The grease truck driver who stabbed Mark Sanchez is suing the ex-Jets quarterback, saying he was left permanently disfigured by the alleged attack.
Perry Tole, 69, filed a lawsuit against Sanchez, 38, and his employer, Fox Sports, for punitive and compensatory of damages following the alleged violent attack in an Indianapolis alleyway at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
The lawsuit alleges that Sanchez, who was in Indiana to report on Sunday’s game between the Colts and the Raiders, “appeared intoxicated” when he “instigated an altercation” with Tole, who was parking in a loading bay in the alleyway while collecting grease from nearby businesses.
Tole suffered “significant injuries to his head, jaw and neck” in the ensuing fight, which allegedly saw the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Sanchez bodyslam Tole to the ground, the lawsuit states.
Authorities say Sanchez turned Tole’s own knife on him, stabbing the grease truck driver through the cheek and cutting his tongue.
The lawsuit also alleges Sanchez’s employer “knew or should have known” about Sanchez’s “unfitness as an employee, propensity for drinking and/or harmful conduct.”
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