It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Getting to know someone who has a booze problem - and I mean a booze problem, not just a fondness for a cheeky pint after work - gives you a lot more perspective on this. My friend is now dry, and I'm proud of him because I know what he had to go through to get that way, and is still going through in order to stay that way.
You don't just pack it in, have wacky dreams for a week and that's that.
It's easy to gob out unthinking platitudes about what others have and haven't learned. Ant McPartlin has a shitload of cash so he must be golden, right?
Okay, he needs to feed his addiction, and has less control over it than somone for whom alcohol is not a cause for addiction.
But why, if he is in such a precarious position, does he feel the need to get behind the wheel of a car and endanger others? That is the sort of behaviour that needs to be discouraged. That sort of behaviour isn't an addiction, I doubt that you can be addicted to driving, I've never cme across that before.
For the greater good his ability to drive a potentially lethal projectile must be subjected to some form of constraint, as is the case with other medical conditions.
Do you really think you could do his job?
As mentioned above it’ll be a difficult road he has to travel to get dry and stay that way but I hope he makes it. Alcoholism and fame / riches are a deadly combination and I sincerely hope he doesn’t end up like Gazza or Best (or George Michael, who also liked a car crash under the influence). A good result for him, with honesty and transparency on his part, would hopefully show that there is hope, and should allow him to resume his career.
Not that that makes any difference to his condition, but being likeable might make his rehab easier for him and the people working with him.
If we want to avert the danger caused when some one whose faculties are impaired gets behind the wheel then surely the solution is to addresses their use of drink/drugs rather than prohibit their driving?
You can have fame, fortune and millions of adoring fans but you can still be a f*ck up.
Of course one of the challenges with hat scenario is that rehabilitation requires a degree of self motivation and cant really be enforced/inflicted on some one.....
They guy fucked up, got fined and can't drive for a while just like any other mortal who fucked up.
He pleaded guilty his addiction is out in the open. He will be watched like a hawk.
His career will be in tatters for a long while.
My dad was probably never sober yet never got caught drink driving if he had he may have faced his demons.
As we now know from his untimely death - his problems were obviously much more serious that the public knew. I hope Ant manages to sort himself out, so we don’t have another life cut short....
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I agree with you though that drinking when over the limit isn’t acceptable.
I guess the biggest problem is how do you know if you are over the limit ot not?
I don’t agree with zero tolerance as tiny traces of alcohol could be in the blood from days before or alcohol could be used in food without you thinking or knowing about it.
Ant and Dec seems a decent bloke who’s just hit rock bottom. Glad he hasn’t seriously hurt anyone else or himself yet and hopefully this is the trigger to get his shit together.
My friend's daughter is about to be released from prison after causing an accident through drink driving. The other lady involved broke her foot in the collision. She's not an alcoholic as such, as her prison term hasn't shown any withdrawal symptoms (3 years, she'll be out after 15 months in case you are wondering) . But she does have severe mental problems that only became apparent when she was sent to jail. Before this happened I was a 'throw away the key' kind of guy. Now I've completely revised my opinion. Not of the crime she committed which was appaling but the fact that she could hide very well her condition from her husband and family. This is a young women with her own successful business, very high flying husband and two beautiful children. That's not an excuse but just like McPartlin, some people who appear to have it all don't.