Bouncer Loses Eye after High Heel Flies at Martini Bar

A bouncer at a bar in Oak Forest lost his eyeball when a female patron threw her high-heeled shoe at him.

The woman began arguing with the employee at Linger Martini Bar, 4142 W. 167th St., after a man she was with was asked to leave. He’d fallen asleep at the bar, Sun-Times Media reports.

Tenisha Netter, 38, of Calumet City, accosted the guard outside the bar, according to police reports, and heaved a high heel at his face. The heel hit him in the eye. Staff ordered the bar closed while awaiting police.

The security guard was taken to South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, where he was diagnosed with a serious eye injury. He was then transferred to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he underwent emergency surgery. Doctors were unable to save his eye.

It was not the guard’s first run-in with Netter, he told police. She was charged with aggravated battery.