Nick Nolte’s son Brawley was arrested in Santa Monica yesterday for DUI and possession of a controlled substance, proving that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when it’s drunk off its ass.

Law enforcement sources tell us Brawley King Nolte — who starred as the kidnapped kid in “Ransom” back in the day — struck another vehicle while making a lane change yesterday afternoon. When cops arrived, we’re told the 23-year-old showed signs of impairment, so cops conducted field sobriety tests and eventually arrested him. Nolte’s bail was set at $5,000. [via Popeater]

That sucks.  Sometimes you have to trade paint a little when you change lanes, just to let people know you mean business.  Reached for comment, Nick Nolte said, “I named ‘im Brawley after the time I got in a bar brawl with a one-armed prostitute down in Mexicali.  Man could she take a punch — toughest whore I ever saw.  Then when I caught eyes on my own pus ‘n guts fer the first time in the delivery room, it give me the same feeling as gettin’ stuck by that whore.  Like a screwdriver in the kidney to remind you yer alive.  Anyway, I was doin a lot of opium back then, mixing it with horse tranquilizers and washin em down with wood alcohol.  Ox flippin, we used to call it…”