Not content with owning both a name that sounds better-suited to a feminine hygiene product and the smuggest face in modern cinema whilst appearing as the instantly-forgettable co-star of the most dismal and ill-advised films of recent times, Shia LaBeouf seems determined to also become known as Hollywood?s most ineffectual hell-raiser.
The star ? whose moody acting range consists of ?worried?, ?puzzled?, ?sleepy? and nothing else ? was slapped in handcuffs following an altercation in the early hours of Saturday morning at the Mad Bulls Tavern in Sherman Oakes, California.
Details are still sketchy, but we're pretty sure that if it's a low-key evening you're looking for, you're probably not going to find it in an establishment named ?The Mad Bulls?. Sources close to LaBeouf (ie: LaBeouf) state that the actor was jumped-on and ended up getting punched in the face.
The supposed assailant, Mark Mastro, tells a different story.
It's difficult to know who to believe, what with LaBeouf?s crazy past exploits, which include not leaving a chemists when asked (November 2007, charges dropped), smoking a cigarette (March 2008, charges dropped and? it wasn?t even cool to get busted for that when you were still in high school) and the drink-driving thing in July 2008 that wasn?t drink-driving but a boring-old normal car crash that wasn?t even his fault and has left him with a spazzed-up hand?
Shia LeBeouf is a shockingly poor hell-raiser.
As he tells it to radaronline.com, Mark Mastro was merely trying to get his picture taken with the actor and:
“He didn’t want anything to do with me,” says the college student. “He said he just wanted to chill and refused to do a photo. I walked away.”
Some time later:
“My friend said, ‘what’s up Shia’?” Mastro says. “Shia told him to ‘get the fuck out of my way.’ He was slurring his words.
“That’s when I said to my buddy, ‘don’t worry, he’s just a fucking faggot anyway’,” Mastro says.
“He turned around, cursed me out, and I started laughing.”
And then:
?He charged at me! I jumped over the patio fence onto the sidewalk to get away from him. But he kept coming after me.
“He was getting in my face. He was talking shit. He was chest-bumping me.”
At which point a bouncer stepped-in, handed LeBeouf over to the cops and Mastro left the premises without further incident. Although somewhere along the way LeBeouf got his bland little face all bashed-up.
So let that be a lesson to anyone who doubts that Shia LeBeouf is a crazy badass ? you don't want him ?chest-bumping? you like an enraged 10-year-old before bruising your knuckles with his face ? now, do you?
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