
The charges were later dropped, but knowing how powerful men often get away with bad behavior, it makes it a little more difficult to love this psychotic scribe.ĭickens had ten children with his wife, Catherine, and eventually, the author got tired of his bride.

But while we might chuckle at these wild hijinks, it stops being funny when you learn that in 1990, Thompson was accused of sexually assaulting a woman he'd invited to his log cabin. His excuse? He was being attacked by a crazed porcupine.

On one occasion, he fired a couple of rounds at his neighbor's house. It wasn't the only time Thompson would get a little reckless with his firearms. He assumed some stalker super fan was outside, about to attack, so he and his family spent the evening hiding in their basement. Thompson meant the whole thing as a joke, but Nicholson didn't think it was particularly funny. Then he capped the whole thing off by leaving an elk's heart and some bullet casings on Nicholson's doorstep. Next, Thompson aimed a military-style spotlight at Nicholson's home and fired a pistol in the air.

During the '80s, Jack Nicholson was celebrating his birthday with his family when Thompson showed up at his home in the middle of the night and shot a super powerful flare into the sky - one that lit up a 40-mile radius for nearly a whole minute. Murray wasn't the only movie star to suffer Thompson's eccentricities. Thompson allegedly tied him to a chair, tossed him into a pool, and nearly let him drown.
