An Australian pub has been slammed for hiring a bare-chested dwarf to walk on the bar dispensing free shots to customers.
The man was recruited by The Saint pub in Melbourne as part of a promotion for the spirit Jagermeister, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Drinkers tipped back their heads as the dwarf strode the length of the bar, pouring free shots of the sticky black aperitif.
A spokeswoman for Liquor Licensing Victoria, a government agency, said it was an example of "serving alcohol irresponsibly".
And local MP, Martin Foley, said doling out booze for free was an "outrageous" and "offensive" example of Australia's growing binge-drinking culture.
A brand manager for Jagermeister, John Howells, promised to investigate the stunt, saying it appeared not to be an example of the "responsible service" of alcohol the company strived to promote.
But drinkers defended the dwarf, saying the promotion was harmless. "It's just a bit of fun," one patron told the Port Phillip Leader. "Why politicise it?"
The stunt, at The Saint pub in the suburb of St Kilda, comes amid warnings by the newly elected Labor government of Kevin Rudd that Australia is increasingly succumbing to a British-style binge drinking epidemic.
But that raised awkward questions about Mr Rudd's own booze-fuelled night out in a Manhattan strip club in 2003, before he was elected prime minister.
"It's a bit rich for a man who got famously stonkered at a lap-dancing club in New York five years ago to be lecturing the rest of us on binge drinking," a newspaper columnist wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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