Pirates’ Day volunteer sues over lost hearing from powder rifle blast: ‘It’s not a joke’

A pretend pirate-ship captain with hearing damage from a dummy rifle fired next to his head is suing the Johnny Depp look-alike buccaneer who broadsided him at a beloved annual Milford, Conn., event.Walter Micks, 61, was playing his part at Pirate Day when volunteer swashbuckler Tucker Reynolds, 52, “walked over . . .  and shot off a black powder rifle directly next to the plaintiff’s ear,” injuring him with an “excessively explosive sound,” according to the lawsuit filed in Connecticut Superior Court. 

Two years later, Micks still has hearing loss and tinnitus — ringing in the ears.

“Everybody thinks it’s a joke — it’s not a joke,” said Micks’ lawyer, Edmund Collier. 

The dummy weapon “looks like a musket,” he said.

Read the full story at The New York Post: https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/pirates-day-volunteer-sues-over-lost-hearing-from-rifle-blast/