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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 09:10 AM
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Boy Falls Out Of Window, Land On His Head During 'Jackass' Stunt - Critical
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"JACKASS Number Two," the wildly raunchy movie featuring stupid-human tricks, opens with a don't-try-this-at-home disclaimer.

Tragically, 11-year-old Wallison Costa didn't heed the warning.

The Northeast Philadelphia boy remained hospitalized in critical condition yesterday, one day after he leaped from a second-story window and fell 10 feet, landing on his head.

The boy got the idea after watching the 2006 movie in which "Jackass" prankster Bam Margera hurls himself through a window to avoid being gored by a horde of angry bulls, police and friends said.

Costa actually tried the trick twice. He successfully jumped out of a front window of his friend's rowhouse on Greeby Street near Castor Avenue Tuesday. Then, he flung himself out a back bedroom window at about 3 p.m. while the friend, 13-year-old Bruno Potoozny, watched with bemused trepidation, according to a man who rents a room in the house.

Costa's feet got tangled in television cable wires strung along the back of the red-brick rowhouse. The boy briefly dangled upside down before falling headfirst toward the concrete below, according to the renter, Leison Gouveia, 25, who said he was asleep in an adjoining bedroom at the time.

"They watched the movie 'Jackass' and then they tried everything they watched on TV," said Gouveia, who said he learned of the incident from Bruno.

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/16379711.htm
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 09:20 AM
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1. I think they should rename these movies
to "Dumb-Ass"

(Of course I'm joking. I want no part of censorship. But oh, how I wish consumers would put the people who make this shit out of business--by not paying to see it!)
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 09:32 AM
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2. Bruno Potoozny?
Edited on Thu Jan-04-07 09:33 AM by underpants
or is it Bruno Wayne Potoozny?

"Can I go play with Bruno?" How do you answer that question?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 09:52 AM
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3. Did he jump or was he pushed?
Maybe the renter was sick of the little brats and tossed one out the window
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