Don’t Drink And Drive (Then Roll Your F-150)

Another public service announcement and celebrity lesson in the perils of drunk driving, which, for Shia LeBeouf, led to a shattered hand after totaling the Ford F-150 which also contained a female passenger (unharmed) in a rollover crash. Shia got lucky and skirted DUI charges due to insufficient evidence, but the aftermath of his busted-ass hand continues to plague the actor in other ways.

Supposedly, after shooting of blockbuster hit Transformers part deux finally wrapped (with script modified to incorporate his injury) the job outlook for Shia hasn’t fared much better than those unemployed Americans standing in your local welfare line. The latest director filming (what would have been Shia’s) upcoming film Dark Fields labeled his star unfit for duty, all ’cause of the currently worthless hand scheduled for even more surgery and rehabilitation.

“Shia’s hand is totally shattered; it’s much worse than anyone thought,” the source told E! News. The 22-year-old LaBeouf, who was able to work around the injury to complete filming on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, dropped out of the upcoming technology-themed thriller Dark Fields. Production had already been delayed thanks to its now former star’s medical issues.

I guess if you really think about it, Shia can’t be that terribly positioned on the job prospects. If he can off drugs and DUI joyriding, there’s probably a good 1.5-2 years a relatively clean Hollywood lifestyle can be sustained on his royalty cache, even without doing a single film. This is all much more believable when you consider Lindsay Lohan and how she’s still somewhat normal and living in a mortgaged house, despite her lack of talent (leading to smaller paychecks) and then combined with a party lifestyle + obsession with shopping.