Launching From Great Height

(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

The "bachelor's package" at the Penthouse Club in Port Richmond includes an invitation onstage and doting attention from the dancers.

But for one Montgomery County man, it also came with internal bleeding, according to a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court last week.

Patrick Gallagher of Lansdale claims a dancer slid down a stripper pole and landed on him with such force that his bladder ruptured.

The incident occurred in late November 2010, when Gallagher visited the club on Castor Avenue near Balfour Street with friends to celebrate his impending marriage, said his attorney, Neil T. Murray.

His friends bought him the bachelor's package, and the dancers brought him onstage, directing him to lie prone on his back beneath the pole, Murray said.

One dancer shimmied up the pole, and "from a great height, she launched herself down onto his abdomen," Murray said.

Heh.

Tip: slwlion