Gibson Charged With DUI

Gibson: Charges filedThe Los Angeles County District Attorney has charged actor Mel Gibson with misdemeanor Driving Under the Influence. The offense carries a maximum sentence of 6 months in county jail. Gibson was also charged with driving while having a .08 blood alcohol level or higher. And the actor was charged with possession of an open container of alcohol while driving.

TMZ was the first to report that Gibson was arrested early Friday morning while driving on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif. He allegedly tried to flee the scene.

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16. Bravo to TMZ for getting the real police report! If it wasn't for TMZ this guy probably would have denied making any racist comments at all!

Posted at 5:48PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Larry

17. Молодец Gibson - лучший Mad Max всех времён и народов!

http://zvezdochot.livejournal.com/56997.html

Posted at 5:49PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Zvezdoch?t

18. Mel Gibson is not the first celebrity to have been arrested for DUI nor is he the first celebrity to have put his foot in his mouth with comments - WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL HERE???????

Posted at 5:49PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Cheri

19. I had always thought him to be a good and sincere actor. I admired him as a man.
He gets drunk and his true nature and beliefs come out and it is disgusting. Mel is a bigot of the worst kind.. He is not a true Christian. I'm sure he is sorry for what hhe said. He sorry that people know what a mean and disgusting man he is.

Posted at 5:50PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by James Foster

20. Mel's comments were out of line - but why is it that other celebrities can bash Christians and the media is silent???
Should not all be called out for intolerance towards others?

Posted at 5:59PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Carl

21. Sounds like hollywood is scared that mel gibson used his own $$
Produced a movie and was VERY successfull
Millions and Millions still went to see that movie even though
hollywood tried to make mel gibson look like a demon

Build them up and knock them down

Won't work this time

He has too many supporters including myself



GO MEL GO MEL GO MEL GO MEL GO MEL GO MEL GO MEL

Steve

Posted at 5:59PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by steve

22. Mel will get jail time, when pigs fly! Question: Are there any kosher pigs in hollywood?

Posted at 6:02PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by EZ

23. Well I think Mel Got enough bad publicity.
Did you know that Gibson's 'Apocalypto' still comes out on december 8 ;-)

Dutch TMZ fan : Westley
http://www.westley.nl

Posted at 6:03PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Westley

24. Can anyone identify the shirt that Mel is wearing in his mug shot? It looks like a nice shirt and I'd like to track one down.

Posted at 6:08PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Portnoy

25. This whole thing has me and others wondering, it is almost like a movie. First Mel is arrested, then he does everything politically correct, he checks himself into rehab, apologizes and asks for help from the Jewish leaders, everything is done PC. And then instead of the PC crowd forgiving Mel, they want his head on a platter. There is more to this story then we are being told! Personally I think old Mel knew exactly what he was doing its almost as if he wanted to expose the Hollywood crowd and the PCers for the hyprocrites they truly are. No, there is definetly more to this story, the ignorant in Hollywood can believe what they want, but there is definetly more than we are being told.

Posted at 6:13PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by John Rohner

26. TMZ was the first to report that Gibson was arrested early Friday morning while driving on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif.
Yes TMZ in every Mel Gibson report you have let us know you were the first. Now be the first to be a grown up and stop with these Mel Gibson reports every 15 minutes. Will you also report that Mel Gibson is just a man like any man and is entitled to make mistakes and let's move on.
All in all TMZ you are doing a great job.

Posted at 6:16PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by gwen

27. As America is a country of freedom of speech , you shouldnt be afraid of personal opinions , but because the jews in the USA want to take Mel Gibson down and blow off his carreer. What is this anti-semit thing , who will proove that the jews who came from the desert and invaded the land of cannaan are semite , they stole everything from other civilisations.
"Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race..."
"The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity." (Essai sur le Moeurs)

"You seem to me to be the maddest of the lot. The Kaffirs, the Hottentots, and the Negroes of Guinea are much more reasonable and more honest people than your ancestors, the Jews. You have surpassed all nations in impertinent fables in bad conduct and in barbarism. You deserve to be punished, for this is your destiny." (From a letter to a Jew who had written to him, complaining of his 'anti-Semitism.' Examen des Quelques Objections...dans L'Essai sur le Moeurs.)

Posted at 6:21PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by joe (an anti jew)

28. there are a lot of people, including myself, who DO NOT want to hate anyone but NOTICE the actions of Jews. while pseudo-intellectual witch hunters like the ADL deflect revisionist history and revisionist biblical record to favor Israel, they BLIND THE MASSES by singling out and persecuting ONE PERSON in the media – today it’s Gibson.

you guys are killing hundreds of INNOCENT CIVILIANS in Lebanon and have been doing so for years in the Gaza, murdering in the name of God (promised land that was delivered to you and lost a long, long time ago!) how is that kind of country-establishing halal? your neighbors will always hate you and true Christians see that it is not beneath you to use Christian soldiers and blood to establish your zionist ambitions - an organization more devious and sinister than any Hamas or Hezbollah.

can i tell you who are holy people? MONKS: like Tibetan monks, Christian monks. YOU BARTER MORALITY and want to hide behind laws that prohibit people from stopping you from orchestrating false disasters to blame on Arabs. you get away with murder by calling people anti-semites if they speak out against your actions. how do you explain getting away with the numerous UN violations, illegal weapons pileup and the money laundering of the American charities to funnel to Israel. Isn’t raping South Africans from their diamond mines enough?

as for the apostate Christianity here in American - let them not fool the Muslim or European Christian - you are misguided, lost and puppets for the puppeteers. You speak before educating yourselves – the most dangerous kind of all – the uneducated advocate. Life is not a football game to just root for the home team. You need to understand right and wrong.

Posted at 6:25PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by soonenough

29. Four Mel Gibson related stories today. TMZ, this is really making me tiresome. Slow work day?

Posted at 6:25PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Jessica

30. I dont really think is an anti-simite, the man was drunk and somehow realized the officer was jew, so he just tried to offend the police officer with the nearest rubbish he could think.

Posted at 6:26PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Paul

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