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Mel Gibson does deal on DUI
Life Style UK ^ | 18 August 2006

Posted on 08/18/2006 9:59:50 AM PDT by Hal1950

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Mel Gibson has escaped jail after pleading guilty to drunk driving.

The 'Mad Max' star agreed a plea bargain with prosecutors on Thursday (17.08.06) and in return was given three years probation, ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and told to enrol in an alcohol abuse programme for three months.

Mel - who was also fined $1,300 and had his driving license restricted for 90 days - was arrested on July 28 after being pulled over on Pacific Coast Highway, in Maui, for speeding.

He then launched into an anti-Semitic tirade, during which he allegedly said: "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

Afterwards, the 50-year-old actor profusely apologised for his comments.

Mel said: "I acted like a persson 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 apologise to anyone who I have offended."

Mel - who signed the plea agreement and waived his right to a jury trial on Monday (14.08.06) - did not appear in court for the hearing. His lawyer Blair Berk entered the plea on his behalf.

Malibu's deputy district attorney Gina Satriano said in a statement: "This was an appropriate outcome which addresses all the public safety concerns of drinking and driving."


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1 posted on 08/18/2006 9:59:51 AM PDT by Hal1950
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To: Hal1950

Everyone is offered that "deal" for a first offense.


2 posted on 08/18/2006 10:01:02 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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To: Hal1950

Will he have to make a PSA Film about drinking and driving called "The Last Temptation of Otis ?"


3 posted on 08/18/2006 10:01:13 AM PDT by Perdogg (Democrats = terrorists)
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To: Hal1950

Not much of a deal if you ask me. My first drunk driving arrest only got me a year of probation and less than $1000 in fines.


4 posted on 08/18/2006 10:01:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: Hal1950

Too bad he wasn't arrested in Durham, NC. The gal who says she was raped by the Duke Lacrosse team stole a taxi, drove through two counties at high speed, tried to run over a policeman, and blew twice the legal limit. She got a misdemeanor.

Of course she has a special relationship with the Durham D.A.


5 posted on 08/18/2006 10:02:46 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Hal1950

What were Oliver Stone's 'deals'?


6 posted on 08/18/2006 10:03:50 AM PDT by RushCrush (I like pit bulls better than Democrats.)
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To: Hal1950

I have always had a lot of respect for Mel Gibson. I always saw him as a strong conservative and family man and a good Catholic. He always stood out as an anachronism (along with people like Bruce Willis, Dennis Hopper and a few others) in that putrid city. But with this incident it seems like he is really not much different from the rest of that wretched refuse. Sorry Mel, you just made the list as far as I am concerned.


7 posted on 08/18/2006 10:05:18 AM PDT by stm (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
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To: P-Marlowe

That's right. Now watch them try to blow this out as a sweet deal for a celebrity. It isn't. It's par for the course.

Entertainment tonight should be milking this for all it's worth this evening.


8 posted on 08/18/2006 10:06:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
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To: Hal1950

"after being pulled over on Pacific Coast Highway, in Maui, for speeding."

Note to the Brits: Maui is an island in Hawaii. MALIBU is a community in California, near the PCH. I know, the spelling is really close. :P


9 posted on 08/18/2006 10:07:38 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: stm
Give me a break, he is a man - not a saint. Im sure everyone we know and respect in life has some sort of skeleton in the closet that no one knows about - in the case of Mel we know everything about him because the media loves to beat the man up. What he did was wrong - and he should and will seek treatment - what more can you ask? What does the bible tell us? Everyone has a cross to bare in life? His cross is that he is an alcoholic and should try to rid himself of this.
10 posted on 08/18/2006 10:10:45 AM PDT by cdnerds (cdnerds.com)
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To: PreciousLiberty

They could also use a little spelling help. "enrol?"


11 posted on 08/18/2006 10:17:39 AM PDT by JRjr (hMMM?)
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To: Hal1950; P-Marlowe; cripplecreek; DoughtyOne

I don't know if Gibson has priors on the record, but he has confessed publicly to having driven drunk before this incident. He was also going something like 87 mph for this one. He clearly has a long term problem, totally apart from his sick rant. On top of this, he had plenty of opportunity to get a cab when people at the bar suggested that, and he can also afford to have himself chauffered around in a limo that waits for him while he gets drunk in bars -- an option not available to most people.

I think he got off obscenely easy -- the idea that he'll be fine to get behind the wheel again 3 months from now is just insane. Obviously he has to kill someone before the courts will do anything to stop him. And yes, appallingly, this is "par for the course", and not just for celebrities.


12 posted on 08/18/2006 10:17:48 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Hal1950
In other news the kid that that played with Bruce Willis in "The Sixth Sense", Haley Joel Osment was arrested for marijuana posession and DUI (he blew over .15).

I see drunk people!

13 posted on 08/18/2006 10:17:56 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (This space for rent.)
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To: Perdogg
"The Last Temptation of Otis ?"

LOL...

14 posted on 08/18/2006 10:18:37 AM PDT by RJL
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Remember Patrick Kennedy?


15 posted on 08/18/2006 10:21:43 AM PDT by hdstmf
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To: ladyjane

Really? When was this? I hadn't heard/read of it.


16 posted on 08/18/2006 10:23:22 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: cdnerds

If it was just the DUI thing that would be one thing. I would be a hypocrite if I said I have never driven over the limit, I have, though I do not any more. Fortunately I have never been stopped. But his outbursts, assault on a police officer(s) and anti-semitic rhetoric was inexcusable. That's the kind of stuff Sean Penn, Johnny Dope, Martin Sheen and others do. I expected a lot more out of Mel Gibson.


17 posted on 08/18/2006 10:23:43 AM PDT by stm (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
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To: theDentist

Here is a link to the Haley Joel Osment story:
http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-08-18/


18 posted on 08/18/2006 10:27:39 AM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Well a drunk person is thinking correctly so not calling a cab is understandable however I agree that is pretty scary to think that a confessed alcoholic only gets 90 days and no other restrictions?
A huge percentage of automobile accidents are caused by drinking drivers
It doesn't say he has to drop for a alcohol test for a certain period of time either but that may be part of the plea also?
19 posted on 08/18/2006 10:27:46 AM PDT by apackof2 (They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
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To: Hal1950
He then launched into an anti-Semitic tirade, during which he allegedly said: "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

So how come you can allegedly say something without allegedly launching into a tirade?
20 posted on 08/18/2006 10:28:42 AM PDT by yevgenie (Q. What is the first sign of AIDS? A. A pounding sensation in the ass.)
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