What would you have done? Put my mums mind at rest please!

Alcoholism is a disease it can be managed controlled or even cured but it needs an external challenge to prompt the sufferer. Had your mum done nothing he would not change only maintain or get worse . If he is at that stage the next challenge was going to be the police or a drunken crash.
Your mum may well have saved at least one life by her actions.

She was right I reported a twice banned driver who whilst banned thought he could ride a motorbike and be anonymous. The guy was an alcoholic therefore always over the limit .I actually liked the bloke and thought I was doing him a favour before he killed someone

She did the right thing IMO, although it’s not an easy decision to live with.

Many years ago I called the cops on a well known (retired) tv presenter. He and his friend came into our pub once a week and always drank quite a lot. A member of staff coming in moments after they’d left one day asked how much he’d had to drink, since they’d just spotted him getting into his car.

Next time he was in, I followed him out and sure enough, he jumped in his car. He’d had 8 pints.

I told my boss, we deliberated for about 10 seconds, then called the police. He never came back and I don’t know what happened after that.

I feel bad, but not as bad as I would have felt if he ended up knocking someone down, which, when you are continually drinking 8 pints and then jumping in the car, is fairly likely.

This poor guy may just have been preparing for a day at work at Sainsburys. . . . .

😉

Your mum clearly needs to watch more trailer park boys

Rum and coke on the dash board

For every action there is a consequence.
If the guy gets hauled over the coals by the police, then that was his fault, nobody elses.

Wrightymum YOU ROCK!!

surely just “Wrighty”?

Agreed she did the right thing and shouldn’t feel responsible for “ruining his life” It was his decision to drink and drive, not hers.

nickjb – Member
100% the right thing. As above might save an innocent, might also be the kick he needs to get sorted.

This x 10.

Your mum definitely did the right thing.

Are you going to show her this thread to make her feel better? She deserves to see it. 8)

She may have saved his life, rather than ruined it, whatever he’s feeling today.

TheBrick – Julian undoubtedly has the most drink driving style, but I was thinking more of Lahey in Don’t Legalise It… White Liqour 🙂

Long story but i once reported a guy that had fallen asleep behind the wheel at a red light ! (it was late, i was coming home from a callout). Anyhoo being the small place i lived in he worked out i had reported him and doorstepped me to say thanks – he needed some help and that incident had helped him. I genuinely thought he was going to stab me to death. He came in for a cup of tea and I saw him a lot after that. Youngish guy, family, job just things were out of control.

Stevet1, that could be any member of the family.#VAGUE 😆

100% the right thing to do there is no grey area on this one. Done it myself on several occasions.