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To: TLindt who wrote (1280)	8/5/1999 9:07:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 3689

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To: TLindt who wrote (1280)	8/6/1999 9:04:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3689

Barkeep Fined After Patron Drinks To Death Friday August 6 8:38 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian publican has been fined thousands of dollars after the winner of a drinking competition in his bar died of alcohol poisoning, court officials said Friday. Allan Taylor, a 33-year-old computer technician, died after drinking 34 glasses of beer, four bourbons and 17 tequilas in 100 minutes in a Sydney bar in 1997. The New South Wales Licensing Court heard that Taylor died within hours of the competition. A post-mortem revealed a level of 0.353 grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, compared to the legal limit for driving of 0.05. The court Thursday fined Brian Whelan of the Strathfield Hotel A$20,000 (US$13,100) because he failed to exercise his License in the public interest when his staff failed to stop Taylor drinking. Whelan told the court he was not at the hotel at the time of the competition. ''The repeated sales of trays of tequila should have...alerted staff to the fact that something may have been wrong,'' said licensing magistrate Denis Collins. ''The sale of that quantity of tequila must have caused suspicion by bar staff and that suspicion should have been acted upon,'' said Collins. The court heard that drinkers in the competition were set a 100-minute limit to consume as much alcohol as possible, with one point for a beer, three for wine and eight for spirits. Taylor won the competition by 44 points. The drinking competition called ''Feral Friday'' had been held on three previous occasions and involved two teams of six or seven drinkers from two companies.