Shia LaBeouf Pleads Not Guilty To Smoking-Based Atrocity

Yesterday Shia LaBeouf was a fugitive on the run from the law, like Harrison Ford in that film Working Girl.

Not today, though - today Shia LaBeouf has faced his crimes like a man, like Harrison Ford in that film The Fugitive. Well, not 'faced his crimes' exactly - Shia LaBeouf has pleaded not guilty to the awful accusation that he smoked on a pavement once.

But at least Shia LaBeouf actually got around to entering a plea this time - up until that point he had an arrest warrant on his head for not tuning up to court at all. It's a stern lesson to all that you can't run from the law, no matter how adorably boyish your iddle widdle puppy dumpling cheeks are.

Nature isn't the only thing that abhors a vacuum - celebrity justice hates them equally as much. As soon as a celebrity - say, Phil Spector - finishes his court case, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills decide to get divorced. And if you were worried that you'd be strapped of celebrity court appearances until the OJ Simpson trial gets started, don't be - Shia LaBeouf has manfully stepped in to plug the void.

You see, although Shia LaBeouf might look like the sort of dungaree-wearing mischievous six-year-old who keeps a worm in a matchbox as a pet and has his own treehouse, in actual fact he's a court-hardened bastard. Shia LaBeouf got to being that way from living on the seedy underside of life where people don't think twice about politely refusing to leave a drugstore even though a security guard asked them nicely.

That's not the extent of Shia LaBeouf's badassery, though - earlier this week he failed to show up in court on an unlawful smoking charge and was hit with a full-blown arrest warrant as a result. But Shia LaBeouf scoffs in the face of arrest warrants. Shia LaBeouf cares not for puny arrest warrants, he tosses them aide like… oh, in actual fact Shia LaBeouf doesn't scoff at arrest warrants at all. Instead he quickly sends a lawyer to court to make everything all better. People reports:

A court commissioner in Burbank, Calif., recalled a $1,000 bench warrant Shia LaBeouf for on Wednesday after the actor's attorney arrived a day late to plead not guilty on LaBeouf's behalf to illegally smoking. LaBeouf, 21, was not in the courtroom when attorney Michael Norris entered the plea for the misdemeanor offense before Commissioner Kirkland Nyby. A pretrial hearing was set for April 24, says Superior Court rep Allan Parachini. 

Do you see that? Shia LaBeouf might have apologetically instructed a lawyer to get his arrest warrant ditched but he still pleaded not guilty to his unlawful smoking charge. Shia's so determined to fight the system that he's prepared to turn a routine five-second court appearance into an epic battle of multiple drawn-out court appearances and expensive legal fees. That's right Shia! Beat the man!

Sometimes we really wish we were American taxpayers, you know.

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