Remember that little accident Shia LaBeouf was involved in last July, where he was involved in a wreck which flipped his truck, sent he and his buddies to the hospital, and resulted in his arrest for DUI?  (And remember when he was arrested at a Chicago Walgreens?  And that little smoking incident?)  Well, even though he was found not at fault in the accident, the actor has still lost his driver’s license for a year because he refused to blow into the tube:

The suspension, which took effect January 17, 2009, is the result of LaBeouf’s “refusal of chemical tests” in the wake of his accident, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

The suspension will last a minimum of one year.

In September, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announced there was “insufficient evidence” to charge the “Transformers” with drunken driving for his involvement in the accident, which left his hand badly injured.

The actor was arrested for suspicion of DUI following the crash after showing “physical signs” of being impaired, LA Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Steve Whitmore previously said.

However, at the time, the DA’s office did note LaBeouf’s refusal to take a breathalyzer test could result in a suspension of his license.

Sheriff’s deputies said later that LaBeouf was not at fault in the accident.

Well, couldn’t he have just been loopy from the crash or perhaps had an inner ear infection that threw off his sense of balance, I hear Shia fans crying?  Uhm, maybe not:

Actor Shia LaBeouf was at the Troubadour club watching the Lemon Son band on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A. Saturday night, a source tells Usmagazine.com.

“He was dancing around and acting really crazy,” the source tells Us. “He kept doing shots of whiskey.

“He stayed until the band was done and then stumbled out of the club by himself,” the witness reported.

Shia has recently disclosed that, just like eating potato chips, he has trouble stopping at one:

Over a three-month period in the past year, LaBeouf got into a series of entanglements with the law. Last November, he walked into a Chicago Walgreens to buy cigarettes, had a drunken argument with a security guard, and was arrested for trespassing after refusing to leave the store. In February, he was cited for smoking a cigarette on public property in Burbank, California. A few weeks later an arrest warrant was issued when he failed to appear in court for that charge. “I don’t ever remember getting arrested sober. I was always arrested drunk,” he says. “It’s when I’m drinking that I don’t have the wherewithal to be able to realize the position of my life. There’s too much at stake for me to throw it away. I enjoy what I’m able to give my family. I enjoy the people that I’m able to wake up and work with. And I don’t want to throw away what I’ve worked so hard for 12 years to achieve, based on an argument that takes place in 20 minutes.” [...]

The script rarely gets away from LaBeouf. It got away from him in Chicago last November, when a late-night nicotine jones ended in that trespassing charge. (”It was two hotheads,” he says, “one completely in the wrong, one who wasn’t enjoying his job that night, going at it about minuscule bullsh*t.”) And the glee with which the mainstream news media, itching for a YOUNG ACTOR FLAMES OUT headline, seized on it led to the end of one of his and his father’s longtime bonding rituals. “We would drink together and smoke together,” LaBeouf says, “and it’s just a bad deal. It’s not something that is conducive to being a role model—no iconic actors that I know of have problems like that. And I don’t know how to do it like a gentleman. I don’t know how to have one drink.”

If it sounds like an actor struggling to stay in character, it may be. “I mean, look, you get arrested, it’s out of control. There’s nothing ‘in control’ about the situation,” he says. “It’s not as though things happen to me and I don’t say, never again.” But LaBeouf concedes that sticking to the straight-and-narrow is easier said than done. “I can never say never, because of where I’m at in my life and the vices that I’ve let go of,” he says. “But even when I was drinking, I never missed call times, ever.”

I mean, if you’re going to be arrested anyway for DUI, why not go ahead and blow and get it over with?  But, I guess critical thinking skills aren’t at their strongest when you’re drunk.

This is a young guy, early twenties.  He doesn’t have to succumb to the temptations of young Hollywood (or even old Hollywood).  He is still in the early stages of what is shaping up to be a promising career.  I sincerely hope that he has people around him who will take him aside and tell him that if he doesn’t watch it now, he’s going to throw the whole thing right down the toilet if he keeps up his past bad behavior.  That last quote bothers me, however.

It doesn’t have to have an unhappy ending, though.  Hopefully this will be a wake-up call for Shia, and he will use this to keep himself clean and sober from now on.  It’s hard, but it can be done, and I hope that Shia decides that he is worth the effort.

Source: k