You know, when you blow up fairly big in Hollywood, as the young star of Transformers and several other films has done, you can expect some problems to go along with that. You know, standard Hollywood stuff…paparazzi following your every move, long-forgotten “friends” and “relatives” sucking up or trying to bum cash off you, your dad living in your garage and refusing to leave….
Apparently, this is actually happening to Shia LaBeouf. His dad spends his summers living in a teepee in Montana, but when the horrors of a windblown Montana winter rear their ugly head, dad Jeffrey LaBoeuf–a Vietnam veteran, I might add–heads for movie star son Shia’s garage.
This time, though, winter has come and gone, but Shia’s still got his dad in the garage. Here are his own words on the subject:
We’ve got this little air mattress set up for him. It’s very comfortable. But now it’s not winter anymore and he’s still there. But I can’t go there and go, ‘Hey dad. Listen it’s time to go back.’ I can’t make him leave.”
Oh, well, excuse me, Shia. It must be SO HARD putting up with your FATHER on an AIR MATTRESS in the GARAGE. I marvel at your sheer forbearance in not calling the cops to come out and bash your father’s skull in with nightsticks because he won’t get out of your GARAGE. Your patience and respect for your own family is the cornerstone of our moral integrity as a nation, and especially on Memorial Day, where we honor and salute our veterans (even those who fought in Vietnam) I’m glad to see you haven’t yet taken a high-pressure fire hose to the garage and forced your own father out into the street at water cannon-point.
You are beneath my contempt, Shia LaBeouf.
This is his father we’re talking about here, not some random vagrant or wino or drunk or drug addict who broke into his garage and won’t leave. He’s got his father–a WAR VETERAN, no less–out on an air mattress in the garage and we’re supposed to feel sorry for him because his dad won’t leave because it’s SUMMER??
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To be fair, his dad sounds incredibly weird. A teepee? In Montana?
I could care less where a war veteran decides to live in the summer months. If he wants to live in a teepee in Montana or a yurt in Outer Mongolia, he’s welcome. Yeah, sure, we call it weird, but not only is this a war veteran, it’s also his father. You’d think Shia could take some of that fat Transformers cash he no doubt made and buy his dad a couple acres in Montana and another couple in, say, Arizona. Then he could come and go between the two as he liked. But no–we get sour grapes from a whiny little boy whose dad is cramping his style by taking up space in the garage.
I guess I’ve never felt like being a veteran gives you a free pass to do whatever you want. It’s weird and invasive to camp out in your kid’s garage, unless you’re homeless, in which case it might be a good idea to get a job. Also, given that Shia ended up in show business, there’s a rough 80% chance that his father abused him.
In any case, I sense a kind of joking tone in what he said. I don’t really think there’s malice there.