NEWSJohnny Knoxville Defends Airport Grenade Incident
Jan. 16 2009, Published 7:51 a.m. ET
A day after Johnny Knoxville was stopped at LAX for having a fake grenade in his carry-on bag, the Jackass star is speaking out about the incident.
Knoxville took to his blog on the official Jackass website, where he wrote:
"A few days ago, I was filming some commericals for this show we are doing for MTV called Nitro Circus, so I took a bunch of silly props in my carry-on bag to the shoot. Well, when the shoot was over, the wardrobe girl packed my luggage so I could go home and unbeknownst to me, she packed a FAKE hand grenade (a prop grenade that I'd taken to the shoot) in the front zipper of my luggage. Needless to say, when I was packing to go out of town this morning with my girlfriend and daughter, I didn’t see the FAKE grenade in my luggage."
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Knoxville continues, "The cops did their job and verified that it wasn’t real. Also, they were cool as they could be to me, considering the situation, and it is no ones fault but my own. I should have checked my god***n luggage through and through, but I didn’t and now we have this incident. From what I hear, all the tabloids are saying it was a real grenade, but that’s bulls**t. They just said that to make a story out of it, because if it was real I never would have been allowed to board my flight to Miami an hour later. Anyway, it was a mistake, and I just landed at the Miami airport. Damn.
