Johnny Knoxville sued by repairman who was 'badly shaken and traumatized' by prank gone wrong
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Prankster Johnny Knoxville has been sued by a repairman for a prank that went wrong. On Friday, December 9, Khalil Khan filed a lawsuit seeking damages for emotional distress, worry, anxiety, and possible harm to his business reputation. The man works for the freelance handyman app Taskrabbit and claims he was hired to fix an electric dimmer switch at actor’s home.
As per documents, when he started working a lamp went out and a 10-year-old girl, likely an actress, reportedly accused him of killing her pony since it was on life support and the electricity had gone out. “You killed my pony!” the girl allegedly kept shouting. The lawsuit mentions that there was allegedly an actual pony in another room, unclear whether it was dead or alive. Khan, in his lawsuit, claims that his car was going to be towed, and then when he got worried due to the whole episode, he tried calling the cops.
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At this moment, a man reportedly told him his vehicle contained cocaine and will get in trouble if he tried calling the cops. A bag with white powder was pulled out, which further added to his anxiety and the alleged victim was ‘horrified’ because of this. “At this point, Plaintiff was in a panic,” the lawsuit claim. “In the span of just minutes, he had been threatened with being beaten up, told he botched the repair job, accused of murdering a pony, had his car taken without his permission, and was now being told that he would be arrested for possession of illicit narcotics.”
Khan alleges that it was Knoxville who finally revealed that it was just a prank and offered him money for his participation, reports TMZ. “But Plaintiff was not amused, and remains unamused,” the suit mentions. “He has been badly shaken and traumatized by this episode.” As per documents, he also claims that the owner of the house threatened to beat him up if didn’t do his job properly, and said, “I know jiu-jitsu,” reports Complex.
It is believed that the prank was likely filmed for 'The Prank Patrol', which will be aired on ABC series, featuring Knoxville, Eric Andre, and Gabourey Sidibe. The response from Knoxville’s team is still awaited on the lawsuit. Knoxville gave his career a fresh start with Hulu’s ‘Reboot’. He will be seen as Clay Barber, the actor and hilarious stand-up comedian who played, ‘Jake’, the ex-husband in ‘Step Right Up’, and is now fighting a lifetime of drug abuse, alcoholism, and several arrests for minor crimes.