Mel Gibson Crashes A Car And We're Supposed To Care?
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Mel Gibson crashes a Maserati on Malibu Canyon Road at 8:30 p.m. on a Sunday night and the world stops?
Maybe a tour with the Bob Bondurant Driving School would help? Perhaps Maserati dealerships should offer a driving school with every purchase? Maybe we just don’t need to hear anything about Mel Gibson any longer?
Just because someone has “celebrity” through acting, directing or whatever else they do, that does not necessarily make them capable of controlling a finely bred vehicle – like a Maserati, Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari or Aston Martin – in everyday business.
It’s a damn shame the American qualifications for driving have slumped so greatly in the past few years. These days, any fool can get a driver’s license by having someone show them how to cheat the rules. The evidence of poor driving principles is all over our roads – few on this side of the Atlantic Ocean have any clue how to operate a motor vehicle properly.
Perhaps if we taught people the rules of the road and depended less on the quantity of dollars changing hands at car dealerships – such as the shop that decided Gibson was worthy of operating a 2008 Maserati (model not named) – and more on the capabilities of those operating said machinery, Gibson’s latest faux pas would not be news.
I, personally, stopped watching any of Gibson’s films after his drunken diatribe a few years back when he railed against the world – excepting himself, of course. I even stopped watching reruns of his films – even the ones he produced but did not star in – after that debacle. Now the actor is accused of injuring a woman who bore him a son – in addition to this latest traffic mishap – and that makes me want to dislike him even more.
Oh, and why am I even writing this? Goodbye Mr Gibson: your 15 minutes (or years, in his case) of fame are over. Not only have you harmed human beings; you’ve inflicted harm on one of the great automotive marques of the world.
Good riddance.
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By Hilaire Posted: 8/19/2010 2:01pm PDT
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