Just a reminder just because people are in AA or NA does not mean they have stopped drinking or doing drugs.
Man admits driving drunk after AA meeting
10:58 AM Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
By Kurt Bayer @KurtBayerAPNZ , Cullen Smit
A repeat drink-driver who blew more than twice the legal limit after being stopped on the way home from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting has pleaded guilty today.
Campbell Geoffrey Armstrong, 39, who has three drink-driving convictions, was stopped by police in Canterbury last week while riding a BMW motorbike.
The concrete worker, from Waikuku Beach 25km north of Christchurch, recorded a breath-alcohol reading of 1082 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit 400mcg.
Rangiora District Court was told today that Armstrong had been drinking at home before going to attend an AA meeting in Kaiapoi.
Armstrong was stopped in Kaiapoi on June 4 about 7.30pm after police received a tip-off from an anonymous informant that a man might be driving while intoxicated.
“We follow up on all calls of that nature,” said local police sergeant Mike Brooklands, who added the caller wasn’t someone who was at the AA meeting.
Armstrong was charged with drink-driving for the fourth time.
Defence counsel Donald Dickson accepted it was Armstrong’s fourth conviction but said his last one was more than seven years ago.
But Judge Tony Couch was concerned at the high reading and called for reports before he could be sentenced.
Mr Dickson asked that Armstrong be allowed to drive before he was sentenced so he could keep his job but the judge said he had had “lost his privilege of driving by his actions”.
A repeat drink-driver who blew more than twice the legal limit after being stopped on the way home from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting has pleaded guilty today.
Campbell Geoffrey Armstrong, 39, who has three drink-driving convictions, was stopped by police in Canterbury last week while riding a BMW motorbike.
The concrete worker, from Waikuku Beach 25km north of Christchurch, recorded a breath-alcohol reading of 1082 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit 400mcg.
Rangiora District Court was told today that Armstrong had been drinking at home before going to attend an AA meeting in Kaiapoi.
Armstrong was stopped in Kaiapoi on June 4 about 7.30pm after police received a tip-off from an anonymous informant that a man might be driving while intoxicated.
“We follow up on all calls of that nature,” said local police sergeant Mike Brooklands, who added the caller wasn’t someone who was at the AA meeting.
Armstrong was charged with drink-driving for the fourth time.
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I know, I get so tired of the perception by most that everyone at AA or NA meetings are all sober and just trying to stay that way. True some are, but many, many are not. Making it that much more dangerous of a mix. You also have people high and intoxicated giving other members rides to meetings, including children.
On top of that you have many in Daytona and Holly Hill bringing guns and weapons to meetings in churches and playgrounds!
Wow I did not know about all the vodka bottles at Karla Brada’s condo.
I wonder how many people realize how very typical that scenario is?
My ex sponsor told me long ago that many people go to those meetings drunk and high.
The only requirement to attend is to “have a desire to stop drinking”. You do not have to actually have stopped; just say you want to if asked; which you likely will not even be asked.
I swear, I used to sit at tables with old-timer men and I would often smell that slight, funky tinge in the air of old man sweat, tobacco & booze. It is unmistakable! And this would be coming from those professing many years of total sobriety and preaching and thumping and criticising newcomers.
Such hypocrasy.
Just as in the Karla Brada case, there were many, many empty vodka bottles on scene in the kitchen. She had no alcohol in her blood when she was killed…what do you think his toxicology report may have showed?