Teen Burned Trying To Re-create 'Jackass' Stunt

Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | November 11, 2002

[steve-b]

[Conservative til I die]

My friends and I certainly did some stupid things, but we knew you really couldn't run a saw across someone's head, for instance. Are kids these days really so dumb?

Sadly, some of the conservatives on FR believe that kids are this dumb and need to have their hands held by the TV shows out there to be told that setting yourself on fire or letting yourself be hit by a car (another funny Jackass-attempt referenced in the article) is not a good idea. They actually put forth a real liberal idea about social responsibility and all that, for the children.

[Conservative til I die]

Rutherford B Hayes was a handsome man.

[AfghanAirShow]

Just think how many idiots are getting removed from the gene pool.

Yep... Jackass is like chlorine for the gene pool.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Bill Hicks died of cancer.

If you have Limewire, search for an mp3 of his "I have a confession to make."

[American Soldier]

Maybe I got screwed living in a yuppy moderate-liberal area. To even have the option of playing with a hardball-sized baseball, I had to wait until I was 10 years old - and then I had to go to the next town and they used those soft hardballs (the ones that are MLB size and weight but a little cushy). Otherwise hardball didn't come until you were 12 or 13. Ridiculous system.

Oh yeah and our league forced you to play t-ball until you were 7 to 9 years old!!! Disgusting. I'm thankful that I didn't realize how stupid and cowardly I looked doing it at the time.

My son will be going to the hardball batting cages early and often though, I assure you. If I couldn't be a professional ballplayer, the least I can do is force my own kid into my dream regardless of his own interests and live vicariously through him.

(Just kidding).

(Sorta).

[L.N. Smithee]

I wasn't aware Hicks believed in God. His stuff was even coarser than Bill Maher's.

[I still care]

There is no way I would have let my son go see this movie, even at 13. And MTV rarely goes on in my house, except in a "let's peek at what stupid people watch" kind of way. My kids saw about 5 minutes of a jackass show last year. They both thought it too stupid to spend more time on it.

[Xenalyte]

How did Bill Hicks Die?

Pancreatic cancer at 34. He's God's comic now.

[Xenalyte]

I wasn't aware Hicks believed in God. His stuff was even coarser than Bill Maher's.

Bill was indeed devout, in an underground sort of way. He was granted an understanding that is denied most of us, and he used it to flicker just a bit of light on "the demons who have been set loose on the earth to lower our standards."

We shall never see his like again. Damn shame. We could use a prophet.