'Jackass' alum Steve-O was removed by firefighters after he duct-taped himself to a Hollywood billboard Thursday to promote his new comedy special.
“I’m attached to a billboard right now,” he wrote on Instagram, “and want to emphasize that a team of real professionals rigged everything safely. There is zero chance of me falling, and it’s important to me that we not waste any valuable city resources on this. I’m happy to just hang out.”
However, firefighters were also called to the scene Thursday and helped get the stunt actor down from the billboard.Steve-O is seen taped to a Hollywood billboard along Cahuenga Boulevard on Thursday to promote his new project, “Gnarly.” Bixler estimated that a crowd of about 100 people gathered to watch the stunt. He said nobody was wearing masks or social distancing, “And that can create a problem for our communities.”A Times photographer on the scene, however, noted that some observers were wearing masks.
The department was not informed of the stunt in advance, nor was it permitted as far as he knew, Humphrey said. Twenty-one personnel responded to the incident and helped take down the comedian and cleared the area a little more than an hour later.“We were responsible to go if for no other reason [than] to protect the public, to make sure that people were not distracted and no harm came to them,” Humphrey said.
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