You may recognise Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut from X-Men 3 – but, whatever you do, you must never actually tell him that.
Seriously, don’t. There’s so much more to Vinnie Jones than being in an X-Men film, like being the mute thug in that John Travolta thriller from seven years ago, or being the ninth male lead in Eurotrip. Honestly, the man is an artist.
So don’t tell Vinnie Jones that you recognise him from X-Men because, if you do, he’ll beat you up until he gets arrested. Which seems to be more or less exactly what happened in South Dakota last week.
Vinnie Jones is something of a national treasure. He just seems to symbolise the British psyche better than anyone else on Earth. Maybe it’s because of his grit and no-nonsense attitude, maybe it’s because he looks like he’s been genetically designed to participate in shitfaced 3am bottlefights outside pikey nightclubs or maybe it’s because he disappeared to America at the first sniff of money but, either way, Vinnie Jones is British through and through.
And just to prove how British he is, Vinnie Jones got himself arrested on Thursday night in South Dakota after allegedly getting into a bar brawl because somebody looked at him funny. Our hearts are literally bursting with pride right now, you have no idea. AP has details:
Police said Jones, 43, got into a scuffle late Thursday at Wiley’s Tavern and suffered cuts on his face from a beer glass. A police sergeant said Jones apparently charged at Jesse Bickett of Montrose, who hit Jones with the glass. One of Bickett’s roommates, Juan Barrera, said they were playing pool when Jones asked to join, then got offended when one of them asked if he was “that guy from X-Men.”
Now, to be fair, if this version of events is true it sounds like these idiots had it coming. How dare they recognise Vinnie Jones from the largest-grossing movie of his career! That came out like two years ago – if Bickett or Barrera had any sense, they’d have chosen to recognise Vinnie Jones from one of his more recent movies like The Riddle, The Heavy, The Condemned, Strength & Honour, Tooth & Nail or Garfield: A Tale Of Two Kitties.
When will these people learn that Vinnie Jones only likes to be recognised as the star of movies with titles that begin with the word ‘The’, or contain two randomly-chosen words with an ampersand in the middle, or are funny cartoons about lazy orange cats? Because, honestly, when it comes to Vinnie Jones, that knowledge is basically gospel.
Anyway, according to reports Vinnie Jones was quite badly injured when he was hit in the face with the glass, with his nose allegedly being cut to the bone. That’s the sort of injury that’ll leave a nasty scar, and it’s bound to have a negative effect on Vinnie’s movie career.
It means that, from now on, Vinnie Jones is only going to be cast as silent, glowering, goonish criminal hooligan henchmen in everything he stars… oh, hang on.
Horror says
” A police sergeant said Jones apparently charged at Jesse Bickett…”
If he didn’t say “I was the Juggernaut, Bitch” before charging the guy, then he deserves a life sentence. He could have turned this situation into pure gold if he dropped that bomb before going on his rampage.
Ironlung says
did he win or what?
melabonbon says
Or Midnight Meat Train.
tatiana says
Well according to vinnie, Which he is my favorite actor, I really don’t care what happens to him because if he likes to fight then they should let him fight. It’s his life!