Bam Margera needs little introduction. He’s the skater who’s sold more decks than any other pro in the history of skateboarding. He’s amassed a fortune by tormenting his friends and family on video tape. As a byproduct, these victims have reaped their own rewards through the celebrity shrapnel Bam has inflicted upon them via his MTV television shows.

One of these Bam-created celebrities is his father’s brother, Don Vito Margera. Don’s a slovenly fifty-year-old unmarried mess who displays little of his nephew’s creative spark or athleticism. On Bam’s show, audiences delight as Bam taunts Don Vito with women, food, rewards, and physical pain. Don Vito has turned this maltreatment into cash by booking celebrity appearances. This past weekend, one of his appearances at a Denver mall skatepark went horribly wrong when he was arrested for groping girls aged 12 and 14. He’s currently held in jail without bail pending a court appearance today (wednesday). It would be nice to find out that the charges were fabricated by Bam as yet another way to torture his pig of an uncle.

Here’s coverage of Don Vito’s arrest on MTV’s website. Don Margera was actually in Denver doing some promotional work for a website company (not Austin Skate Notes) which is now leveraging his alleged crime and arrest for publicity.