The Melbourne Magistrates Court was told that barmaid Emily Craig, 22,  served a drunk customer a shot of Pine-o-Cleen as a joke at a Melbourne nightclub causing him to become violently ill.

The story says that the customer vomited in the street outside the Evolution nightclub in inner city Prahran before an ambulance was called.

Ms Craig’s defence counsel George Balot was cited as telling Magistrate Bill O’Day that the incident happened at 6.15am, on March 4, adding, "I will be putting to you this was a misguided joke at an ungodly hour. It is not a malicious act."