jackassworld

Immediately after wrapping up the Gumball Rally in 2001, Johnny Knoxville and the crew slid over the English Channel into France for some further cultural filming escapades on the European mainland. To join in on some new old world fun, Dave England was imported to Paris, where he was slated to film a number of bits, including “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Fountain Race,” and “Sketch Artist,” the very last of which had the most potential to go right but even more potential to go wrong with this particular artiste behind the easel. (Bam Margera, although seen here in the video, was present in Paris purely by coincidence on an unrelated skateboard tour.)

On the final night in Paris, Dave was perhaps somewhat prompted by others to wipe some of his freshly taken poop on the handle of Jeff Tremaine’s hotel room door. Now, all things considered, this was a perfectly acceptable thing for Dave to do—there really are no rules of engagement when it comes down to love, war, and filming for jackass—but if you’re going to throw down the prankish hammer then you damn well better be prepared for the other person to pick it right back up and smack you doubly hard in the face. It’s called payback and it’s a practical reality of the rotten never-ending games we play.

Tremaine’s retribution came in a rather easy and mild form. He simply got a hold of Guch, the keeper of all things production-oriented, and gained access to Dave’s room while he was out darfing about town. Once inside, he opened up Dave’s luggage and unleashed the full fury of his bladder on the contents within*.

When Darf returned to the room in the wee hours of the morning, he realized the contents of his bag were urine-soaked and flipped out in full-blown and irrational AWOL-style. Off to the airport he fled to return to the States (unbeknownst to anyone else on the production), but not before calling ahead to the crew’s next destination in Amsterdam to cancel all the booked hotel rooms and keep the thorn alive in everyone’s side.

* Weeks later, Dave claimed it wasn’t just the fact Tremaine had pissed in his bag that pissed him off, but that there were a bunch of Euro souvenirs for his family inside and he’d assumed they’d all gotten hosed in the process. It should be noted, however, that Tremaine did make a point of removing the aforementioned gift items before opening up the spigot on his penis.