The Boston Licensing Board could consider Thursday whether Han, 186 Harvard Ave. in Allston, could have foreseen a patron who managed to sneak a pocket knife in would use it to try to carve up a bouncer and one of his own friends after the bouncer demanded he get down from the table he was standing on with a lit cigarette as closing time approached, and if so, if any sanction is warranted.

At a hearing today, a Boston Police officer and detective and a Han manager said the man had been lighting up cigarettes as he sat at a bottle-service table in the VIP section on May 26, and bouncers kept asking him to put them out, but that finally the man got up on the table, stood up and lit up, and when a bouncer demanded he both get down and put out the cigarette shortly, he refused, said he had pa

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