The Gene Pool Could Use A Little Chlorine!

Ok, I admit that when I was younger I was known, from time to time, to do stupid things that seemed like a good idea at the time. Things like riding a bike with no hands, riding on the hoods of cars, etc. As I got older the stunts got sillier but even I, on my worst day, would not consider doing what this schmuck did.

Now acting dumb or stupid is not a bad thing per se. Some of us may not have been too bright at some time or another and what may have seemed like a good idea at the time was, in retrospect, just plain stupid. Later in life we look back and say, "Boy was I an idiot for doing that."

But this clown is my leading candidate for the "Darwin Award" for the year.

And if that is not bad enough he wants to be paid $10,000,000 (yes, that's ten million dollars) for being stupid enough to put his genitals in a mousetrap.

From the Washington Post:

'Jackass' Star Sued Over Radio Stunt
The Associated PressSunday, June 3,
2007; 5:11 AM
LOS ANGELES -- 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, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Knoxville and others,
alleges fraud, negligence and unjust enrichment.
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.
Calls to representatives for Knoxville, Kimmel and Carolla were
not returned Saturday.

Hopefully, the judge will throw this case right out of court.

"Plaintiff agreed to do so..."

Where in the law does it say that a person has to pay someone else because that someone else doesn't have the common sense not to pull a stupid stunt like that?

It doesn't matter if this guy signed a contract or not. It doesn't matter if this was part of his job, what matters is: Where the hell was his common sense?

Most of us stopped using the "Steve told me to do it" defense by the age of twelve. Have we become so spoiled and used to being allowed to blame somebody else for our actions that we no longer have to take responsibility for the consequences of those actions?

Is this person to be rewarded for being so stupid?

If he is to be rewarded then I say he should be forced to spend whatever money is left over from the lawyers to put himself away because he is too stupid to be allowed to live amongst the general public.

What do you think?