 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 Ryan McPherson to produce "Bumfights".He subsequently was filmed performing other "stunts" for the "Bumfights" videos, including riding a shopping cart down a flight of stairs, ramming his head into steel doors so hard that he suffered from epilepsy, and beating up Donald "Donnie" Brennan, another homeless man, so badly that Brennan's leg was broken in two places and required surgical intervention.