The injuries were enough to send Margera to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, where his mother and sometime costar, April Margera, said he was in intensive care for most of Saturday. But not enough, she said, to keep him from getting a doctor's permission - as long as he doesn't overdo it - to fly out to Hollywood where he is frantically rewriting the ending of his next movie, Jackass 3-D.
"I begged him not to go," April Margera said Monday. "But I understand that millions of dollars were at stake."
Her famous son was found lying on his stomach in the middle of South Matlack Street in his native West Chester about 2 a.m. Saturday, bleeding from a gash on the left side of his head, police said. He was just around the corner from The Note, the nightspot he co-owns.
Margera was not only conscious - he was mad, according to the criminal complaint filed against Ray. The complaint quoted Margera as saying repeatedly, "Why did you hit me, you crazy b-?" and "I pay your rent."
That wasn't the worst of it, according to a neighbor who said he witnessed the episode. Michael Jamal Jackson - who said he attended West Chester East High School with Margera - said he was less than a block away and heard Margera direct racial epithets at Ray before the blows were struck.
"[T]he next thing you know, she cracked him over the head," Jackson said Monday.
The complaint said the weapon was either a bat or a pipe.
Jackson said Ray - "Ms. Liz," he called her - had complained repeatedly about noise from crowds that gather outside after the club closes. He said walls that The Note had installed to lessen the noise don't make much difference.
West Chester Police Chief Scott L. Bohn said The Note had not generated a disproportionate number of complaints about noise or disorderly conduct.
