LA BARE SUED: NON-TIPPER DIED AFTER TACKLE BY TICKED-OFF MALE STRIPPER

Employees dragged the unconscious man down the La Bare club hall and dumped him out the back door

If it weren’t for the poor man’s death, this story would be funny as hell.

MAURICE MCKNIGHT: FAMILY SUES OVER MALE STRIPPER’S DEADLY STAGE-DIVING ASSAULT ON DAD
By Richard Connelly

Houston Press Hair Balls
June 13, 2012

The family of a man killed by a male stripper enraged his tips had been cut off has sued the club and other companies associated with the incident, asking $4 million in damages.

According to the suit, Kelvin T. Elam Monroe, 37, accompanied three female business associates to a now-closed Austin La Bare in June 2012. Maurice McKnight, a convicted felon, was dancing and encouraging patrons to slip dollar bills in his costume, in the time-honored manner of such things.

Monroe gave the women money to place at the altar of McKnight's manliness, but after a while said there'd be no more.

He then made the mistake of going to the bathroom.

Doing so required walking near the stage, and a seething McKnight.

According to the suit, McKnight jumped from the stage and tackled Monroe from behind, causing the man's head to hit hard upon a table edge.

La Bare employees did what anyone (with no common sense or decency) would do in that situation, if the suit's allegations are true -- they dragged Monroe's body down the hall and out a back door, making his injuries worse. The father of two never came out of a coma and died.

McKnight, 44, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges earlier this year.