[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

Agree! Until you have walked a mile in their shoes...... best to keep quiet.

However...…..we all do sort of decide how we feel. Even if we remain silent. She embarrassed herself and there were opioids in her car. Grateful she was stopped before she drove the car into someone. Even grateful that the other news publishes mugshots. I think it might deter some of the behavior that is dangerous not only to the person but to others.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

However...…..we all do sort of decide how we feel. Even if we remain silent. She embarrassed herself and there were opioids in her car. Grateful she was stopped before she drove the car into someone. Even grateful that the other news publishes mugshots. I think it might deter some of the behavior that is dangerous not only to the person but to others.

So now you pile on to let us know that there were opiods in her car etc. etc.

GG it's all gossip .............. and we are all really good at gossip.

[blueeagle65]

Check out her mug shot on the other site. Shudder....

[Chi-Town]

Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan

You know, each person throughout their lives has choices to make on how their life turns out.

The thousands of people I arrested in my career had that choice to do either what they did wrong to come in contact with me or make the right choice and not commit a crime.

The people that do bad things in life that we read about on the*******news.com, here on TOTV, see on television - they had that choice.

I do not believe all the BS about “mental disorders” or “mental disease”; I think it’s conveniently used far too often to not take responsibility for the actions they committed.

When you arrested someone did you have to appear in court for the charge?

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[New Englander]

An adult woman going into a restaurant in a bathing suit that police say she was impaired is a very sad thing.

[manaboutown]

Bizarre and tragic events happen daily in the area. The online news recently reported a deranged adult son attacking his mother with kitchen knives and an apparently inebriated 77 year old man attacking a deputy who was trying to save his wife from choking on her own vomit.

Alcohol and other substance abuse is rampant these days. Age and economic class do not matter.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

So now you pile on to let us know that there were opiods in her car etc. etc.

GG it's all gossip .............. and we are all really good at gossip.

Pile on?


"Lady Lake police received a complaint at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday about the driver of a sport utility vehicle almost causing a head-on collision in the parking lot of the restaurant in Rolling Acres Plaza. The 78-year-old Villager who made the complaint said he saw the woman, wearing only the blue one-piece swimsuit, get out of the SUV and walk into the restaurant." snipped

"She refused to provide a breath sample without a lawyer present. She again asked police to call her mother.
An empty bottle of Hydrocodone was found in the center console of her SUV." snipped

Originally Posted by jeriteri

It is a shame that people, especially in our age group, or others I guess, can't drink responsibly. I have on occasion went overboard, which Is bad, but some of these people just don't give a damn. I guess I really can't explain the feeling they are looking for when they overindulge. It has to be something that alters their state of mind so that they can live with whatever they are living with. Maybe there is someone here that can really explain what possesses them to drink, what feeling they get to make them drink and then what feeling they get to make the overindulge. Anybody?

Depression. Addicts are self medicating.

[manaboutown]

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[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

So now you pile on to let us know that there were opiods in her car etc. etc.

GG it's all gossip .............. and we are all really good at gossip.

It is a report of facts about what happened, certainly not gossip.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

It is a report of facts about what happened, certainly not gossip.

It certainly is gossip when people start enjoying what happened and continually throw the information out there. What for, do you (all of you) really enjoy seeing and reading about someone's pain because if so you might want to find something more interesting to do.

I assume I am going to offend a lot of people with my comments, but I dislike seeing people who need help being made a spectacle in public. We could have just left it that she was escorted out of the restaurant by the police. Instead of which we start looking into her background, searching through the internet, dragging up any and all dirt that can be found on this poor woman. NO I DO NOT KNOW HER, but I was raised to have empathy for the less fortunate in our society. .... and so ends the lesson for today ........

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

It certainly is gossip when people start enjoying what happened and continually throw the information out there. What for, do you (all of you) really enjoy seeing and reading about someone's pain because if so you might want to find something more interesting to do.

I assume I am going to offend a lot of people with my comments, but I dislike seeing people who need help being made a spectacle in public. We could have just left it that she was escorted out of the restaurant by the police. Instead of which we start looking into her background, searching through the internet, dragging up any and all dirt that can be found on this poor woman. NO I DO NOT KNOW HER, but I was raised to have empathy for the less fortunate in our society. .... and so ends the lesson for today ........

Why do you not want the public to know the whole story?

Originally Posted by manaboutown

Why do you not want the public to know the whole story?

If it was you or your family would you want to be dragged through the mud about it? Show some compassion.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

Why do you not want the public to know the whole story?

Why would anyone want to know the whole story? I find it difficult enough to think that this poor woman has been seen in public in such a way. Maybe, as a woman who has lived a close to charmed life, it pains me deeply to see someone shown in this light.

Why dig in to this any more. You know she has a problem, fine, let someone help her, but to keep digging and digging into police reports and newspaper articles is beyond my comprehension. It quite frankly makes me sick to think that people actually are enjoying her pain.

That is all I have to say on the subject, because I have to get on with the rest of my day.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

Why do you not want the public to know the whole story?

Not sure if we need to know the whole story. This is just some woman experiencing some kind of addiction problems or whatever. Really only the business of her friends and family and the legal system if something else is involved.

I am wondering if the moving away from religion in many communities is a problem in all this? I went to BYU Law School on a Merit Scholarship for about ten days in the Fall of 1982. I had a recent covert as a roommate-- a Puerto Rican dance major-- and he wanted to get some points with the local Mormon leaders by getting me to accept the Mormon religion and I needed that time to study for my First Year of law school. I was also still in braces and had a terrible corduroy suit sold to us by a salesman when I went shopping with my Mom.

The Mormon church does take care of its own though and it looked this included members with various kinds of addiction problems. Or at least they try a great deal. Opioid addiction in the heart of Mormon country | CBC Radio

There was a very strict code at BYU as well that controlled intake of many substances. And the people there are very nosy about the conduct of everyone else even if I had a few girls wanting me to try to sneak into the girls' dorm. Which would have probably got me kicked out of BYU, if caught. I was a law student and the Mormon undergraduate girls-- some of them -- were very much there to find a husband. I think I was the only single male in the Class of 1985 at the BYU Law School. There were only 2 or 3 women in my Class that year.

The University of Denver, where I went the next year (starting in May of 1983) to get a MA in Librarianship was often called "Drug University" because of the money of many of the rather rich students and the availability of drugs of all kinds. Quite a change from BYU. It is a Methodist School though but getting involved in the religion was a choice of the student unlike a BYU where you had to attend Mormon services as a BYU student.