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Here’s an example of what can happen when a prank goes so well it goes so wrong. The segment was entitled “Bloody Windshield,” and by this stage in the jackass game we were forced to doll up Johnny Knoxville in increasingly inconspicuous costumes, almost to the point where he looked just plain ridiculous. Then again, this is Los Angeles, so pretty much anything goes with 15,000,000 people occupying space, time, and all manner of eccentricity in the greater basin. Anyway, we’d just wrapped up the last prank of the day and were headed back to the office, when all of a fuckin’ sudden squad cars came ripping up and followed Knoxville’s gored-up vehicle into our studio-adjacent parking lot. From there it was all cops, guns, and orders to get out of the car and onto the pavement (all of which you can make out here, including a smidgen of Knoxville on the ground by the car), making this, technically, our third fully escalated encounter with the police on jackass. To our credit, we’d pulled a film permit earlier that day, so we were officially operating by the law-abiding book; however, what we’d neglected to specify was the overall nature of the prank. Oh well!

(photo by Sean Cliver; Hollywood, CA; 2001)