Careercow Brandon "Bam" Margera - From Jackass to Lolcow

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Smh at the silly goose dropping kf links in the bam thread on slap uwtb forum. Nothing good can come of this lol

the slap yentas deserve their own kf thread.
 
Bam isn't giving timelines in his post but per her website she hasn't been in Glasgow since 2017. If she's actually the sister of Matt Lidwin of 616 then they've likely known each other for years.

That said, I'm curious as to where people are getting that they're siblings. They don't have the same last name (any number of reasons for that of course), but Matt's video and post a few pages back don't mention or even suggest a family relationship.

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She appears to be a former PhD candidate who went off the deep end. Many such cases. That said, she doesn't quite fit the profile of the toothless methhead Bam picked up at a gas station as I had figured she was.
 
As one of his biggest enablers up to this point it will be interesting to see Legal Cage Match for the deed to the Cringe Castle Saga:
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You can say a lot about Jess but he’s definitely going to have more legal standing to sue than Bam does. All Bam needs to have happen is a court mandated hair follicle drug test and his case crumbles immediately.

Also, Bam predictably ended up at a strip club last night.
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Obviously he was only there to drink ice water and ask for directions on how to get as far away from the liquor and silicone tits as possible.
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Fucking what?! :stress:

I never heard of that.
On August 18, 2006, Margera was arrested at the Colorado Mills Mall in Lakewood, Colorado, on suspicion of inappropriately touching two 12-year-old girls. He was released after posting bail of $50,000.[8]

I don’t find it that far fetched, considering Vito’s history but idk how much truth there would be in that rumor
 
On August 18, 2006, Margera was arrested at the Colorado Mills Mall in Lakewood, Colorado, on suspicion of inappropriately touching two 12-year-old girls. He was released after posting bail of $50,000.[8]

I don’t find it that far fetched, considering Vito’s history but idk how much truth there would be in that rumor
Vito was a fucking creep, Woodward skatepark was a NIGHTMARE of a “skate park” and I am so glad they shut it down. That mall sucks too, I hate having to go there for ANY reason lol. I don’t doubt Vito was a creep to those 2 girls at all.
 
Vito was a fucking creep, Woodward skatepark was a NIGHTMARE of a “skate park” and I am so glad they shut it down. That mall sucks too, I hate having to go there for ANY reason lol. I don’t doubt Vito was a creep to those 2 girls at all.
I believe the girls. I just don’t know if I believe the rumor that April and the dad let Bam run amok because Vito may have diddled him. I guess it’s plausible but could also be that his parents just didn’t give a crap. A lot of parents don’t.
 
Vito was a fucking creep, Woodward skatepark was a NIGHTMARE of a “skate park” and I am so glad they shut it down. That mall sucks too, I hate having to go there for ANY reason lol. I don’t doubt Vito was a creep to those 2 girls at all.
What was wrong with Woodward? I thought it was supposed to be Disney World for skaters.
 
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What was wrong with Woodward? I thought it was supposed to be Disney World for skaters.
This was a Woodward in a mall. It was crowded af, full of kids who don’t normally go to skateparks and was in general a terrible idea.

It was only popular because it was indoors, which is rad in Colorado because of snow but the skate turds at the better parks come out in the morning, shovel and have it mostly dry by afternoon. Sadly it definitely wasn’t the Woodward we think of when we hear the name. It was a shitty mall park. And they charged too much for sessions lol.
 
Most famous skateboarders are dreadful people.
The lack of self preservation skateboarding requires seems to go along with a combination of unbalanced state of mind and arrogance.
And recklessness and general attraction to excess.

There are two big name sane ones (my reference points are older than Bam, etc.):

Tony Hawk (an obvious choice) and Rodney Mullen, who continues to be cool as fuck [If anyone doesn't know him, he's the OG of freestyle/basically invented streetskating. He invented the flat ground ollie and the kickflip and a lot more. He's magic to watch, going back to his teen days and to this day, at 56. Afaik, never came anywhere close to falling off the rails, just quiet and weird and persistent and brilliant. Special note for KF: he's also likely autistic, and perhaps also a savant (his mother is/was a savant, supposedly). He became hugely rich beyond skateboarding by designing some new kind of board truck, patented it, and sold it for millions. He's still continuously trying to create and perfect moves to this day.]

A couple of other biggies I can think of became crazy disasters -
Christian Hosoi (bankruptcy; evaded arrest on some minor charges, even pulling out of the first X games to avoid it, only to be arrested trying to board a plane while carrying a pound and a half of crystal meth; went to jail for 10 years, saw the light, and I think is some sort of pastor now), and
Gator Rogowski (brutal, horrible assault, rape and murder of a woman who was friends of his recent ex-girlfriend)
 
And recklessness and general attraction to excess.

There are two big name sane ones (my reference points are older than Bam, etc.):

Tony Hawk (an obvious choice) and Rodney Mullen, who continues to be cool as fuck [If anyone doesn't know him, he's the OG of freestyle/basically invented streetskating. He invented the flat ground ollie and the kickflip and a lot more. He's magic to watch, going back to his teen days and to this day, at 56. Afaik, never came anywhere close to falling off the rails, just quiet and weird and persistent and brilliant. Special note for KF: he's also likely autistic, and perhaps also a savant (his mother is/was a savant, supposedly). He became hugely rich beyond skateboarding by designing some new kind of board truck, patented it, and sold it for millions. He's still continuously trying to create and perfect moves to this day.]

A couple of other biggies I can think of became crazy disasters -
Christian Hosoi (bankruptcy; evaded arrest on some minor charges, even pulling out of the first X games to avoid it, only to be arrested trying to board a plane while carrying a pound and a half of crystal meth; went to jail for 10 years, saw the light, and I think is some sort of pastor now), and
Gator Rogowski (brutal, horrible assault, rape and murder of a woman who was friends of his recent ex-girlfriend)
Fuck I forgot about gator! Fucking dick.

Andrew Reynolds is a good guy, Chris cole, duffel, nygun, song, Sean malto and David Reyes (my lil short kings lol) in general most of the pro skaters I’ve met have been pretty rad. BUT there are the creeps and predators and they do slip through the cracks. Mostly it’s the fucking filmers that are the weirdos.
 
Fuck I forgot about gator! Fucking dick.

Andrew Reynolds is a good guy, Chris cole, duffel, nygun, song, Sean malto and David Reyes (my lil short kings lol) in general most of the pro skaters I’ve met have been pretty rad. BUT there are the creeps and predators and they do slip through the cracks. Mostly it’s the fucking filmers that are the weirdos.
The Duffman is a funny dude, very honest person with one hell of a pain tolerance.
 
I wouldn’t have a problem with his lifestyle if he was upfront about it, he’s a piece of shit waster who’s going to party and fuck around into an early grave and he doesn’t care. That’s him and that’s it.

It’s the open wound bleading heart victim hood crying that makes me despise him. You can’t keep talking about trauma when you’re 45, it’s pathetic. It makes him look despicably weak and selfish.

We all know people who use the bad parts of life to justify their shitty lazy attitudes. I abhor it.
 
On August 18, 2006, Margera was arrested at the Colorado Mills Mall in Lakewood, Colorado, on suspicion of inappropriately touching two 12-year-old girls. He was released after posting bail of $50,000.[8]

I don’t find it that far fetched, considering Vito’s history but idk how much truth there would be in that rumor

I was aware of Vito's arrest, I just never heard of that rumour.
Besides, it doesnt make too much sense, especially considering Bam being so comfortable around him.
As one of his biggest enablers up to this point it will be interesting to see Legal Cage Match for the deed to the Cringe Castle Saga:
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You can say a lot about Jess but he’s definitely going to have more legal standing to sue than Bam does. All Bam needs to have happen is a court mandated hair follicle drug test and his case crumbles immediately.

Also, Bam predictably ended up at a strip club last night.
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Obviously he was only there to drink ice water and ask for directions on how to get as far away from the liquor and silicone tits as possible.
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"Excuse me, could I have some icy liquids to cease my ending thirst? And while you are at it, could you point me towards a direction with the least amount of alcaholic producs and silicone based mammaries as possible?
 
Fuck I forgot about gator! Fucking dick.

Andrew Reynolds is a good guy, Chris cole, duffel, nygun, song, Sean malto and David Reyes (my lil short kings lol) in general most of the pro skaters I’ve met have been pretty rad. BUT there are the creeps and predators and they do slip through the cracks. Mostly it’s the fucking filmers that are the weirdos.
Gator is a psycho.
Turning pro at 14 didn't help, and even though the money was peanuts then, he was not equipped for it or for when skating money dried up, and even before he went total nightmare, the other guys around then (Hosoi, Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain) thought he was nutty and difficult. Daddy issues and who knows what else. He also weirdly got into some strict version of no-premarital-sex evangelical Christianity while with the girl whose friend he murdered (which didn't stop him from obsessing over, stalking and physically abusing her before they broke up). After that, seems all bets of normalcy were off - became a drunk, got weirdly competitive with/jealous of Tony Hawk, who was successfully navigating the industry change, and then went full murdering psychopath. What he did to that girl was horrific, and seemingly for no "reason," even in his own retelling (other than revenge vs his ex/muh bipolar, which is garbage - it was a sadistic control - he made her suffer for days - and arrogance, and I still think there was something weird with his enabling pastor.

I'll have to look at those guys you mention. I don't even know about the current crop of skaters (lol tbh I barely even know knew who Bam Margera was/is, and he went pro in the 90s!). The last time I went on a research jag to catch up with guys who were big way-back-when, I did come across this really young Japanese kid maybe starting to do some stuff in the freestyle space, so I might see where he goes and what's up in the skate space in general.

But I agree, lots of skaters are just fun or mellow...but any sport/activity/lifestyle that comprises primarily teenaged boys/20s young men, doesn't have formal structure in the way traditional sports do, and prizes doing your own thing and badassedness (and therefore attracts, among others, many who constitutionally don't mesh well with expectations and social "appropriateness"/ rebellious types) is probably going to have a larger than average proportion of fuckups. It's all a lot more corporate now, though, and everyone (in general, not just skating) is way more savvy about and into monetization (of everything) than they used to be - and there is now potential money in it, whereas in the 80s it was so much less organized - so maybe the proportion of crazy will lower now, idk. (Bam's trajectory aside, lol...at least he hasn't murdered anyone? :optimistic: )
 
As one of his biggest enablers up to this point it will be interesting to see Legal Cage Match for the deed to the Cringe Castle Saga:
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You can say a lot about Jess but he’s definitely going to have more legal standing to sue than Bam does. All Bam needs to have happen is a court mandated hair follicle drug test and his case crumbles immediately.

Also, Bam predictably ended up at a strip club last night.
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Obviously he was only there to drink ice water and ask for directions on how to get as far away from the liquor and silicone tits as possible.
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Holy shit, so Jess wasn't being paranoid. Bam PAID a helicopter company something in the ballpark of $4000 or more just to harass his brother. :lit:

What a shame this isn't being filmed by MTV. A Viva La Bam Revival would be the greatest reality television. I'm now dreaming of a Manic 43 year old Bam still doing his Bart Simpson/Kevin McCallister pranks on his family. Alligator in Castle Bam when???

I didn't realize until now that Phil was calling for Jess at the start of this skit. With Jess always being out of the camera in Jackass/Viva La Bam I assumed he was just working on CKY.

You're right I gotta stop being such a dick to Jess, being a distant spectator I only know the Bam Margera on camera and usually at his absolute worst. Only Jess and the closest members of the family know the real Brandon Margera. For all I know when Bam isn't in character he can be a good guy, he likely has (fleeting) moments of clarity where he realizes that his family wants what's best for him. It's when he starts drinking & tweaking the full BPD monster comes out.

I feel bad for April & Phil. I think to this day they still have control over handling the Bam Margera fortune if that weren't the case Bam would have blown through the fortune a decade ago with a harem of Baby Mamas all clawing for child support. You can argue that they're enablers but if Bam had his lawyers try to break the trust/corporation all hell would break loose. Real "Jarndyce v. Jarndyce" shit.

This is why Jess wants to fucking destroy That Surprise Witness. BJ wants Bam to think he is the victim, he is Britney Spears. She's "The Devil in the Belfry."
 
She appears to be a former PhD candidate who went off the deep end. Many such cases. That said, she doesn't quite fit the profile of the toothless methhead Bam picked up at a gas station as I had figured she was.
There's a greater overlap between those two demographics than you'd think.
 
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