Mel Gibson's kids - turns out the apples don't fall too far from the tree

[LynneSin]

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

ugust 8, 2006 -- EVEN before Mel Gibson's drunken driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade last week, not all residents of Malibu were happy to call their home "Melibu."

Gibson and his wife, Robyn, let some of their seven children roam the tony beach suburb north of Los Angeles unsupervised, and the kids "terrorize" the neighborhood, according to two residents.

One local tells us that Gibson's kids, a daughter, 26, and six sons ranging in age from 7 to 24, "are the holy terrors of Malibu. They do whatever they want.

According to one story repeated by neighbors, Gibson's high-school sons tried to buy two kayaks from a surf shop and demanded the store put them on credit. When told the family didn't have an account there, a source says, "They got very angry and started shouting, 'Don't you know who we are?' " (Staffers at Zuma Jay's and the Malibu Surf Shack, the two kayak stores in Malibu, say they don't recall such an incident.)

Malibu resident Shari Nassimi also finds the Gibson spawn wayward, but in an unspecified way. In a letter to the editor of Surf Rider News, Nassimi writes, "If Mr. Gibson would only pay attention to his own family and children, have had issues of their own . . . he would perpetuating what he points to in others as evil.

[Fountain79]

1. Personally...

I could care less about his "kids" and I use quotes because a couple of these kids are adults. I'm 26 what I do is a reflection of me not my dad. This is just pure tabloid nonsense.

[Sannum]

2. agreed

The shit that I have done has nothing to do with my parents. I woudn't want it to be in the tabloids either. His kids are private people. Leave them alone.

[idgiehkt]

3. "in an unspecified way"

that LTTE is hysterical. how did it get published? did it beat all the competition?

[AngryAmish]

4. This was really low

Leave his kids out of it.

[ohiosmith]

5. The Surf Rider News is a fucking coupon flier. I guess they added

a LTTE page since I left So. Cal.

[treestar]

6. Movie stars' kids are all going to tend to be spoiled like that

Nothing real surprising here.

I expected at least an accusation of anti-semitism.

The interesting thing here is that Mel's anti-semitic comments are somehow not enough to condemn him, and the reporter here seems to need to prop up his demonization with bad kids.