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Man Who Punched Snooki Can't Find Job, Joins Army
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Jaya Saxena
Published Mar 6, 2011
Modified Mar 6, 2011
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Brad Ferro, who gained national fame after punching America's Meatball Snooki on an episode of Jersey Shore, has had a tough time recently. He was fired from his job as a gym teacher in Queens, and hasn't been able to get hired since. Left without any other options, he has joined the army, and his dad is pissed that it has come to this. He told the Post, "My son made them famous. They made a lot of money off of him, and I think they owe him." Perhaps he could become another roommate in Italy?
Ferro pleaded guilty to assault, paid a $500 fine and served six months probation. But his dad says he was just acting in "self-defense": "This kid has never been in any trouble -- ever. Thanks to MTV, he got fired. Every other option he would've had got cut off. He still has college loans." He also said it's made his son very antisocial. "That was one of the first things he said, 'What kind of woman is gonna want to have anything to do with me?' I mean, you go on a couple of dates and then pump 'Brad Ferro' into Google...He wasn't very sociable after that." And though Snooki was being extremely argumentative, perhaps he should have thought of the consequences and just walked away.
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