This story was just so odd that I had to share it. The following comes from the good folks over at Yahoo:
An actor is suing “Jackass” star Johnny Knoxville, TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and radio personality Adam Carolla, claiming he was never paid $10 million for doing a below-the-belt stunt that left him severely injured.
Perry Caravello claims Kimmel never paid him for his work in the 2003 TV movie “Windy City Heat.” According to the suit, Knoxville also promised to pay him to promote the DVD release of the film on Carolla’s show last fall if he agreed to place his genitals in a mousetrap.
“Plaintiff agreed to do so, and, much to his emotional tranquility and to his physical harm, was severely injured when the trap literally went on his manhood,” the suit contended. Caravello also was humiliated when clips of the incident, which he says were filmed without his permission, made it to the Internet, his suit claims.
The suit claims that Caravello signed a contract with Dakota North Entertainment Inc., a company that Kimmel heads. But Kimmel, Knoxville and others never paid Caravello or gave him an accounting of profits and royalties from DVD sales of “Windy City Heat,” the suit claims. It seeks a total of $10.5 million in damages.
My first thought was “How stupid do you have to be to put your own balls in a mouse trap? But then i stopped and realized that I MYSELF would probably be that stupid if I thought it would net me enough money.
The story never really reveals if Johnny Knoxville or Kimmel’s company specifically offered to pay the guy “X” amount of dollars for doing the stunt… or if the $10 million is just a number that the guy came up with himself that he feels he is owed. Either way, I laughed pretty hard when I read it.
