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August 8, 2006 -- EVEN before Mel Gibson's drunken driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade last week, not all residents of Malibu were happy to call their home "Melibu."
Gibson and his wife, Robyn, let some of their seven children roam the tony beach suburb north of Los Angeles unsupervised, and the kids "terrorize" the neighborhood, according to two residents.

One local tells us that Gibson's kids, a daughter, 26, and six sons ranging in age from 7 to 24, "are the holy terrors of Malibu. They do whatever they want."

According to one story repeated by neighbors, Gibson's high-school sons tried to buy two kayaks from a surf shop and demanded the store put them on credit. When told the family didn't have an account there, a source says, "They got very angry and started shouting, 'Don't you know who we are?' " (Staffers at Zuma Jay's and the Malibu Surf Shack, the two kayak stores in Malibu, say they don't recall such an incident.)

Malibu resident Shari Nassimi also finds the Gibson spawn wayward, but in an unspecified way. In a letter to the editor of Surf Rider News, Nassimi writes, "If Mr. Gibson would only pay attention to his own family and children, [who] have had issues of their own . . . he would [stop] perpetuating what he points to in others as evil."

Meanwhile, despite Gibson's apparent dislike of Jews, there are some he likes a lot. His long-time personal bodyguard is an Israeli, Avi Korein, 45, and his publicist, Alan Nierob, is the son of Holocaust survivors.

Now, Gibson has been asked to speak at an L.A. synagogue on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, the holiest day of the year. In a letter obtained by TMZ.com, David Baron, the rabbi for the Temple of the Arts, wrote: "In our faith we are commanded to forgive when the offending party takes the necessary steps and offers an apology from the heart."

Fox News entertainment guy Bill McCuddy observes that Gibson's dad is known as a Holocaust denier: "You can't blame Gibson. He's just doing what any good son does. Trying to impress his father."

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"Trying to impress his father"...