So a warrant for the arrest of Shia LaBeouf has been recalled a day after the young actor failed to show up in court to face an unlawful smoking charge. Authorities issued a $1,000 bench warrant for his arrest earlier in the week, but on
Wednesday the court discarded the warrant after
LaBeouf’s attorney turned up to plead not guilty on behalf of the 21-year-old. Small potatoes, sure, but why even bother with a non-guilty plea? A good friend of mine has the right idea: “If I were his lawyer, I’d say they were those sticks of gum coated with powdered sugar that look like cigarettes from the 1980s — you put them in your mouth, inhaled the sugar and blew them out to make it look like you were smoking. I think they stopped selling them because they claimed it marketed cigarettes to kids. But Shia’s got Spielberg money now, so he can afford to buy some of those off eBay and ‘smoke’ sugar wherever he wants.”