I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, there's something to the idea of censoring what your children watch. Or at the very least, taking some responsibility for making sure your kids can read and understand the disclaimer at the beginning of a film like "Jackass: Number Two" before you let them watch it and then eave them to their own devices. Such thinking is a little too late for whoever's responsible for eleven-year-old Wallison Costa, who is in a Philadelphia intensive care unit after throwing himself out a second-story window in an attempt to mimic a scene featuring Bam Margera. To be fair, it worked out fine the first time Wallison tried it.
He was found on the pavement by the mother of his friend Bruno Potoozny, who is described as having watched the defenestration with "bemused trepidation", and taken to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children for treatment.
Wallison and Bruno are known around the neighborhood for "tomfoolery", including such shenanigans as cutting school, jumping around on the roofs, and shooting BBs at their neighbors' homes in the wee hours of the morning. But this newest trick has lost them at least one cohort: "My son won't be going up there no more," said Harriet Lincoln, mother of 13-year-old Jahlil, a friend of the other boys "Oh, no,
playing a stunt like that, oh, no! I'm so glad my son wasn't there."
Bam Margera's spokesperson declined to comment.
