READ MORE: New \u2018Jackass\u2019 Series Is Coming To Paramount+ Thanks To The Success Of \u2018Jackass Forever\u2019<\/a><\/p>\nHandyman Kahlil Khan filed a swimsuit in Long Beach Superior Court towards Knoxville after being the unwilling participant in a just lately filmed prank. Khan alleges he signed up for a easy restore job on TaskRabbit in October that escalated right into a \u201cterrifying ordeal\u201d involving a number of mischievous incidents. Here\u2019s a play-by-play of the occasion.<\/p>\n
Khan claims he entered the house on the pretense that he restore a dimmer change. However, shortly after beginning, the home-owner threatened to beat him up if he didn\u2019t repair it accurately, saying, \u201cI know jiu-jitsu.\u201d A lamp went out quickly afterward, and a younger lady bumped into the room screaming, \u201cYou killed my pony.\u201d Khan protested, however the home-owner and the lady led him to a different room in the home the place a pony appeared on a life-support machine. After that, Khan seemed exterior and noticed a truck towing away his automobile. He tried to name the police, however one of many males warned him that if he did, he could be arrested for cocaine possession, and brandished a bag of white powder.<\/p>\n
At this level, Plaintiff was in a panic,\u201d reads the lawsuit. \u201cIn the span of just minutes, he had been threatened with being beaten up, told he botched the repair job, accused of murdering a pony, had his car taken without his permission, and was now being told that he would be arrested for possession of illicit narcotics.\u201d Knoxville quickly got here out of hiding and revealed to Khan that the entire incident was a prank, with all the contributors actors. Khan alleges Knoxville supplied him just a few hundred {dollars}, nevertheless it felt extra like everybody needed him to chortle the prank off.<\/p>\n
Obviously, Khan didn\u2019t take very effectively to Knoxville\u2019s exploits. \u201cBut Plaintiff was not amused, and remains unamused,\u201d the lawsuit learn. \u201cHe has been badly shaken and traumatized by this episode.\u201d Khan\u2019s lawsuit claims he suffered lack of sleep, anxiousness, and emotional misery from the incident. It additionally says he fears that he\u2019ll be topic to \u201cembarrassment and ridicule\u201d if audiences ever noticed footage of the prank.<\/p>\n
No phrase from Knoxville but concerning the incident or the lawsuit, however this actually makes it sound just like the \u201cJackass\u201d crew is as much as their previous methods once more. Still, case apart, the entire affair feels much less like a bodily harmful stunt than a rigorously staged prank. So, not precisely a return to kind for Johnny Knoxville and his cronies if the stunt is certainly for a future \u201cJackass\u201d movie.<\/p>\n
\u201cJackass Forever\u201d made $80 million on the field workplace, in the same vary as \u201cJackass: The Movie<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cJackass Number Two<\/strong>.\u201d But as an alternative of a brand new movie, this stunt is probably going a part of the brand new \u201cJackass\u201d TV present Knoxville has arrange at Paramount<\/strong>+, due to the success of \u201cForever.\u201d As far as \u201cJackass\u201d stunts go, this one feels a bit of tame however little doubt traumatizing for Mr. Kahn. One wonders if it can have an effect on the Paramount+ present transferring ahead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n