It's weird enough to think that Ryan O'Neal was arrested for assault for firing a gun at his son Griffin O'Neal, who was apparently thrashing a metal fireplace poker around like a maniac – and that's without even knowing about the other tied-up O'Neal brother.
Gun-shooting and poker-swinging aside, the initial cause of the Ryan O'Neal vs Griffin O'Neal argument that ended up with Ryan being arrested for assault and Griffin's girlfriend being smashed in the eye with a fireplace poker hasn't yet been officially revealed. But now rumours are suggesting that all this Ryan O'Neal/ Griffin O'Neal gun-heavy hurly-burly began because Griffin laughed when Ryan tripped over the chain that was connecting Griffin's brother Redmond O'Neal to his staircase like a tethered dog. Obvious really.
There seems to be a case of diminishing returns within the O'Neal household. Ryan O'Neal, we all know, was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Love Story – something his son Griffin O'Neal conspicuously wasn't for his part in the movies Assault Of The Killer Bimbos and Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go To College. And then there's 22-year-old Redmond O'Neal – you'll be hearing more about him later – who has been a voice in The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars and nothing else. No wonder there's so much tension in the O'Neal family.
You know the tension we mean – the kind of tension that results in Ryan O'Neal going berserk with a gun during an argument with Griffin O'Neal and getting arrested for assault because of it. This moment of conflict still hasn't been resolved, as the war of words between Ryan O'Neal and Griffin O'Neal has proved, so we're surprised that it took this long for anyone to mention that Redmond O'Neal was apparently tied up like a dog throughout it all.
This is how the new story goes – Griffin O'Neal had entered Ryan O'Neal's house on Friday night to find Redmond O'Neal unresponsive. Fearing that Redmond had taken a drug overdose, Griffin allegedly chained him to the staircase, handcuffed his ankles together and called some paramedics – who came, listened to Redmond O'Neal tell them that he was just asleep, and left. But, just to make sure that Redmond didn't try buying any more drugs, the chains stayed on. Then Ryan O'Neal came back from a party celebrating that Farrah Fawcett hasn't got cancer any more, and that's where the trouble apparently started, as TMZ reports:
We're told when Ryan arrived home at 11, he tripped over the chain tied to Redmond and became enraged as Griffin laughed it off. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, they believe it was Ryan — not Griffin — who initially began swinging the fireplace poker. And these sources believe it was Ryan who struck Griffin's girlfriend before Griffin wrestled the poker away from his dad. Ryan's people strongly dispute this and claim Griffin was drunk and was the one who grabbed the poker first. We're told Ryan screamed "Get the fuck out of my house you asshole." Griffin and his girlfriend walked out, and we're told, for some reason, came back. It was then that Ryan fired a shot. When deputies arrived, they found Redmond still tethered and shot video to document it. They also shot video of Ryan's injuries.
OK – we're going to stick our neck out here and say that, if this is true, the fight between Ryan O'Neal and Griffin O'Neal has probably peaked in terms of weirdness now, unless Tatum O'Neal was upstairs performing a voodoo ritual to the music of Barry Manilow at the time as well. Poker-flailing and gun-firing we can handle, but brothers tied up like dogs? That's a step too far. Everyone knows little brothers need to be caged like bears and not tethered like dogs, and that's a lesson Ryan O'Neal and Griffin O'Neal need to take onboard for the next time they decide to do all sorts of mental embarrassing shit to each other.
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Lance K says
That’s true? if it is it’s so far beyond parody that I don’t know what to say