Bartender convicted of manslaughter after customer takes 56 shots, dies

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A French bartender was sentenced on Wednesday after being convicted of manslaughter over the death of a customer he served 56 shots to during a drinking contest last October.

Renaud Prudhomme, 56, broke the drinking record at the bar Starter in Clermont-Ferrand, Agence France-Presse reports. He was served by bartender Gilles Crepin, 47, who said during a hearing that he had made a mistake by tallying how many shots Prudhomme was drinking on a board, encouraging him to continue. Prudhomme was severely inebriated when he went home, and he died in the hospital the next day.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.