True tales for a Sunday morning!

You can’t make stories like this up. The guy’s name even adds to the bizarre circumstances surrounding this one:

Jerry Colaitis of Upper Brookville, N.Y., injured his neck while attempting to dodge a piece of hot shrimp playfully tossed at him by a table-side hibachi chef, attorney Andre Ferenzo of Roslyn told the jury.

That neck injury necessitated an operation. An apparent infection forced another procedure.

Months later, Colaitis was dead of a blood-borne infection...