Had we known there was such a thing as a Shake It Like Shakira contest we obviously would have mentioned it before. That’s not the kind of thing you hide. Here’s what we’ve learned: These events, held, apparently at Calico Jack’s Cantina on 42nd Street and Second Avenue in New York City, among other places, require a $35 entry fee but the winner can take home as much as $250. Before you pull our your gypsy skirt and start swiveling in the mirror be warned: This shit is dangerous.
Back in July a young woman from New Jersey named Megan Zacher celebrated her twenty-second birthday (after only one and a half-cocktails or so, she claims) by shaking her ass in Calico Jack’s contest. She climbed up on the bar and was dancing when she fell, resulting in a torn ligament in her knee that required surgery. Now she’s suing the bar for what her lawyer is calling “negligent, reckless and careless” behavior. Look: If you’re the sort of person who wants to enter a Shake It Like Shakira contest you’d better at least pretend you were 800 sheets to the wind before you agreed to participate, and if you were that drunk there’s no way it’s the bar’s fault you fell. Megan, are you getting our message? No matter how much you get in the shakedown, it’s not worth as much as what you lose reminding the world you paid $35 bucks to imitate a mediocre pop star’s moves on the bar at Calico Jack’s. Get out now.
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