Woody Harrelson was hanging out with his buddy Owen Wilson at The Other Room lounge in Venice, CA on March 3rd. Woody tried to leave the bar holding with two glasses of wine, which every college student knows is forbidden, and was blocked by one of the bouncers. Woody went bezerk on the guy and punched him. Another bouncer stepped in, and Woody kept throwing punches and fighting. He even scratched one of the guys near his eye, and onlookers say there was blood all over the place as Woody had cut his hand on the broken glass from his smuggled wine.

The cops, who just happened to be within viewing distance at the time, cuffed him and eventually released him when the bouncers refused to press charges. Owen Wilson was not involved in the fight and seems to have been mortified by his friends abusive episode. He probably won’t be hanging out with Woody any time soon:

Trouble began about 12:30 a.m., when Woody – holding two glasses of wine – exited the bar with Owen, charge insiders.

A bouncer stepped in front of Woody and told him he couldn’t take the wine, but the actor ignored him, said a source at the bar.

The bouncer then blocked Woody’s path with outsretched arms.

“Woody screamed: ‘Take your hands off me!’ as he threw wine on the bouncer and sucker-punched him,” said a source at the bar.

That started a full-scale brawl in the street, with a second bouncer joining in and wrestling Woody to the ground. Woody punched and scratched the bouncers and gouged a fingernail into one of their faces, just about [sic] the eye, said the bar source.

“Blood was streaming down the bouncer’s face, and Woody cut his hand on the broken glass on the sidewalk… Blood was all over the place.”

Two California Highway Patrol officers, who were writing a ticket across the street, raced over to stop the fight.

“Woody was still flaling away, and the officers ended up cuffing him and putting him in the back of a squad car while they tried to sort out the mess…”

Neither Woody nor the bouncer wanted to go to the hospital. “Paramedics taped Woody’s cut hand.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, March 19, 2007]

Owen Wilson kept apologizing afterwards, saying “I’m sorry I brought him.”

Cops wrote a report about the incident and sent Woody home. He’s not in the clear yet, the bar could still press charges against him, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they sued him. They would have a good case since Woody has a history of abusive outbursts and was caught on tape last July grabbing a paparrazo by the neck and yelling at him. Harrelson was out with a woman who wasn’t his wife at the time.

Harrelson has three children with his wife Laura Louie, Dennie, 14, Zoe, 10, and Mikini, 9 months. He doesn’t seem like an easy guy to live with.

He is known as an advocate for the environment and for the legalization of marijuana.