Even I'm smart enough to never do such a stupid trick.
Posted on 06/03/2007 8:41:18 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
An actor whose genitals were injured by a mousetrap is suing Jackass star Johnny Knoxville and a radio talk-show for $12.6 million.
Perry Caravello alleges that Knoxville, program host Jimmy Kimmel and radio personality Adam Corolla, promised him $12 million for promotion of a movie if he carried out a stunt that inolved putting his genitals in a mousetrap.
The stunt was intended as a promotion for the DVD release of Windy City Heat, in which Carolla, Caravello and Kimmel all appeared.
But the stunt went wrong and Caravello "was severely injured when the trap literally went on his manhood", according to papers filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
It would seem to be a case of life imitating art, according to the Hollywood Reporter's description of the movie, which it calls an "elaborate hoax [and] an act of cruelty almost unparalleled in TV comedy annals."
"Cameras both hidden and exposed capture the fun and pain when Caravello is inexplicably cast as the star of a supposed film called Windy City Heat, in which he portrays a character named Stone Fury, a hard-boiled Chicago 'sports private eye.'
"It's all just a complete goof, of course. But the real Caravello doesn't know that," said the paper in its October 2003 review of the telemovie.
Caravello is also claiming $600,000 for humiliation after the stunt-gone-wrong was distributed on the internet.
“Before this stunt, only my immediate family knew I was a complete moron. After the stunt, millions of people knew I was a complete moron. So, I had no choice! I had to sue them! Because I want the whole country to know that I am a complete moron!”
Even I'm smart enough to never do such a stupid trick.
God how I miss the plate spinners on Ed Sullivan.
Aw, nuts! This is silly!
Lawrence Welk
But the stunt went wrong and Caravello “was severely injured when the trap literally went on his manhood”, according to papers filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
You! Out of the gene-pool!
LOL (really)! I never could get in to Larry. I’m still laughing as I type.
and a one , and a two and a three
my dad went from the Opry to that on Sat afternoons in the 60s
Could someone explain how this stunt could possibly "go right" considering it was always designed to clamp on his reproductive anatomy?
Caravello is also claiming $600,000 for humiliation after the stunt-gone-wrong was distributed on the internet.
He knew what the cameras were there for. "Cameras both hidden and exposed capture the fun and pain..."
Maybe John Edwards will drop out of the race to take this case.
He can even use that child’s voice that he used in that other trial.
Nuts!
I had to check if this was from scrappleface. Nope hahahahaha...that WAS( past tense) ballsy.
My nuts are harder than your!.....
So basically, Caravello is ticked off that he didn't get his promotion money. His nads have nothing to do with it, apparently.
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