A night of fist-bumping landed Jersey Shore “guido” Ronnie Magro behind bars in the Ocean County Jail.
Magro was arrested for aggravated assault after he decked a drunken racist during an altercation outside a Seaside Heights bar last September. Ronnie tells PEOPLE the fight — which was captured by MTV camera, mind you — erupted after an unidentified man hurled racist obscenities at one of Magro’s African-American bodyguards before spitting on him.
“I really don’t feel bad for the altercations that I did get into in Seaside because I’m really not a person who likes to fight,” Ron explained. “He was just being a drunk jerk, saw the camera… [and] I think he chased us down like two blocks or something like that. At that point, you’re like, ‘What am I gonna do?’”
Ronnie was later notified by mail that the charges were dismissed, but said he spent a few hours in jail, had a mug shot taken and was forced to fork over $600 smacks for bail.
“I definitely felt out of place,” he calls. “It’s definitely a place I never want to go back to again. Definitely a lesson learned.”