Can anyone tell me what Mel Gibson did to get himself in trouble?

Question

I know I could very easily look it up but I am being lazy. Was it drunk driving? What did he do?

Answer 1

Mel was stop for driving recklessly and for drunk driving and he also said some nasty things about the cop that pulled over dear old Mel. Mel basically called the arresting cop a dirty Jew. Apparently Mel Gibson's dad hates Jewish People; and I guess Mel has the same problem about Jewish People like his dad. Anyways Mel admits he has a drinking problem and apologized for driving very recklessly after having to much to drink. As for calling the cop a Dirty Jew, Mel never apologized about that one.
Is Mel Gibson an anti-Semite? Until his recent drunk-driving arrest, the only way to investigate that hypothesis was to study Gibson's controversial 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ, or to puzzle out why Gibson, in an interview with Peggy Noonan for Reader's Digest, declined to put any distance between himself and his father's crackpot view that the Holocaust never occurred. "[I]f someone denies the Holocaust one day and makes a film accusing Jews of Christ-killing the next day," my Slate colleague Christopher Hitchens reasoned, "I have to say that if he's not anti-Jewish then he's certainly getting there." There remained at least a theoretical possibility that this was all just a terrible misunderstanding.

That possibility no longer exists. The best case that can be made for Gibson's belief system now is that he's only anti-Semitic when he's three sheets to the wind. And really, now. Are you in the habit of declaring, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world" when you get pie-eyed? Or simply of muttering, "******* Jews"? Or of asking your arresting officer, "Are you a Jew?" (Here Gibson revealed an anti-Jewish bigotry so all-consuming that he couldn't even get his ethnic stereotypes straight. The Jews control international banking, Mel. It's the Irish who control the police.)

For good measure, Gibson turned on a policewoman observing his meltdown and said, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar ****?"


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We know all this because TMZ.com, a celebrity-gossip site, obtained some pages of the police report for Gibson's arrest and (bless its heart) posted them online. The Los Angeles Times subsequently confirmed the pages' authenticity. Before Gibson's outbursts were made public, according to TMZ.com, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department was pressuring the arresting officer, Sheriff's Deputy James Mee, to eliminate from his report Gibson's specific remarks on the grounds that they would "incite Jewish hatred" at a time when conditions in the Middle East were "way too inflammatory." (Yes, our nation's foreign policy is apparently run by California flatfoots.) According to the LA Times, the Sheriff's civilian oversight board will now investigate whether a cover-up was attempted. Gibson, for his part, issued the following apology:

After drinking alcohol on Thursday night, I did a number of things that were very wrong and for which I am ashamed. I drove a car when I should not have, and was stopped by the L.A. County sheriff's. The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person.

I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable. I am deeply ashamed of everything I said and I apologize to anyone who I have offended.

Also, I take this opportunity to apologize to the deputies involved for my belligerent behavior. They have always been there for me in my community and indeed probably saved me from myself. I disgraced myself and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry.

I have battled the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse. I apologize for any behavior unbecoming of me in my inebriated state and have already taken necessary steps to ensure my return to health.

http://www.slate.com/id/2146842

Answer 2

Drink Driving. He was 1 1/2 times over the limit. Pretty irresponsible especially if he'd killed someone. Being famous does not give you the right to break the law. Problem is that he'll probably receive a fine and be banned for a year. No problem to people like him. I believe that if you're too poor to pay a fine or so rich that it doesn't affect you then you should be given community service like cleaning up graffiti or helping out poor people (Soup kitchen on the docks during the night would be good)

Answer 3

Mel gibson in Braveheart I liked Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense and the Story of us.

Answer 4

Yes, DUI. Here's link for his statement.

Answer 5

He got pulled over in Malibu for suspected DUI and then got into a verbal fight with the police (more evidence that he was drunk).

Answer 6

He is battling alcoholism. Any recovering alcoholic will have a relapse. He has apologised he knows he did the wrong thing.

Answer 7

DUI charge

Answer 8

drunk driving,maybe his trying out for a new film.called ."would drunks go to heaven'he gets sleazier as he gets older.from mikhal in israel.

Answer 9

DUI charge.

Answer 10

Yes, it was drunk driving, he was probably on the way to church.