Actor’s Smoking-Arrest Woes Inspire Headline Writers

A court has issued a $1,000 bench warrant for the arrest of actor Shia LaBeouf, the star of Transformers and an upcoming Indiana Jones movie, after he failed to show up in court yesterday on a charge of unlawful smoking.

Neither LaBeouf nor his lawyer appeared in court Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The wire service’s headline on the story reads, “Court Calls LeBeouf’s Puff Bluff.” The New York Daily News begins its story on the development this way: “What a drag!”