It'd surely embarrass the Hollywood star who lit up movie screens as a man to know grandson, Clark Gable III, acts like a "boy". The film star's relation plays Jedi with a 'Lightsaber' while LAPD isn't happy about lasers shined on police helicopters. No, a coper's not the Hollywood sign. Yes, it does cost $250,000 to bail out of Los Angeles jail.
Clark Gable III better hope he gets at least $25,000 in his Los Angeles lawsuit over a 2009 stabbing in Calabasas that ended him up at UCLA twice -- once for a collapsed lung, then a day later for a re-collapsed lung. He sued for that stabbing earlier this year in 2011: He's going to need those funds to pay the bondsman because the film star's grandson will be posting $250,000 bail for allegedly pointing a laser at an LAPD helicopter just a day ago. For now, the young Gable still sits in Los Angeles jail.
He's 22. And he seems to be very stupid.
It's not Clark Gable III claims he was just pointing the green laser at the famous Hollywood sign hillside. Cops aren't buying the story. A Los Angeles judge apparently isn't pleased with the film star's grandson, who isn't getting any 'get out of jail free card': He's got to post a quarter of a million bucks to get out of the Los Angeles jail cell he's been inhabiting since last night.
Kaylee Gable has referred to her brother as viewing the laser as a "light saber" and has referred to her brother as a young boy. The problem is, he's 22 -- and it's kind of time to grow up, years ago.
The Los Angeles Police Department's helicopter, whose pilot describes the vehicle's interior as lit up by the laser shot from the ground on July 28, was illuminated by a green laser light that had the potential of blinding the copter's pilot and even causing a crash.
Los Angeles, California, police have already been investigating recent reports of young kids shining lasers at helicopters. While police believe those separate reports are unrelated to Gable III, the California police department is not amused. Nor is the law enforcement agency taking the July 28, 2011, crime lightly. The price of lasers has dropped to a few hundred bucks -- meaning anyone can own one, even if you're a famous film star's grandkid.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cites a growing problem of people pointing lasers at aircraft including planes and helicopters -- a rate that almost doubled in one year: 1,527 people dumbly pointed lasers at flying vehicles in 2009, and that number shot to 2,836 in 2010.
Obviously Gable III wasn't planning on getting busted during his play time -- but after the green laser shined on the flying LAPD helicopter, the copter's pilot was able to shine a searchlight on the vehicle and immediately call for back-up crews on the ground. Cops on the streets were able to corner the car pinpointed by the helicopter's searchlight from above. When Los Angeles police cruisers pulled over Gable III, officers claim they found the green laser in his car.
Both Clark Gable III and Maximillion Alexander were taken into Los Angeles police custody.
Gable III spent last night in jail over the laser. Initial reports said the film star's grandson would be forced to post $60,000 bail in order to escape jail -- hefty bail for a first-time felony offense without violence. But it seems LAPD wants to send a message: By mid-day, bail required for Gable III had been upped to $250,000 over the air safety offense. Gable was still sitting in L.A. jail by close of the work day on July 29 .
The quarter of a million dollars bail Gable III accrued ranks among one of the highest amounts for Los Angeles, California. Both Los Angeles and its neighboring Orange county are known to have some of the highest bail amounts across the nation for accused criminals -- but the 22-year-old Gable managed to wrangle himself a bail amount on par with "Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child Under 14 Years" 2011 Felony Bail Schedule for Los Angeles.
Yep. That takes some skills to get yourself that kind of bail. Gable III is lucky his family doesn't let him sit in the Los Angeles jail cell, just simply for his sheer stupidity. But the remainder of the family -- including Kaylee Gable -- doesn't seem too far removed from the genius.
Perhaps it's the L.A. judge's version of "Acting Like a Child Under 14 Years".
Clark Gable III seems to want a 'bad boy' image but instead seems to better negotiate the path of looking the fool -- since that's about all he seems to be famous for. The film star's grandkid seems to have a knack for getting himself into strange legal predicaments. In 2009, the famous 'Gone with the Wind' star's grandson was stabbed in the left side of his upper torso at a house party. In February 2011, Gable filed a lawsuit against the guy he said was responsible for holding a knife to his throat in Calabasas, California -- in an incident that ended up collapsing his lung, twice. The young Gable had said he was "still recovering from [the] nightmare" in 2011 -- when he was suing for more than $25,000 in damages related to the 2009 stabbing incident.
Ironically that $25,000 may come in handy if the guy with no fame recovers those requested damages in court: With $250,000 posted bail required in the July 2011 laser accusations, Clark Gable III will be handing over roughly $25,000 dollars to someone he doesn't know -- in the form of the standard 10%-percent fee to the bail bonds company. Kudos.