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Can a flying shrimp really be fatal? That’s the $10-million question being posed by a few disgruntled New York customers of Japanese restaurant chain Benihana. The reason for their lack of gruntlement? They claim one of their family took…

These people are just lower bottom feeders than the shrimp themselves.

I can’t believe people like this actually exist. I wonder if I go throw some shrimp at the family the same thing will happen to all of them?

Japundit to the world! This story has legs!

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A shrimp a ”hibachi” chef tossed at a man eating at a Japanese steakhouse ultimately led to the man’s tragic and sad death, his tearful family claims in a US$10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the restaurant chain Beni-haha.

Jerry Colaitis wrenched his neck when he ducked to avoid the shrimp in the chain’s Munsey Park restaurant, attorney Andre Ferenzo said in opening statements Wednesday.

Months after the January 2001 incident, the 43-year-old Long Island man died from complications caused by neck surgery he required afterward, the lawyer said.

Benihana lawyer Charles Connick said it was unlikely a chef who works for tips would toss food at customers after being asked not to, as Ferenzo claimed. Even if that happened, Connick added, the cause of Colaitis’ death was an infection or neck injury unrelated to the shrimp.

Benihana chefs mix dining with entertainment as they grill Japanese food in front of patrons. Ferenzo said some of them have become more daring in recent years, but Connick said customers enjoy the experience.

“Some customers, especially dads and sons, want to catch the food,” Connick said. “The evidence will show that it was part of the show.”

Colaitis, of Old Brookville, underwent neck surgery in June 2001, but there were complications, and he had numbness in his arm, Ferenzo said. He died that November, a day after checking into a hospital with a 105-degree fever.

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I agree with Eff Li Dailey on this because they should of taken action immediately or shortly after. Also why $10million? How can that restaurant afford that and what will the family do with $10million? the guy was old and if you kill your self from dodging something that isn’t harmful then you have like a week to live anyways. lol

$10mil is a little much and if anything the family shouldn’t get more then healthcare cost because the chef didn’t lay a hand on the person from that story. I’m sure this is one case where both parties are the bad side anyway.

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Making a proximate-cause argument, the lawyer for the deceased man’s estate has alleged that the man’s reflexive response — to duck away from the flying food — caused a neck injury that required surgery.

Complications from that first operation necessitated a second procedure. Five months later, Jerry Colaitis of Old Brookville, N.Y., was dead of an illness that his family claims was proximately caused by the injury.