Darryl Hannah: Darryl Hannah might love trees as much as Jim Jones does. Except her affection is toward the ones with bark, not the ones that get you eye-closing high. In 2006, the Splash star chained herself to a Los Angeles oak tree to prevent its impending removal. It turned out to be the first time it took more than one fireman to remove a pussy from a tree. Meow.

Edward Furlong: Look, everyone enjoys a good lobster for dinner once in a while, but Eddie took his love for the red-clawed crustacean a step further in 2004. As a protest to what he felt was animal cruelty, Furolong released a bunch of lobsters from a Kentucky grocery store. When police arrived on the scene, they said Furlong was “turning around in circles, and was absolutely shit-faced.” Not in those words exactly, but yeah dude was trashed.

Hayden Panettiere: Although the picture looks like a big water-born circle-jerk, in reality these people aren’t doing anything nearly as important. Heroesstar Hayden Panettiere earned a warrant for her arrest in Japan when she interfered with the a culturally significant ritual dolphin hunt. See, she’s a hero in real life too!

Woody Harrelson: We fucks with Woody, hard body. Not only is he a out-of-the-closet weed smoker, the dude is a huge supporter of the legalization of marijuana. In 1996, Harrelson got pinched when he symbolically planted four “hemp” seeds to protest the marijuana laws in Kentucky. Smoking with Woody >> smoking with your favorite rapper.

Mos Def: In 2005, after Bush’s botched handling of Hurricane Katrina, Mos Def dedicated a song to the former Commander-In-Chief titled “Katrina Clap”. When Mos showed up outside the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards on a flatbed truck and preformed the song, he was arrested, despite having a public performance permit. Coincidentally, “Katrina Clap” is also the name of a nasty STD floating around the New York City penal system.

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