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Mar 8, 2006 8:40 pm US/Eastern

Man Suing Promoters Of Jimmy Buffett Concert

by Anne-Marie Green
CAMDEN (CBS 3) ― A court fight is taking place after a motorcyclist is seriously injured by a drunk driver.

The victim is suing the promoters of a Jimmy Buffett concert and the owners of a parking lot claiming they are partly to blame for his ordeal.

In June of 2004, the Tweeter Center in Camden was parrothead paradise with lots of drinking and partying. One woman got the behind the wheel and struck a man and the victim says the woman is not the only one responsible for his pain.

"A broken pelvis in half, a plate in three-inch for my spine, a broken collar bone," said victim, Karl Pulliam.

They were just some the injuries Pulliam received after a slamming into a car along West River Drive while riding his motorcycle.

The drunk driver behind the wheel had spent the day partying with parrot heads outside the Tweeter Center before a Jimmy Buffett concert.

"She apologized. I was not mad at her," said Pulliam.

He is mad at the concert promoter's, Electric Factory and Clear Channel, as well as the company that owns the parking lot.

"People were pretty much getting wasted away in Margaritaville," said Pulliam's attorney, Jeffrey Reiff.

Parrotheads are known for their tailgating, but Pulliam's lawyer says even though the Tweeter Center prohibits drinking in the parking lot, he said organizers did nothing to stop it and he argues they even promoted the hard core hoopla by opening the parking lots hours early.

"From three in the afternoon to nine at night, with marked security guards walking around and port-o-potties set up, you are asking for trouble," said Reiff.

Not to mention, drinking in a public parking lot is against the law in Camden County, he says security guards basically ignored it.

"If it had happened at a restaurant or at my house, we would be held liable," said Reiff.

Both Clear Channel and Electric Factory did not have a comment on the lawsuit.

As for Karl, he suffered kidney damage in the accident and undergoes dialysis and is hoping for a kidney transplant.

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