BY MIKEY MIGO
I enjoyed Jackass in really small doses. Some people REALLY liked it. It’s all subjective and another entertainment option. When it first came out I liked it. I saw the first movie at the theatre and caught the second on Comedy Central a few years ago. I just outgrew it. I think it was the spin offs, but after awhile I just started to get annoyed with those guys. Knoxville and Pontius are cool, Steve-O has his moments, and for me that’s about it. I did NOT like anyone else involved. To me they were rich upper-middle-class kids doing stupid shit on camera. It just wasn’t for me. They weren’t stunt men, but rather stunt boys. Last week Ryan Dunn and his passenger died when he got into a car crash after driving over a reportedly 130 miles per hour drunk. The way the internet and media has handled his death reminds me a lot of the deaths of certain professional wrestlers. Being a professional wrestling fan I’ve had the displeasure of attempting to rationalize all the deaths that have occurred in the past ten or so years. Overdoses, murders, suicides, and toll of the life style are the culprits. The toll on the body is often to do with the drugs, so depending on how you look at it overdose is the most common occurrence. It sucks having to try to defend to those who don’t share the same passion for wrestling as you. Let’s be realistic here, outside of Chris Benoit, no one’s death put anyone else in danger or killed anyone else. Ryan Dunn’s drunk driving killed not only himself but his passenger. Yeah, “it was the passenger’s choice to get in the car” but it doesn’t change anything. Thankfully it didn’t happen, but there’s that big “what if” in the situation that Dunn defenders are blatantly avoiding… what if his car would have hit another car, or caused an accident, or if the car hit a person? He made his living by taking chances with stunts and silliness on Jackass. Ebert chimed in on twitter with “Friends don’t let Jackasses drink and drive”. People were PISSED. I read in some places they were telling you to write his editor to have him fired over it. I think Bam even chimed in on his statement with some babbling nonsense insult. Yep, his friend is gone. That REALLY sucks and I hope he get through it but you should keep quiet about people making statements against drinking and driving. The second he got behind the wheel in that condition he was taking chances with not only his life but anyone else who was on the roads at that time. Those people would have had families and friends to mourn them too. Again, it’s sad for everyone involved. It’s just sick that these ignorant people standing up for anyone saying anything against Dunn are out there. I just can’t understand some peoples perspectives. Stupid.
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