Haley Joel Osment is in big trouble

[Fleshdancer]

I see stupid people...

http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1228487,00.html

Sixth Sense star Haley Joel Osment has been charged with three misdemeanors including driving under the influence, the Los Angeles district attorney said on Thursday.

Osment's blood-alcohol content in the July 20 incident was double the legal limit (at 0.16), Jane Robinson, a spokeswoman for the D.A., tells PEOPLE.

The 18-year-old actor crashed his 1995 Saturn last month at around 1 a.m. near Los Angeles. Osment lost control of his car, hit a mailbox on a brick base and flipped over, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Greg Sisneros said at the time.

Osment was also charged for possession of marijuana while driving and being under the age of 21 and driving with a .05 percent blood alcohol content, according to Deputy District Attorney Ed Green.

[Skittles]

1. he is lucky he did not kill himself or someone else

I hope he gets a handle on his drinking habits

[bigwillq]

2. That poor kid is experiencing the typical

Hollywood kid syndrome. I hope he can clean up his act.

[Raydawg1234]

14. Drinking and smoking pot is not typical for hollywood kids, it's typical

for all kids of this age. If anything, Haley Joel Osment is normal. This kid just happens to be a celebrity.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. It's so sad when successful actors are driving 1995 Saturns.

It's also sad that Haley did this - I've really liked his films, and I had sincere hope that he would be one of the rare ones who defeat the curse of the child actors. Maybe not. Very sad.

[dolo amber]

4. He drives a '95 Saturn?

No wonder he was drinkin'.

[huskerlaw]

12. That's what I was thinkin'!

Hell, my car is better than that (barely) and I'm trading the damn thing in...and I've never been paid millions of dollars for anything.

[ForrestGump]

5. Not good. When he was younger, he got away with playing Little

Forrest. Now he's heading for more like Little Mel... :-(

[Chan790]

6. Oh geez

This is hardly worse than the crap that most of us did at 18 except that he's famous.

[WCGreen]

7. Really....

I spent a night in jail for DWI when I was 18....

[Fleshdancer]

9. I can proudly say I've never flipped a car before

and at 18 I knew not to drink and drive.

[ForrestGump]

13. Yeah. It's a fair bit worse than what I did at 18

or since.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. Yeah, I'm with you.

I can't blame it on him being a child actor, because this sounds like normal 18 year old behavior to me...right down to the '95 Saturn.

[HughBeaumont]

8. Dana Barrymore Part DCLXVI

I mean, isn't this pretty damned desperately cliche by now? Yes, entertainment's a shit business, especially for child actors. Not many can successfully make the transition into adult parts, because retaining the cuteness factor that drew millions towards you in the first place is difficult amid the Hollyweird distractions and temptations. I mean, it's either NO one is watching over these kids and making sure they're not making bad life choices and not eeny-meeny-miney-mo-ing scripts like Haley's people obviously have been doing since The Sixth Sense and A.I., or they are and he's just choosing to be a fuck-up on his own. Who can tell?

[nini]

10. Trouble? yes.... BIG trouble? no

for his age, record and the fact those are misdemeanors... not so big. He'll be fined, maybe some community service and AA meetings. But I doubt more.


BIG trouble is a felony or multiple misdemeanors.

[rustydog]

15. Who does he think he is? George Bush, Mel Gibson?

[Placebo]

16. Fucking little punk.

Throw the book at him! Charge him for attempted manslaughter or something, too.

[bertha katzenengel]

17. Child stars.

Some turn out fine. See Jodie Foster.

Others just can't handle it. What is it: they're not taught the usual disciplines? I'm sure it's a bunch of other things but I think they all go back to that one.

Maybe. What the hell do I know?

I really hope this kid can get his act together.

[LostinVA]

26. He has been raised as a normal kid by normal parents

I just think this is one of those stupid, dangerous things young men and women sometimes do. Lots of people I knew in college got DUIs (these didn't technically "exist" when I was in HS).

[Evoman]

18. Since when is driving drunk, getting into an accident, and being caught

with possession of marijuana at eighteen normal? Did you guys drive drunk when you were kids? I never fucking did that...you should all thank your stars that you never killed anyone.

[liberaltrucker]

19. Yes, I did

And I do.

:blush:

[elperromagico]

22. I drove drunk at 18...

through the Streets of Sim City.

Man, I killed a lot of cows.

[Chan790]

23. Well, two of three

I definitely got into accidents (sober) and I never got caught doing anything illegal. As for driving drunk...no, not drunk. I was lucky to live in the city and have taxis at my disposal if I was too hammered to get home safely.

My point was that it's non-irregular juvenile behavior for an 18 year old. If he was still doing it at 25, I'd be concerned. It's troublesome but it's not that troublesome. It's ground the kid, take the bedroom door off the hinges and take away his licence bad, not criminal bad.

[hyphenate]

25. It happened

in my family. My brother was 18 when he was in a car accident with 4 others. The driver was 16, had drank a whole bottle of vodka, couldn't control the car, and flipped it. The car continued on skidding on its roof for about 80 feet, hit the curb and reflipped over again. The roof came off like a can opener had sliced it.

The driver was decapitated, the front seat passenger had a broken neck, my brother in the back had multiple breaks and massive head trauma (he's been in a wheelchair now for 28 years and has significant brain damage), the guy in the middle had his spleen removed and has never quite been right in the head since, and the other kid in the back had a broken collarbone.

Back then, 18 was the legal drinking age.

I wouldn't go after and deride Haley Joel Osment for what happened, but I would hope at the very least that the experience taught him something before something worse happened. The fact that he was not driving a sports car kind of sticks in my mind that he was driving something "sensible" at the very least! (Actually, if I recall, the car was his mom's.)

[Catshrink]

20. One of my former students was DUI and paralyzed himself

last weekend. He had a football scholarship and now his ability to walk again is in question. We are all in shock.

[elperromagico]

21. Hell, I thought he was permanently 12.

[pinniped]

24. Too cheap to hire a cab?

Revoke his DL for a year and make him pick up trash on the LA freeways.

Little prepubescent punk.

[LostinVA]

27. He isn't a little "punk"

By all accounts he's a really nice kid. He isn't Linday Lohan, et al. He made a stupid, dangerous mistake that luckily killed no one. He should pay for his mistake... but every single one of us has done something stupid and probably dangerous... and we weren't punks. We just screwed up.

[xchrom]

28. gasp!!! an eighteen year old behaved recklessly?!?!

imagine that.:eyes: