Steve-O was live-streaming his anti-SeaWorld protest on Facebook before getting arrested.
Steve-O was arrested for climbing a 100-foot crane at a Hollywood construction site on Sunday evening.
LAPD and firefighters were initially unsure whether a man needed to be rescued from the crane but, it was later revealed that it was a publicity stunt and part of his anti-SeaWorld protests.
Steve-O was live streaming the incident on Facebook and had earlier trailed his stunt on Instagram, saying that he was about to do something that would get him in trouble.
This is not the first time Steve-O was arrested. In 2002, Steve-O was arrested on obscenity and assault charges for stapling his scrotum to his leg, and for being a principal to a second-degree battery, during a performance at a nightclub in Houma, Louisiana. In 2003, Steve-O toured Europe with Bam Margera, a friend and co-star of Jackass. On May 22, 2003 Steve-O was arrested and jailed while in Sweden due to footage of himself swallowing a condom containing cannabis to get it past authorities while flying on a plane. He then regurgitated it live on stage, which he showed in his DVD Steve-O: Out on Bail. Two months later, Steve-O was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct for urinating on potato chips in public during a Lollapalooza tour concert.
Steve-O would later get arrested for possession of cocaine and was forced to go to rehab and a mental institution. He said, because “I’ve had horrible mood swings and severe depression. My brain is fucked up from using so much cocaine, ketamine, PCP, nitrous oxide, and all sorts of other drugs.”
Steve-O became famous after the TV series ‘Jackass’ and the spinoff movies.
Source: THR
