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Hannah and Brennan also filed a civil suit against the producers <ref>{{cite web | url = http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/bumfights/bumfights100202cmp.pdf | title = Copy of Civil Complaint, Hannah and Brennan vs. McPherson, et al. | publisher = [[findlaw]] | format = PDF }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/03/1033538715422.html | title = Revenge of the homeless: 'Bumfight' video lawsuit | publisher = [[Sydney Morning Herald]] | date = October 3 2002}}</ref>; the producers agreed to pay an unspecified amount in damages, and to no longer use Hannah and Brennan's images for promotional purposes. |
Hannah and Brennan also filed a civil suit against the producers <ref>{{cite web | url = http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/bumfights/bumfights100202cmp.pdf | title = Copy of Civil Complaint, Hannah and Brennan vs. McPherson, et al. | publisher = [[findlaw]] | format = PDF }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/03/1033538715422.html | title = Revenge of the homeless: 'Bumfight' video lawsuit | publisher = [[Sydney Morning Herald]] | date = October 3 2002}}</ref>; the producers agreed to pay an unspecified amount in damages, and to no longer use Hannah and Brennan's images for promotional purposes. |
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Hannah has been sober since 2003<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040717/news_1m17fights.html | title = Former 'bum' beats the bottle - Army veteran was part of infamous underground video = [[findlaw]] }}</ref>, and is now a property manager. He spends 40 hours a week painting apartments, constructing fences, and many other things. He hopes to one day |
Hannah has been sober since 2003<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040717/news_1m17fights.html | title = Former 'bum' beats the bottle - Army veteran was part of infamous underground video = [[findlaw]] }}</ref>, and is now a property manager. He spends 40 hours a week painting apartments, constructing fences, and many other things. He hopes to one day have the 'Bum Fights' tattoo's removed from his forehead and knuckles. |
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Revision as of 21:40, 28 July 2010
Rufus Hannah (1955 in Swainsboro, Georgia), also known as Rufus the Stunt Bum, is an American advocate for homeless rights who became known for his role in the early Bumfights videos: in 2000, while himself a homeless alcoholic, he was paid $5 to be filmed running headfirst into a stack of milk crates[1].
Hannah has fathered five children, and is twice-divorced.
Biography
Hannah was raised in Swainsboro, GA. He started drinking at, 14 despite a "good family". He was a construction worker until the age of 27, when he joined in the U.S. Army. He was soon discharged after injuring himself during basic training. After his injury, he started drinking heavily, leading to his homelessness and alcoholism. In the early 1990s, he moved to California, where he was approached by Bumfights.
Bumfights
He subsequently was filmed performing other "stunts" for the Bumfights videos, including having "BUMFIGHTS" tattooed on his knuckles, riding a shopping cart down a flight of stairs, ramming his head into steel doors so hard that he today suffers from epilepsy, and beating up Donnie Brennan, another homeless man, so badly that Brennan's leg was broken in two places and required surgical intervention. Brennan, an army veteran, and Hannah (who was injured in basic training), were paid an average of $10 per stunt, although on one occasion Brennan was paid $200 to have "BUMFIGHTS" tattooed on his forehead.
In 2002, Hannah and Brennan testified in the criminal trials of the producers of Bumfights, on several charges, including the soliciting of felonies[2][3]; the defendants were acquitted on the majority of charges and sentenced to community service for conspiring to stage an illegal fight (in 2005, they were sentenced to 6 months in prison for having failed to complete the community service).
Hannah and Brennan also filed a civil suit against the producers [4][5]; the producers agreed to pay an unspecified amount in damages, and to no longer use Hannah and Brennan's images for promotional purposes.
Hannah has been sober since 2003[6], and is now a property manager. He spends 40 hours a week painting apartments, constructing fences, and many other things. He hopes to one day have the 'Bum Fights' tattoo's removed from his forehead and knuckles.
References
- ^ Aimee Molloy (August 6, 2006). "Degradation Inc". Phenomenon. New York Times magazine.
- ^ "'Bumfights' Producers To Stand Trial". NBC San Diego. January 15, 2003.
- ^ ""Bumfights" Video Creators Charged With Felonies" (Transcript of live interview with Hannah—misspelled "Hanna"). CNN.com. September 26, 2002.
- ^ "Copy of Civil Complaint, Hannah and Brennan vs. McPherson, et al" (PDF). findlaw.
- ^ "Revenge of the homeless: 'Bumfight' video lawsuit". Sydney Morning Herald. October 3 2002.
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External links
- "VH1 News Presents Extreme Reality Exposed - About the episode". VH1. Synopsis of an episode of VH1 News Presents, focusing on Bumfights, featuring Hannah and Brennan
- "2006 interview with Rufus Hannah" (Real Audio). The Current. CBC Radio.
- Former 'bum' beats the bottle by Michael Stetz of the San Diego Union-Tribune