motoring
Oooh! That had to hurt!
Back-flip balls-up
They got the money, they've got the looks, but what they don't have is the talent to stay shiny side-up on a motorcycle. Didn't their mothers tell them anything?
'Jackass' star Johnny Knoxville is used to pain. His show specialises in crazy stunts that often involve the hosts suffering for their art. However, his latest prank left the 36-year-old American actor bleeding and sore in a very private place. As he attemtped to back-flip a motorcycle for a TV programme he mis-timed his run and in the resulting crash (fellas, look away now), almost tore off his testicles. He later said from hospital: "I've just got back from Oklahoma where I was shooting Mat Hoffman's tribute to Evel Knievel. I had a ball, too, even though I almost lost my own balls in the process! "I don't want to give too much away because it doesn't air until February 23, but let's just say before I did a back-flip on a motorcycle I should have learned how to ride one first. "I have to go now. I have to empty the piss bag on my leg that I have to wear for the next two weeks until my torn urethra heals." Ouch.
