Don’t Belch at the Force and Firkin

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I love me a great English Pub. But if you drink and then belch at the Force and Firkin at Cheshunt, you may be in for a beating.

From Hen News here:

Father and son are jailed for ‘burp’ assault

A FATHER and son from Cheshunt who battered a drinker unconscious in a pub after he told one of them off for burping have both been locked up for two years.

Michael Swinburne, 49, and his son Eddie Swinburne, 19, both of Hanbury Close, rounded on 24-year-old Terry Vince when he asked the dad to “show some manners”.

Mr Vince, of Cheshunt, was punched and kicked before being dragged from the Force and Firkin pub in Turners Hill, Cheshunt, and left lying in a pool of blood in a nearby alleyway.

He began chatting to the four men but moments later the bar manager saw Mr Vince being held up against the wall.

Prosecutor Laura Blackband said: “Michael Swinburne had burped and Terry Vince said he ought to show some manners.

“Mr Vince says he was struck, he was punched and he was taken to the floor and repeatedly punched and kicked. However his recollection is not very good.”

Mr Vince was then taken outside and again attacked.