GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- A local law professor says The B.O.B. likely faces no legal liability following the recent fall there, the second in a month.

Kevin Richard O'Brien, 36, from Wyoming, is in critical condition after falling four stories down a fire escape stairway early Sunday Morning. One month ago, Zachary Bunting of Grand Ledge, 21, was killed in a similar fall.

Professor Curt Benson at Cooley Law School says several aspects make it unlikely the victims would have any success if they were to sue The B.O.B.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— Grand Rapids is getting another tribute to the men behind Meijer Stores.

On May 8, the Michigan Historical Commission approved a marker to honor Hendrik and Fred Meijer, who in 1962 became the first grocers to combine two popular retail models—discount department stores and supermarkets—into a single store on 28th Street, called “Thrifty Acres.”  The Meijers then took their model to Holland and Muskegon. 

Meijer now has nearly 200 stores across the Midwest, including Kalamazoo, Walker, Wyoming, Jenison, Rockford, Plainfield Township, Forest Hills, Lowell, Grandville, Kentwood, Grand Haven and Greenville, where Hendrik Meijer opened his very first store in the 1930s.

The new historical marker will be added to more than 1,700 green and gold signs found across the state, that chronicle the people, places and events that make Michigan’s heritage unique and unforgettable.  The historical markers are nominated by spons

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - A Wyoming man is the second person in just two months to fall four stories inside a stairwell at the B.O.B. in downtown Grand Rapids.

The victim, Kevin O'Brien, was taken to the hospital in critical condition just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, making him the third person to fall down the open stairwell inside the bar since 2009.

One woman carrying flowers to mark Mother's Day, felt sympathy for O'Brien's family as she walked past The B.O.B.

"It's a very sad day for the mother of the person," said.

Just before 2 a.m., police found 36 year old Kevin O'Brien at the bottom of a stairwell. Witnesses told investigators that O'Brien fell four stories.

"We know it's a bar people can get drunk and they fall down," the woman said.