PANAMA CITY — Police are investigating a barroom incident during which a patron was severely injured after allegedly refusing to put on a shirt, according to Panama City Police Department reports.
Officers arrived at the Oasis Lounge, 1103 W. 15th St., Sunday at about 9:50 p.m. to find 62-year-old Dave MacAdams seated on a bar stool and bleeding profusely from a gash over his right eye and a busted lip. MacAdams was covered in blood and also bleeding from one of his ears. When asked what happened, MacAdams told police, “someone beat the s*** out of me,” according to PCPD reports.
Police were initially called to the bar to a report of 41-year-old bartender, Eric Johnson, “having to take down a belligerent customer,” police reported.
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Johnson told police MacAdams had his shirt off and refused to put it back on. Johnson said MacAdams took a swing at him at which time he swung back, hitting MacAdams and knocking him into a pool table, police reported.
“The pool table did all that to him,” Johnson told police.
Several co-workers in the bar corroborated Johnson’s story, police said, but none would provide a sworn statement.
MacAdams told police the bartender had been the aggressor. One eyewitness in the Oasis also told police the events did not happen as Johnson described, and he signed a statement for authorities.
MacAdams was taken to a local hospital for treatment to his injuries.
Police had not filed charges as of Tuesday. An investigation is ongoing.