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Restaurant drags unconscious women onto the street after serving 16 shots in 40 minutes

A woman is pictured slumped against a tree.

A woman is pictured slumped against a tree. Photo: NSW Liquor and Gaming

Two unconscious women have been dragged onto the street by staff from a Sydney restaurant after being served 16 shots in just 40 minutes.

Gangnam Station Korean restaurant in the CBD was fined $2200 and may face further penalties for “one of the worst breaches of liquor laws in NSW in recent years”, according to NSW Liquor and Gaming.

Three women entered the restaurant at 7.55pm on a Thursday last November and ordered shots of soju, according to police evidence considered by the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority.

Each of the women drank eight shots by about 8.35pm, when two collapsed and fell unconscious.

“Staff and other patrons carried the two women out of the restaurant and dumped them on the footpath. One of the women vomited while being carried,” NSW Liquor and Gaming said on Monday.

“Police patrolling nearby noticed people gathered around the unconscious women and called an ambulance that took them to hospital.”

CCTV stills show a woman slumped back in her chair, and then splayed across the restaurant floor.

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A woman is pictured slumped in her chair after drinking eight shots in 40 minutes, according to NSW Liquor and Gaming. Photo: NSW Liquor and Gaming

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A CCTV still shows her splayed across the restaurant floor. Photo: NSW Liquor and Gaming

Further images show a man dragging the second woman on the footpath, and then her on the ground slumped against a tree.

The Authority imposed a first strike on the restaurant licensee under the state government’s Three Strikes disciplinary scheme.

Three strikes can result in suspended licences or permanent bans from the industry.

The Authority is also considering reducing Gangnam Station’s closing time to midnight, down from 2am.

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A woman is pictured being dragged onto the street. Photo: NSW Liquor and Gaming

It may also require the restaurant to have a security guard trained in the responsible service of alcohol (RSA) on the premises from 8pm each night.

NSW Police fined the restaurant $2200 for permitting intoxication, and Liquor and Gaming NSW is considering taking further action.

Director of Compliance Operations Sean Goodchild said the actions showed a blatant disregard for the health and safety of patrons and RSA requirements.

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case of a venue failing in its obligations to prevent misuse and abuse of alcohol,” he said.

The New Daily has contacted Gangnam Station.

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