Exclusive | Shady NYC piercing shop butchered womans tongue, sending her to ER: lawsuit

A shady New York City body piercer repeatedly jabbed a woman’s tongue with a needle, causing “massive bleeding” and severe injuries that landed her in the ER, a new lawsuit alleges.Elsa Weingeist, 25, visited Funky Town on St.Marks Place in the East Village in September to get a tongue stud — lured by a storefront advertising “body piercings.”But the psychiatric office worker and East Village native regretted the decision within minutes — and spent weeks in agony after the doomed piercing session with employee Shamim Islam, according to a lawsuit she filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Oct.

16. The procedure allegedly turned into a bloody nightmare, with Islam stabbing through her tongue at least four times, despite assuring her everything would go smoothly, the suit said.“He just kept poking and poking — it’s like a horror movie,” one of Weingeist’s attorneys, Darius A.Marzec, told The Post.Weingeist told The Post that she had to beg Islam to stop.

“It was mostly just him apologizing that he was messing up and asking to do it again and I could only take it so many times so I told him just he needed to stop after the fourth time,” she recalled.She then demanded to see his piercing license — which he didn’t have, she claimed.She took a closer look at the credentials displayed on the wall and discovered that none of them were for piercings — and none displayed Islam’s name, she said.“Nobody in there had a piercing license,” she said.

“I had confidence in him [before the piercing] because he had told me that he’d been doing this a long time.”Her mouth was allegedly filled with blood when she dialed 911, but Weingeist said she and her friend left the shop before police arrived because emergency responders were taking too long.She sought out medical attention at an urgent care, which told her she had to go to the hospital.In the emergency room, Weingeist said she got bloodwork done and received a tetanus shot.

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