[TheVillageChicken]

Quite a few drunks leave the pool bar at Nancy Lopez every afternoon driving golf carts.

[DougB]

Originally Posted by DonH57

I wasn't offended and was only asking for more info. 18 beers in an hour is excessive. I wouldn't be able to stand up, let alone drive. I do put out my recycling and among it all are beer bottles. I never put out too many so the trash guy doesn't herniate himself.

24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day! Coincidence? I don't think so.

[spring_chicken]

Originally Posted by TheVillageChicken

Quite a few drunks leave the pool bar at Nancy Lopez every afternoon driving golf carts.

It's the sober ones causing the majority of the accidents. It's just more convenient for folks to just assume people are drunk when they do something stupid or careless.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by gerryann

He's completely anonymous.....and I'm sure that most people that know him, know he has a booze problem. The OP is simply the only one who has the balls to ask for advice on how to help get him off the road.

He just went to the wrong place to get advice.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by gerryann

Sorry Bogie....you're wrong on this one. Driving drunk IN A GOLF CART does NOT happen everywhere. Tell us one other place where 1,000's of folks use a golf cart as their main mode of transportation?

You did not make that distinction............................

[Yung Dum]

Simple solution. Next time you see him take off in his car when he is drunk call 911. Get his plate number. Just be sure he's had enough to get arrested.

[Mudder]

Gee whiz people the OP to me sounded like a concerned neighbor. What's wrong with asking for advice here? I think maybe the idea of asking the AA community here as to how to approach the guy is a good idea.

[CFrance]

I think Happinow has the best suggestion. Call the police and make them aware, ask if there is any recourse. You don't have to sound like you're trying to rat someone out. Just being concerned for everyone's safety.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by bonny

if i had a neighbor that i know is a drunk, driving drunk and had seen him almost cause accidents a number of times and i was concerned, i definitely wouldn't be posting on totv asking for advice. I would be calling the police if i was so concerned about them killing someone while they were drunk.

I agree. As many have suggested, report your observations and concerns to the and let them handle it.

[DougB]

18 beers in an hour and friends enough to work together in his garage but can't tell him the neighborhood is not going to allow him to drive drunk? I'm skeptic of the whole post.

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by DougB

18 beers in an hour and friends enough to work together in his garage but can't tell him the neighborhood is not going to allow him to drive drunk? I'm skeptic of the whole post.

I am NOT addressing this specifically to Doug.

Don't you all have a "friend" or neighbor that you KNOW drinks too much? That you KNOW starts drinking way too early and way too much? ........do you approach this person and tell them? Most likely not.

I think the OP is a friendly neighbor who is concerned. Why is that so hard to believe?

He obviously at this point realizes that he posted this in the wrong place, but give him a break. He was trying to help, and only asking for suggestions.

Maybe too many of you relate too much with the guy who's had too much, but is driving anyway??

[Chatbrat]

About a year ago, I saw a person blow the stop sign exiting the Cane Garden, he blew the traffic light on the corner of Bailey Tr & St Charles, he turned into Pennecamp, he missed his drive way & when we told him he was lucky we were not a Sumter Officer--he sat down on the ground
Do you think this guy was drunk?

[gerryann]

Maybe drunk....but possibly some firm of dementia?

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by njbchbum

Perhaps someone from a local chapter of AA would know the means of an appropriate intervention? The OP might try contacting that group. I believe their meetings and contact info is published in the weekly Rec News.

The meetings might be but they ARE anonymous.

[wudda1955]

18 beers in an hour is one beer, nonstop, every 3.33 minutes. Assuming it's a 12 oz. beer that's 216 ounces of beer in an hour. At 128 ounces in a gallon, that's almost two gallons of beer in an hour. I think he would have drowned himself before he could feel the effects of the alcohol! That's a lot of beer, and while it may well be possible, it just doesn't sound plausible. Now, no matter what, the guy should not be drinking and driving and if he is doing so on a regular basis, he needs to be reported to the police.