When I get drunk I’m known to make flippant remarks. Nothing too embarrassing. Sometimes an apology is required. To date, I’ve never become so unhinged as to ask a cop: “What do you think you’re looking at, sugar tits?“, but I’m still young.
A blitzed Mel Gibson launched into an obscenity-laced tirade when he was busted on suspicion of drunken driving early yesterday, threatening an officer and making anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks, according to a police report.
The “Passion of the Christ” director repeatedly said, “My life is f—-d,” according to the report by Los Angeles County Deputy James Mee, which was obtained by TMZ.com. The celebrity news Web site posted excerpts of the handwritten report.
Gibson, 50, was pulled over for speeding at 3:10 a.m. on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif., cops said. The Oscar-winning “Braveheart” star and director was driving 80 mph when he was snared by a radar trap, sheriff’s deputies said. The speed limit in that area is 45 mph to 55 mph.
Gibson failed both alcohol breath and field sobriety tests, deputies said. His blood-alcohol level was .12, Deputy Anthony Moore said. The legal limit is .08 in California.
According to the incident report obtained by TMZ.com, the Road Warrior embarked on a belligerent, anti-Semitic outburst when he realized he had been busted.
“F—–g Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” Mee’s report quotes him as saying.
“Are you a Jew?” Gibson asked the deputy, according to the report.
The actor also berated the deputy, threatening, “You motherf—-r. I’m going to f— you,” according to Mee’s report.
The actor also told the cop he “owns Malibu” and would spend all his money “to get even with me,” Mee said in his report.
TMZ quoted a law enforcement source as saying Gibson noticed a female sergeant on the scene and yelled at her, “What do you think you’re looking at, sugar t–s?”
Deputy Mee then wrote an eight-page report detailing of the incident, but higher-ups in the sheriff’s department felt it was too “inflammatory” to release and would merely serve to incite “Jewish hatred,” TMZ said.
Reached for comment on TMZ’s report last night, Deputy Moore said the department would neither deny nor confirm its content. He could offer no explanation for why Mee’s report was withheld from reporters.
I’ve come to the conclusion that if someone makes a grand display of their piety that the chances are very strong that they are a deeply immoral and disturbed individual.
Of course, Jesus said the same thing:
1 “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
3 But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
5 “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
7 In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
8 Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
9 Pray like this:’Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Sugar tits and Jews? What an idiot! Just another feather in the heavily flocked slightly personality disordered cap of the Christian right these days.
It must be one of those charming Aussie terms of endearment.
Actually, he’s all American. Growing up in Australia doesn’t change that fact.
It’s interesting that you say he was in Australia at age 12 on. The most formative years are 0-5. He had plenty of time to become a sexist bigot before going down under.
This whole story just confirms my choice in boycotting anything that guy does. I used to watch anything he ever did with gusto but ever since passion came out I just had the feeling that the guy was bad news.
Maybe it’s saying something something very bad about me but I just can’t seperate the man from the actor. I had the same problem back when I found out Arnold was a sexist ass, also. I simply couldn’t enjoy his movies anymore.
the harder they fall…
i thought that was ‘the harder the come’, but after watching Dr. Phil yesterday I realize that some people have trouble saying words like cockpit and cheese nips because they have a sexual connotation. Evidently, Mel Gibson is not one of those people.
I think “the bigger they are” is the older saying; “the harder they come” was, I guess, Jimmy Cliff’s variation.
Your comment reminds me of a time when I was working in a bookstore that carried a lot of very raunchy magazines (far beyond Playboy or Hustler). We had a very sweet, Christian woman working there whose job entailed, occasionally, unpacking these and putting them on the shelf. She never complained, but it obviously made her pretty uncomfortable (more so than the rest of us) so we tried to find someone else to do it whenever possible.
Anyway, so she was down on her knees in the aisle unpacking these things one day and a 13-year-old (or so) boy comes up to her and asks, “Do you have any Moorcock books?”
Cashier (nervously): “Wh — what?”
Boy (enunciating each syllable): “Moorcock. Do you have any Moor – cock books?”
Cashier (very flustered at this point): “What is it you want?”
At this point the store manager, who’d been observing this with some amusement, stepped in and said, “I think he’s looking for Michael Moorcock, right? Down the left wall in science fiction.” The boy, who had been getting a bit flustered himself due to the cashier’s response, headed off in relief.
The cashier was able to laugh about it afterward. “I’m so ashamed of myself for what I thought that little boy was asking for…”
There used to be a Christian bookstore in Media, PA (a suburb of Philly) called “The Salty Fisherman”. The name gave me a good laugh every time I passed by — it sounded like an “adult” Christian bookstore!
…with a blood alcohol content of .12 – I wonder what he would have said if he was REALLY drunk.
Shoe-car tee-ates? <slurred slowly, of course, like with gravel in your mouth> LOL!
Well, I don’t know. If Mel had just fallen off the wagon after a long hiatus I could understand it.
.12 would be enough to get me nice and loqacious, I’ll tell ya, since I don’t drink at all.
According to Richard Thompson, at least. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure God doesn’t think much of holier-than-thou rich belligerent assholes.
are the anti-Semitic remarks. Not that I don’t have a problem with ‘sugar tits,’ but Gibson kept on saying anti-Jew stuff far more.
If he’s anti-Jew, no doubt he’s got a problem with people of color and with women.
No wonder we never hear from his wife and children. Has she or they ever been a part of his drunken tears?
The last time he was stopped for drinking was in 1984. Supposedly Tina Turner during Mad Max: Thunderdome persuaded him to stop.
I heard too that he caused thousands of dollars of damage to a house where he was staying on Toronto while filming Mrs. Soffel. And that he was found soused out of his gourd with two women in bed. Of course, that was then. We don’t know much about what he’s been doing since, except that he feels that he has the right to screw and get drunk all over town regardless of whether he’s said marriage vows and wears a ring.
His life is fucked, alright. The cops should have allowed him to pee on himself, and to treat him without kid gloves.
This ought to erase any doubt as to whether the movie’s anti-Semitism was only in the eye of the beholder.
I bought a DVD player just so I could play two DVD movies I wanted, which I bought at the same time: Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 and Gibson’s Passion of the Christ. The former I’ve watched quite a few times. The latter is powerful, but I’ve never felt a desire to see it a second time.
I used to be pretty strongly on the side that argued that the movie isn’t anti-Jewish. For instance, the Sanhedrin Jews in the movie, who are said to be so stereotypically Jewish, are all played by Italians, since the movie was mainly filmed in Italy. I thought the movie was pretty faithful to the Gospel accounts, showing some Jews as noble and others as ignoble.
However, after Gibson’s deranged outburst last night, I have a hard time disagreeing with you.
His father is said to be a rabid Holocaust-denier. Obviously a lot of that rubbed off. What an asshole.
I’ve had my own share of relapses and regretted comments, but I’ve darn sure never blown up like that, and as some have said, it’s hard to imagine doing that at .12! What comes out of the mouth when a person is drunk is the real inner truth. Gibson will never be able to live this down.
i gotta give you a ‘4’ for that. It shocked me to see that.
I had pretty much (naively) thought we were done with anti-semtism here in America, particularly with our blind devotion to Israel. Then this happens and shows me up for the ignoramous I am. *pfft*
I’m surprised he didn’t manage to throw in any anti-gay remarks or words-as he’s been known for that also.
I’m also curious why the police dept. has refused to release his booking photo, that’s usually just standard operating procedure to release celebs mug shots.
I’m so glad I decided not to like him after PASSION came out.
Two plus hours of a half naked, nice looking Jewish kid getting the snot beaten out of him?
And kids were encouraged to go see it?
I have been getting the impression that antisemitism is in fact on the rise throughout the world and here in the U.S. Between left-wing bloggers, right-wing old antisemites, a terrorist (connected or unconnected) at the Seattle Jewish Federation or what have you, I get the idea that everybody in the country is reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion when I am reading the sports pages.
Funny BooMan. Sounds like Mel’s got some problems. Hope he gets help. Wasn’t Mel’s dad a fan of the rabid anti Semite Father Coughlin?
Hey, when I drank, I didn’t say no really crazy shit till I was at least .15 alchohol level. But .12? That’s only the equivalent roughly of seven shots – what a wuss!
As far as "What do you think you’re looking at..sugar tits?" Well hey, that was always a real lady pleaser for me. I’m sure it’s what endeared me to my wife, leading to her loving and eventually marrying me.
Man, I’m glad I ain’t him today.