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September 18, 2008 2:52 PM
by Rob Taylor
CANBERRA - An Australian pub offering free drinks to women who remove their underwear and display it to patrons and staff will be investigated by alcohol licencing regulators, authorities said on Thursday.
The Saint Hotel in Melbourne has promised a "No Undie Sundie" event over the coming weekend, where woman who remove their underwear and hang it above the bar will receive $50 ($39) worth of free drinks.
Women who flash their bras and underwear to staff also get free drinks, the pub said, in a promotion that women's protection groups said was "almost an invitation to sexual assault".
"On the face of it, it looks like an inappropriate liquor
promotion and we will be investigating with a view to banning
it," Liquor Licensing Victoria director Sue Maclellan told the
Herald Sun newspaper.
On its website the Saint describes itself as "the home of
Melbourne's fashionable set," but pub attracted the ire of
regulators in June after hiring a dwarf to pour free liquor
down patrons' throats.
Posters for the no undies day event showed singer Britney
Spears partially exposed and exiting a car in a scene local
Mayor Janet Cribbes said was "bordering on being pornographic."
The pub's managers had gone to ground on Thursday and were
not answering phone calls.
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