Do we like them?

Do we like Ryan Dunn?

Our score: 5 out of 10. No harmful words turned up, but the record is thin and the final night, as police described it, was reckless and cost another person's life.

Ryan Dunn was one of the original Jackass cast, the crew who built a career on stunts and pranks. More than a decade after his death his mates were still posting tributes, with Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee Man and director Jeff Tremaine among those who marked what would have been his 45th birthday in 2022.

The story everyone knows is how it ended. In June 2011 Dunn died at 34 when his Porsche crashed and his passenger died too. West Goshen police said the car may have been doing as fast as 140 mph in a 55 mph zone, and a toxicology report put his blood alcohol at 0.196, more than twice the legal limit.

A year later the passenger's parents sued, and TheWrap reported the details. The suit named the co-administrators of Dunn's estate and the bar where he had been drinking. It alleged negligence and recklessness by the estate, including driving under the influence and speeding, and alleged the bar kept serving a visibly intoxicated man. No court decision is in what we read, and no response from the defendants was reported.

On the harm check, we found nothing. No remarks about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or the planet, no conspiracy rabbit holes, and no running with people who push that stuff turned up. To be straight with you, the record is thin: nothing new on him lately either, and his career ended in 2011, before most of today's culture wars.

The good stuff is mostly how his mates remember him. Steve-O wrote that he “can't believe it's been ten years since we lost Ryan Dunn.” Bam Margera called him “the happiest person ever.” That is love from friends rather than a charity record, and we found no verified causes to add.

So where does that leave him? Passing on harm is easy when there is nothing on the record. The good-person side is harder. Police said he drove at extreme speed after drinking, and another person died, so we can't call it a clean pass. Plenty of people loved him, and the way it ended still counts. It is a close call, not a fail.