Shia LaBeouf Handcuffed After Bar Brawl

By Christine Fenno Posted Feb 6th 2011 09:31AM

Shia LaBeouf, 24, had to be cuffed and detained by cops last night (around 1AM Sunday), after a fight broke out at a Los Angeles bar. A bouncer reportedly restrained the actor in a head lock on the scene before police intervened. No arrests were made.

As reported by RadarOnline, the 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' star was hanging at Mad Bull's Tavern, with an entourage of more than a dozen buddies, when an angry exchange with a patron occurred on the bar's sidewalk patio out front.

A witness says "the guy" called LaBeouf "f**got," after which the actor reportedly lunged to initiate a physical fight and immediately got punched. A squad car driving by the chaotic scene called for backup.

The bar is allegedly a favorite for LaBeouf and his loyal pals. RadarOnline interviewed "the guy" LaBeouf came to blows with, college student Mark Mastro, who admits using a gay slur and laughing as the actor left the bar, causing LaBeouf to aggressively "charge" at him. Radar obtained a brief, rough video allegedly recording the moment cops detained LeBeouf and placed him, hands overhead, in a police car for questioning.

As Mastro tells it, "My girlfriend saw Shia. ... I wanted to get a picture with him, so I went over to his table, sat down next to him, and told him I was a fan. I called him Mr. LeBeouf."

"He didn't want anything to do with me. ... He said he just wanted to chill and refused to do a photos. I walked away."

But as the actor crossed paths with the brushed-off fan outdoors, things got surly. According to Mastro, "My friend said, 'What's up, Shia?'. ... Shia told him to 'get the f**k out of my way.' He was slurring his words. ... That's when I said to my buddy, 'don't worry, he's just a f**cking f**got anyway.' ... He turned around, cursed me out, and I started laughing."

Mastro claims LaBeouf got into his truck near the bar's front door, but quickly thought twice about turning the other cheek.

"All of a sudden, he jumped out and ran back. ... 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 s**t. He was chest-bumping me."

Mastro does not admit punching LaBeouf, but confirms to Radar that a bouncer broke up the fight and says more than half a dozen squad cars responded to the scene.

LaBeouf rose to fame as a tween star on the Disney Channel, and later became a household name thanks to Michael Bay's 'Transformers' franchise. But he's becoming equally well-known for his antics both after hours (after a 2007 DUI arrest, he was apprehended while drunk and dazed in a Chicago Walgreen's in 2008) and during broad daylight (he recently snuck up and dumped coffee on a paparazzo). This summer, he'll presumably clean up his act for the press to promote 'Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon,' opening July 1.

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Sunday 06 February

By Polar Patrol

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Smells like Shiarrhea

By Hugh Jassol

He should be arrested just for his terrible acting. And that idiotic name.

By TONY DEE

SHIA ????????????? WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT FOR A MAN...YUCK!

By Kat

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In response to TONY DEE: For your information, Shia's parents were two of the last Barbarians left on the face of the earth. They decided to use a traditional Barbarian name.

By Go, Wolf-Spider!

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Tony Dee,
The name "Shia" means "Gift of God" in Yiddish. "LaBeouf" is French for "The Beef". If you translate his name into English, it says, "Thank God for Beef." He has explained this on multiple appearances on talk shows like Leno and Conan. It's the reason he can never be a vegetarian. ^_^
You might want to actually do some research before making fun of, or judgements on, people or names.
It seems Hollywood is causing people to lose their sanity (read "self-destruct"), and think THAT is how they have to live their lives, especially when they start their acting life young.

Wolf-Spider

Monday 07 February

By wydbma

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and get in a fight with some douche that calls you gay at a bar? If you aren't, ignore it. If you are, ignore it. Go bask in the bazillions you make from your crappy Transformers movies and get over it.I love this , So does My boyfriend .he is almost 11year older than me .i met him via agegapsin gles.c'om a nice place for seeking age le ss love.which gives you a chance to make your life better and open opportunities for you to meet the attractive young girls and treat you like a king. Maybe you wanna check it out or tell your friends.. Just love it

By BTDT

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Evidently, this guy is a pud. Not much of an actor either.
He single handedly ruined the last Indiana Jones movie.

By YellowRose3218

A few months ago Shia was drinking coffee at a out side cafe, and he seen a pap video taping him. Shia got up acting as if it didnt bother him, then walked by the pap, then threw his coffee on the pa, then ran like a woman, to get away from him as the pap laughed at him. It was pathetic, as if the guy would catch up to Shia to whip his bot.
A lot of people must have been watching, for Shia to actually try to hit a man for being called a name.
Shia is not a big man, and the video showed how afraid he was when he threw the coffee on the pap. For a man to run away from another man, says it all. May be hes learned now not to be hitting other men, they hit back. I wonder how Shia looks right now?

By frankerin

I like his acting, but I saw him doing a tv interview on some late night show. He was vulgar and not very attractive. More like a teen displaying his macho. I don't like his personality. I am not surprised that he has impulse control and cannot stand criticism and rejection by the public. It is part of his world and he can't handle it. Bad vibes for his future. Al a Charlie Sheen?

By JayZee

I'm not surprised. He's self-destructive and out of control. To make things worse for him, he chooses to do more Michael Bay crap. Number 3 in the series? The second one sucked and this one won't even have Megan Fox in it, so why watch?

By Chilacher

Why watch? The main appeal of a movie about cars transforming into robots are the robots. Megan Fox was a bonus.

By Ted Bundy

LA is probably not a good place to say stuff like that. How much you want to bet GlAAD or whatever they are called are going to try and get people to boycott his movies? Oh well, Carry Mulligan is smart to leave this loser behind.

By JanetB

He was called the slur by the fan, who was bothering him. It's the fan who is homophobic. That's the result of movies like The Dilemma, which says it is ok to use that that kind of name-calling on minority groups.

By john

I'm not one for name calling,("sticks and stones".....)but reading the article, it clearly says that Shia started the altercation when he told the group to F*CK OFF when he walked by them.

By victory

Same thing happened to my son while he was in college, unfortunately for the ignorant name caller, my son has "guns" like boulders and beat the Sxxt out of that bunk. It's best to keep your yap shut, you never know who your messing with.

Is your son a homo?

By fiona

Looking for a date Teddy? Actually, Shia is just a victim of his own PR people. They make it easy to get a swelled head and he's a prime example of an actor who thinks he's 'arrived', but his car is really still stuck in traffic.

By Flagrante Delicto

They should keep all Disney Clones locked up in a cage.

By mickey

Sooooooooo very difficult to be a movie star.

By riojoanz

The fan was a rude pric and so were his friends. They should have left Shia alone. If he didn't want to do a photo, he has the right to decline. Mastro's friend provoked Shia as he was leaving the bar. Bad move. And then to call someone a name was totally incendiary. Men, booze and bad moods do not mix.

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