You’re killing me, Smalls.
Actor Thomas Gilley, best known for playing Scotty Smalls in the 1993 film “The Sandlot,” was arrested in a bizarre incident earlier this month after he allegedly hurled a dumbbell at the windshield of a neighbor’s Jeep and then held a knife to his front door.
Surveillance camera footage Obtained by TMZ The photo shows a shirtless Guilley, 43, throwing a 35-pound dumbbell at the windshield of his neighbor’s white Jeep in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The weight put a large dent in the glass, which then rolled off the bonnet of the car.
According to the video, Guilley then casually walked through a neighbor’s yard and across the street to his home.
According to local media, the Horry County Sheriff’s Office said the Jeep’s owner yelled at Guilley that the window was “broken,” to which the former child actor responded, “That’s terrible, I’m sorry, I’ll take it back, I’m sorry, I’ll get it back.” Worldwide.
And surprisingly, Security camera footage Footage captured on a neighbor’s doorbell camera shows Gilley appearing to approach the front door brandishing a knife.
Police were called and when they arrived they found Gilley standing in the middle of the road asking a neighbour about his wife’s safety.
According to police reports, he admitted to causing the damage to officers who inspected the scene.
He was arrested on charges of third-degree assault and aggravated injury to personal property. He was transported to the J. Reuben Long Detention Center on June 2 and released the next day on $1,000 bail.
It was not immediately clear what the cause of the conflict was.
This incident was not Gilley’s first brush with police: in 2013, while living in Hamilton, New Jersey, he got into a drunken fight with police at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport, headbutting a police officer and being arrested for assault and battery.
Guilley has appeared in many films, including Black Hawk Down and Mystic River, but is best known for his starring role in The Sandlot when he was 11 years old.
In the popular coming-of-age film, set in the early 1960s, he played Scott Smalls, a new kid who struggles to make friends in his new town but joins a rag-tag baseball team made up of local misfits.
His character’s last name was the inspiration for the film’s iconic line, “You wanna kill me, little brats,” uttered in frustration at his teammate Ham Porter, played by actor Patrick Renna, for his complete lack of baseball knowledge.
The phrase quickly entered the zeitgeist and has since become a catch-all figure of speech for expressing disappointment and indignation.
