Ever Lose Anything in a Stripclub, Like a Finger?

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02/12/2013 7:08 AM

BY DANA DiFILIPPO

Philadelphia Daily News

Daily News Staff Writer difilid@phillynews.com, 215-854-5934

AT THE 9TH annual Delilah's Diamond G-String Competition, dancers used all kinds of props - swords, footballs, hula hoops, stripper's poles and of course, g-strings - to prove their sex appeal in hopes of winning a $10,000 cash prize.

Sarah Berry used a "half moon aerial apparatus" - but her thumb was amputated while she rehearsed before the July 20, 2011, contest, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Common Pleas Court.

Berry, 35, of Roxborough, claims that Delilah's, the competition's host and creator, failed to ensure that the apparatus was properly designed, built, inspected and tested, and didn't warn users of its dangers, the lawsuit says. She's seeking more than $50,000 in damages for "pain and suffering, disfigurement, humiliation and embarrassment."

The digit disaster happened July 18, 2011, at the club on Spring Garden Street near Front, when a sharp edge on the apparatus - a crescent-shaped metal bar suspended from the ceiling - severed her thumb and she fell to the ground, according to her attorney, James D. Golkow.

"The show must go on, so they had the show without her, because she had amputated her thumb by then," Golkow said.