Getting more than a Bite to Eat at Dairy Queen
 

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RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia court jury awarded $800,000 to a woman who said she was bitten on the breast by an employee of a Dairy Queen restaurant.

Brenda K. Chappelear testified that she went into the restaurant in Ashland about 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2001, and asked to use the phone book.

When Ayman Ahmed Hasaballa and another employee at the counter asked her whether she had plans for the evening, she retreated to a booth to get away from them, she said. Hasaballa slid into the booth beside her and pulled her sweater down, scratching her chest, and bit her on the breast.

"I am like Dracula," Chappelear said he told her.

The jury found that the owner of the Dairy Queen franchise, was also liable because Hasaballa had not been fired after he allegedly assaulted a female employee in the restaurant's refrigerator six months earlier.