# Not another Jackass incident...! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199 "2003-05-29T05:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/21 "2003-05-29T18:12:42Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve heard plenty of tales from grandparents and other relatives about pulling dangerous stunts - trying to jump out of the hayloft into a big pile of hay at the bottom of the barn (missing = broken bones or worse), climbing the silo as a little kid, taking the tractor out for a joyride and nearly tipping it over in a ditch, racing across a railroad bridge hoping to beat the train, and so on. All these things will only injure the person doing them, whereas firing boiling water on someone will injure someone else. Blaming Jackass, or any other show or movie, is utter bullshit. Nobody, repeat NOBODY, walked into Jackass thinking “I’m pretty crazy. One time I got a brain freeze from drinking a malt too fast” and walked out and decided to shove a car up his ass for a laugh. People who went in already doing similar shit might have gotten an inspiration for HOW to be a dumbshit, but no one was inspired to BECOME a dumbshit. **NoGoodNamesLeft** said it best: As far as I’m concerned, if you can’t see that leaping off a bridge wasn’t a smart thing to do, you don’t deserve to live. ---
**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/22 "2003-05-30T00:03:47Z")
_blush_ …my first “NoGoodNamesLeft said it best” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/23 "2003-05-30T01:38:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Equal \* > \*\*Would anyone advocate that these “dangerous” shows which seem to influence the not-so-bright to do dangerous things be taken off the air? > For the public safety? \*\* Just the opposite, actually. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/24 "2003-05-30T14:21:33Z")
> [@](#): > > I have NO sympathy every time I see one of these morons break their necks skateboarding over a huge rail… I suppose that feeling extends to football players getting paralized, hockey players with shattered facial bones, and baseball players with concussions from wild pitches? Oh right, those are REAL sports huh? Also, and I do not mean to belittle what has happened, but 1st and 2nd degree burns from the volume of 1 cup of water is not THAT bad. It is horrible it happened but some of you are acting like this young kid is going to have months in a burn unit and have physical scars for life. Mean (Where’s my asbestos suit?) Joe ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/25 "2003-05-31T01:50:04Z")
There is a discrepency between the print media, and the televised media coverage of this. (Or was, maybe it’s been corrected.) When I saw the story covered on tv, they said the kid had suffered second AND third degree burns. Also, it looked to me as if the kid were taking the paper cup of water out of the microwave. If that’s the case, then it is quite possible to inflict third degree burns from the super heated center of the liquid. The print media only mentioned second degree burns. Has anyone found a more recent story that describes the wounds suffered? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/26 "2003-05-31T19:24:31Z")
FWIW, I think Jackass was taken off the air. And yes, this kid should be shot. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/27 "2003-05-31T19:46:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MeanJoe \* > \*\*I suppose that feeling extends to football players getting paralized, hockey players with shattered facial bones, and baseball players with concussions from wild pitches? > > Oh right, those are REAL sports huh?\*\* Eh, I’m sure someone will be along to make the argument more eloquently than I, but here’s my take to entertain you in the interim. IMHO, there’s a world of difference between being injured while playing a professional sport and injuring _yourself_ copying a television show that _tells you not to copy it’s stunts._ I mean, participating in an organized sport that has evolved over the past decades to develop rules and equipment designed to best protect their participants isn’t a _terrible_ risk. Sometimes the rules and/or equipment aren’t enough to protect their participants. It’s unfortunate, but horrible injuries are the exception rather than the rule. That’s one thing. Doing something that is dangerous to the point of being blatantly against common sense, taking as few precautions as possible (indeed, going out of your way to make things _more_ dangerous), and fucking yourself up, that’s something else entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/28 "2003-05-31T19:46:57Z")
Why? If it culls out the “I saws it on da TeeVee” morons, so much the better. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/29 "2003-05-31T19:48:24Z")
Why ban it? If it culls out the “I saws it on da TeeVee” morons, so much the better. ---
**Author:** ![the\_fascist\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@the\_fascist\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_fascist_hunter)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199/30 "2003-05-31T19:55:44Z")
Why ban it? If it culls out the “I saws it on da TeeVee” morons, so much the better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-another-jackass-incident/178199.md?page=1)