Beer Drinkers Sue Arena

The brew-haha began when Gwen Gibbs posted a video on YouTube showing the two cups side by side holding the same amount of liquid.  Gibbs told the Idaho Statesman that she uploaded the video after seeing her boyfriend pour a large beer into a smaller cup.

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Idaho Steelheads hockey team/CenturyLink Arena president Eric Trapp posted a message on the hockey team’s Facebook page saying the company that the company would purchase new, 24-ounce cups for the large beers for the rest of the season.

Now a group of hockey fans are suing CenturyLink Arena over the size snafu.  Four fans – Brady Peck, Michele Bonds and William & Brittany Graham – filed a lawsuit in Boise’s 4^th District Court against Block 22 LCC, the company behind CenturyLink Arena.  The fans are seeking $10,000 in damages.

“While different shapes, both cup sizes hold substantially the same amount of liquid and are not large versus small in actual capacity,” attorney Wyatt Johnson wrote in the lawsuit.  “Defendants knowingly sold each of their beers in a similar manner at each event held at the arena where beer was sold for at least the last five years.”

One of the members of the group suing Century Link Arena, Brady Peck, says he’s attended at least 30 events at CenturyLink Arena and has purchased beer each time.  The other plaintiffs in the lawsuit say they’ve gone to events at the venue during the past five years and have purchased the $7 beers with each visit.

An arena spokesman told Associated Press he hadn’t seen the lawsuit and couldn’t comment at this time.