In the latest celebrity arrested news,
word comes that Mel Gibson was busted for a DUI late Thursday night.
Gibson's 2006 Lexus LS 430 was speeding on Pacific Coast Highway when deputies stopped him at 2:36 a.m., said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
"He was going 87 miles per hour in a 45-miles-per-hour zone," Whitmore said.
Deputies conducted field sobriety tests. A breath test indicated Gibson's blood-alcohol level was 0.12 percent, Whitmore said. California drivers 21 and older must remain under 0.08 percent.
Not a big deal; sure Mel's famous, and while promoting The Passion he repeatedly said his religion had helped him beat his past demons, but it's not a major DUI. He was driving pretty wildly, but he was only a beer over the limit and he didn't hit anyone.
So what's the news, then?
The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You motherfucker. I'm going to fuck you." The report also says "Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."
The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "Fucking Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"
The deputy became alarmed as Gibson's tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed the camera and then said, "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"
Well alright then. Even better, the LA Sheriff's Office is in trouble, since this was all in the arresting officer's original report, before higher ups told him to
lose the stuff that made Mel look bad.
Unlike fellow religious nut/actor Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson didn't replace his professionl publicist with his fellow nut sister, as evidenced by
the apology issued the next day; an apology that Mel might have written as much as two or three words of.
Gibson also apologized Saturday for what he called "my belligerent behavior" when he was taken into custody.
"The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person," he said. "I disgraced myself and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry. I have battled with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse."
Neither Gibson's publicist, Alan Nierob, nor the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department would comment on what Gibson said when he was arrested early Friday on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. Sheriff's Sgt. Rich Erickson declined to respond, saying the case was still under investigation.
They're trying to keep it out of the media, but it's too late, and other mainstream (not just blog) articles have detailed Mel's ravings. (With mentions about his
famously anti-semitic and a holocaust denying daddy.) Nothing Mel said surprises me. No, I didn't expect him to get busted for a DUI and start ranting, but I'm not surprised by what he said under the circumstances. I'm not letting him blame it on the booze either -- he blew a .12, which is 50% over the legal limit in California, but for an alcoholic, as Mel admits to being, that's hardly even tipsy.
Besides, he was drunk, not on LSD or something mind-altering. Booze loosens your lips and lowers your inhibitions; it doesn't make you say things completely different from what you actually believe. Well, it might make you say, "I love you." when that's not entirely true, but so does lust, and that's still legal (if not entirely safe) to drive while under the influence of.
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