the tavern's mechanical bull (pictured) left him with "serious" injuries (beyond his shattered dignity). Lawyers say the operator of the bull should not have allowed an inebriated Schnore on the bull in the first place, and they also accuse him of making the bull buck too hard. Attorney Lawrence Saftler tells the Daily News, "[The operator] pumped it up until he could throw him. That to us is an assault and battery." To others, that's called a mechanical bull. Schnore is seeking an unspecified sum, but no amount of money will change the fact that now the whole world knows he hangs out at Johnny Utah's.

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