Another drunk pilot
#81
Do I have compassion for alcoholics? Some, yes. However, I will never recognize it as a disease. Disorder, maybe. Cancer is a disease. Willingly dumping a fifth of vodka down the hatch isn't a disease. Calling it a disease is just the sentiment of todays world: it's not MY fault that I drink.......it's a disease. Bull crapola. Each and everyone of us have free will. Leukemia, that's a disease.
My father was an alcoholic and a CA for 30 years with a Legacy. He did not drink very often at all...a few times per year. When he did, he was unable to stop. He got caught at the bar of his hotel (1980's) well past the cutoff time and was taken off the flight. Company sent him to rehab for 30 days, came back to the line and never had another drink in his life. He would not even take cough syrup with alcohol in it. Many on here apparently have no knowledge (lack of experience) on this subject.
As for the TSA, if you let them invade your personal space, your fault. Every time this happens, they think they will be the one to catch the next drunk. I have backed them out of my face many, many times as they try and smell for alcohol. I even started taking original (yellow) Listerine just to screw with them sometimes. Always fun to call the supervisor over and ream all who were stupid enough to get involved.
The Police....well you are never REQUIRED to perform a field sobriety test. In a DUI situation, there is nothing you must do. They will probably take you to jail for a blood test, but you can even refuse that. However, IF you refuse the BT in jail, you WILL lose your license for a year. But, no DUI on your record if you were actually drunk. Learn your rights, pay for cab, phone a friend, and never say "I could not do that sober". You just busted yourself.
#82
You don't get it my friend. People far smarter than you and me have studied this. Their answer: disease. Your problem is that you see it as a moral delinquency. I assume you're not a total idiot and you would agree with me that type 1 diabetes is a disease. Just like an alcoholic the body reaches a chemical imbalance and exceeds a threshold. Now the disease is out of the hands of the individual. Well, type 1 diabetes cannot be cured...it can be managed. When a diabetic goes into shock we don't armchair QB them and say bull crapola it's not my fault I go into shock. The individuals that think like you simply don't get it. Calling BS on something you don't comprehend...not the smartest.
Excuses for people and start showing them the error in their ways, the better off we will ALL be.
#83
I have always felt the need to drive fast. usually I can control it, but sometimes I can't. I just look down at the speedometer and I'm speeding. Something about the brain activity I experience driving fast makes me want it more. When I'm stuck in traffic, even when I have no place to be, my blood pressure goes up for no reason at all. The fact that I can not control my "need for speed" must make it a disease.
If I get pulled over, what disease should I tell the cop I suffer from?
If I get pulled over, what disease should I tell the cop I suffer from?
#84
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Posts: 330
Getting fired from your regional FO job is losing a lot? The future is so bright for this industry . . . all those potential wages he is going to lose. He'll retire with more in his bank account in his new career than the majority of us regional pilots selling our souls for 30K a year with no end in sight.
Genius I know.... we should all do it.
I have a real suggestion though. Quit your job. It sounds like you are bitter and hate it, so do everyone around you a favor and leave. Despite what you may think nobody likes to hear a whiner.
#85
Comparing an alcoholic to a diabetic? And you say that I don't understand? So with what you're saying, alcoholism just "develops" in a person without any of their own knowledge or actions? Interesting. And don't get me started on not being a doctor; just because a "medical expert" deems it something (often under political pressure from the ama et al) does NOT make it gospel. Think about how asinine your comparison is. I think I'm gonna get off this trip to go home and get my nine year old screened for alcoholism. Although they've never seen alcohol, the "disease" may be lingering in them just as diabetes may. Give me a frickin break. The sooner we stop making
Excuses for people and start showing them the error in their ways, the better off we will ALL be.
Excuses for people and start showing them the error in their ways, the better off we will ALL be.
USMCFLYR
#86
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2011
Posts: 107
Let's not forget, there's a difference between a drunk, and an alcoholic; alcoholics go to meetings. Just curious as to why no other crew members stopped this? For safety and security reasons, I would have called crew shed for this particular crew member, I doubt he was alone on the crew van?
#87
Comparing an alcoholic to a diabetic? And you say that I don't understand? So with what you're saying, alcoholism just "develops" in a person without any of their own knowledge or actions? Interesting. And don't get me started on not being a doctor; just because a "medical expert" deems it something (often under political pressure from the ama et al) does NOT make it gospel. Think about how asinine your comparison is. I think I'm gonna get off this trip to go home and get my nine year old screened for alcoholism. Although they've never seen alcohol, the "disease" may be lingering in them just as diabetes may. Give me a frickin break. The sooner we stop making
Excuses for people and start showing them the error in their ways, the better off we will ALL be.
Excuses for people and start showing them the error in their ways, the better off we will ALL be.
#88
Comparing an alcoholic to a diabetic? And you say that I don't understand? So with what you're saying, alcoholism just "develops" in a person without any of their own knowledge or actions? Interesting. And don't get me started on not being a doctor; just because a "medical expert" deems it something (often under political pressure from the ama et al) does NOT make it gospel. Think about how asinine your comparison is. I think I'm gonna get off this trip to go home and get my nine year old screened for alcoholism. Although they've never seen alcohol, the "disease" may be lingering in them just as diabetes may. Give me a frickin break. The sooner we stop making
Excuses for people and start showing them the error in their ways, the better off we will ALL be.
Excuses for people and start showing them the error in their ways, the better off we will ALL be.
#89
Well, when YOU become a Dr., you can work on renaming Alcoholism for the rest of the world.
My father was an alcoholic and a CA for 30 years with a Legacy. He did not drink very often at all...a few times per year. When he did, he was unable to stop. He got caught at the bar of his hotel (1980's) well past the cutoff time and was taken off the flight. Company sent him to rehab for 30 days, came back to the line and never had another drink in his life. He would not even take cough syrup with alcohol in it. Many on here apparently have no knowledge (lack of experience) on this subject.
As for the TSA, if you let them invade your personal space, your fault. Every time this happens, they think they will be the one to catch the next drunk. I have backed them out of my face many, many times as they try and smell for alcohol. I even started taking original (yellow) Listerine just to screw with them sometimes. Always fun to call the supervisor over and ream all who were stupid enough to get involved.
The Police....well you are never REQUIRED to perform a field sobriety test. In a DUI situation, there is nothing you must do. They will probably take you to jail for a blood test, but you can even refuse that. However, IF you refuse the BT in jail, you WILL lose your license for a year. But, no DUI on your record if you were actually drunk. Learn your rights, pay for cab, phone a friend, and never say "I could not do that sober". You just busted yourself.
My father was an alcoholic and a CA for 30 years with a Legacy. He did not drink very often at all...a few times per year. When he did, he was unable to stop. He got caught at the bar of his hotel (1980's) well past the cutoff time and was taken off the flight. Company sent him to rehab for 30 days, came back to the line and never had another drink in his life. He would not even take cough syrup with alcohol in it. Many on here apparently have no knowledge (lack of experience) on this subject.
As for the TSA, if you let them invade your personal space, your fault. Every time this happens, they think they will be the one to catch the next drunk. I have backed them out of my face many, many times as they try and smell for alcohol. I even started taking original (yellow) Listerine just to screw with them sometimes. Always fun to call the supervisor over and ream all who were stupid enough to get involved.
The Police....well you are never REQUIRED to perform a field sobriety test. In a DUI situation, there is nothing you must do. They will probably take you to jail for a blood test, but you can even refuse that. However, IF you refuse the BT in jail, you WILL lose your license for a year. But, no DUI on your record if you were actually drunk. Learn your rights, pay for cab, phone a friend, and never say "I could not do that sober". You just busted yourself.
People make mistakes, we are human. I am of the belief that if you do mess up and show up to the plane drunk you should go to jail and loose you job. It doesn't matter if you are suffering from a disease or plain stupidity, You only get one chance IMO.
My college roommate died last week in a car accident. He was driving down the wrong side of the highway in the early hours of the morning. I have felt both sorrow and anger, because he hit anther vehicle head on and killed four innocent people.
#90
Since when do doctors know everything? If they were so good why is do ambulance chasers make so much money??
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