Wheelchair DWI
The reasons some get help, often have nothing to do with a desire for change. Try to make sense of the crazy behavior and you’ll spin, because there is none to be made.
This is precisely why the invitation to change we make as a family works. We are thinking clearly and have a plan, while the addicted remains enslaved to the cravings, the addiction.
Remarkably, the reasons one gets to treatment don’t tend to matter.
1) One admits him or herself to treatment
2) One is court-mandated to treatment
3) One enters treatment as a result of intervention
Each will arrive, hear the message and best case, recover. Without fail, change begins. The recovery statistics are best for those entering treatment from intervention and the courts. The added layer of accountability and structure matters.
Dragging the truth from basement, and engaging with love and strength counts.
Everyone deserves to recover. Here’s to today! The perfect day to take action and help.
- Brad
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June 23, 2008 11:42am
MOTORISTS had to swerve to avoid a man asleep at the controls of a motorised wheelchair on a north Queensland highway.
Police who breath-tested him allegedly found him to be six times the legal blood alcohol limit.
Police found the 64-year-old man asleep in his wheelchair in a turning lane on the Captain Cook Highway at Stratford north of Cairns on Friday morning.
Passing police noticed him slumped in the wheelchair and stopped to help.
They breathalysed him when they smelt alcohol on him.
He allegedly blew .301, more than six times the legal limit.
He told police he was going 14km to Trinity Beach to visit a friend, most of it on the four-lane highway.
“We’ll allege he placed himself in a very dangerous situation,” police spokesman Bob Waters said.
“People should be aware that drink-driving laws cover these kinds of vehicles, but also others like horses and bicycles.
The man will appear in Cairns Magistrates Court on July 7.