Who among us hasn’t wished to fly through the skies on a contraption fashioned from sticks, dreams, and a whole lot of hubris of man? Like us and Icarus before him, Steve-O was set to take a flying leap off the nearest hill on a homemade hang glider during the filming of “Jackass 2”. The stunt did not go well. In fact, it didn’t go at all.
Steve-O is filled with regret over that fact. He describes in a YouTube video that the hang glider build took all day, and a king’s ransom of bamboo, tarps, and, from the looks of it, the skill of at least one person who won their grade school Egg Drop.
Still, despite the investment of time and glue invested in Steve-O’s hang glider stunt, Steve-O ultimately got too scared to take flight. “I wimped out so bad, man,” Steve-O says on his YouTube page, adding: “Kinda running down a hill was the closest I got to any footage. It was pathetic!” Steve-O has actually expressed such regret at not taking wing with this stunt, that we wouldn’t be surprised if one day he attempted it again. You know what, now that we think about it, Steve-O would make a great host for Red Bull’s Flugtag competition.
