Urbandale Man Asks Bar Patron to Leave His Wife Alone and Is Attacked With Glass Boot

An Urbandale man suffered a fractured knee and multiple deep cuts after someone attacked him with a glass boot during a fight at a Des Moines bar this weekend, the Des Moines Register reported.

According to police reports published by the Register, Justin Boyd, 29, was with his wife at Hessen Haus, 101 Fourth St., Saturday night. She sat on the bar’s patio while he went to the restroom inside, police said.

While he was gone, a man holding one of the bar’s boot-shaped glasses began to hit on Boyd's wife and asked her to drink out of the boot with him, the paper said.

When asked to leave, the suspect allegedly became belligerent and hit Boyd's elbow with the glass boot. The glass shattered and cut Boyd’s elbow, the newspaper said.

Boyd tackled the suspect, but the suspect’s friends joined the fight. During the brawl, Boyd’s wrist was deeply cut and his knee was injured, the paper said.

The Register said Boyd went to the Veterans Affairs Hospital Sunday, discovered his knee was fractured and went to police.

No suspects have been arrested.