Todd
Lyons, a carnival worker caught in Mississippi, was arrested and hauled back to
Maine, where he pleaded not guilty for biting off the nose of a guy on a
Lewiston dance floor a couple of years ago.
Police say that Todd Lyons came up to Ryan Zinninger in November
2011,while Zinninger was dancing, apparently by himself, and bit the tip of his
nose clean off. The bartender said the
men had an earlier argument, but it was over and appeared to be a random act.
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| Lyons: Accused Carnie Nose Biter |
According
to the Sun Journal: A police report in court records said Zinninger was dancing with some
people on the dance floor when a stranger “leaned into him and bit him on the
face.” The stranger was later identified as Lyons.
Zinninger has sued both Lyons
(good luck collecting money from an itinerant carnival worker) and the bar,
which was owned by a dissolved corporation at the time. The bar is accused of serving alcohol illegally to an obviously intoxicated man (Lyons), when it should have cut him
off, and of not properly controlling the patrons.
That’s pretty messed up, if you’re
Zinninger. You’re dancing and a guy
comes up and bites your nose off. It
required 12 stitches, and there’s no report, but hopefully, they were able to
get it back on and he’s not forced to wear some sort of prosthetic nose the
rest of his life. It’s this sort of situation that makes you wonder why more
people in this country don’t utilize head butts when some aggressive person you
don’t know leans in way too close to you.
The British and Australians are known to utilize head butts. Maybe they have much more experience with
nose biters. Because, in close quarters
like this, that’s all the defense you have against carnie attacks like this.
We reported a little while ago
about the Tulsa police operating a sting on carine workers illegally doling out
Hello Kitty dolls for bribes, not winning the game. (prior post here) Perhaps Tulsa police were not over-reacting
and were on to something. Perhaps this
was like former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s zero-tolerance crime deterrence
policies where you cut down on subway loitering and panhandling to let
criminals know there’s no tolerance.
Tulsa was letting carnies know there was a zero-tolerance policy in
their town for carnies so no one got their nose bitten off.
Really, the lesson here is that
if some belligernat drunk dude in a bar leans in way too fast while you’re
dancing, properly utilize a head butt. (instructions here)
It’s a lot easier to apologize
for that than to get your nose re-attached.
Full story and photo credit: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn/2013/11/13/man-denies-charge-stemming-nose-biting-incident/1451224
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