The Boston Licensing Board has to decide whether a South Boston bar acted appropriately in the way it dealt with a couple of patrons who decided to do some pushups, then refused to leave early on Sept. 3.

The two upper-body-strength men told an arriving police officer that two bouncers at Clock Tavern, 342 West Broadway, rudely grabbed their barstools and hit one of them in the eye as they manhandled them out of the bar, which was good enough for a citation for the bar to appear before the licensing board to answer a charge of "assault and battery employee on patron."

But the bar's manager said: No, it didn't go down like that.

He said that when the two guys began their floor activities shortly after midnight, a bouncer asked them to stop, and the bartender cut them off. But deciding di

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