SHORT TAKES : ‘Mad Mel’ Smashes Camera
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MODESTO — It was a lot milder than his “Lethal Weapon” movies, but police said actor Mel Gibson smashed a camera when a photographer refused to quit taking pictures.
Gibson was in the parking lot of a local nightclub, the Easy Street Lounge, when free-lance photographer Richard Reeves began snapping photos of him Saturday, police were told.
According to the police report, Reeves ignored a request to stop, so Gibson grabbed the camera and smashed it against the pavement. Gibson then apologized and told Reeves he would pay for the damaged equipment, valued at $650, witnesses told police. No arrests were made.
Gibson reportedly was in the city, 90 miles southeast of San Francisco, to buy cattle for his Montana ranch.
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