Some drunks are hopeless cases.

[Archae]

This guy will spend 5 years in jail, big deal.
He'll be making bootleg hooch in prison, by fermenting hidden fruit.

The day he gets out, he'll be plowed.

5 years in prison for 10th OWI

STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) - A Stevens Point man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his 10th drunken driving offense.

Thirty-eight-year-old Michael Vollrath will also serve five years of probation following his prison sentence. Portage County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Eagon also ordered Vollrath on Thursday not to drink alcohol for ten years.

Vollrath's latest conviction follows a February arrest when he was driving with a blood alcohol content more than three times the legal limit. Stevens Point Journal Media (http://spjour.nl/1rRsuJv ) says Vollrath was first convicted of drunken driving in 1994.

http://www.wbay.com/story/26113141/5-years-in-prison-for-10th-owi

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Hope he gets help. Hope he WANTS to get help.

[Archae]

4. After 20 years of getting DUI's?

I really doubt it.

[morningfog]

2. He needs substance abuse treatment, not prison.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. The solution to this?

mandatory ignition interlocks for people convicted of drunk driving. (They did this in New Mexico; drunk driving fatalities dropped by a third.)

[Aerows]

8. Absolutely

After the first one. I don't understand how he could have 10 DUI's and nothing was done to stop him from driving.

[LLD]

5. He deserves more than that.

[Lint Head]

6. And this dude runs the U.S. Congress drunk.

[LanternWaste]

7. So are some teetotalers..

So are some teetotalers...

I'd imagine the hopelessness of an individual is predicated much more on the person rather than the symptoms of the disease...

[TubbersUK]

10. I suspect that you're right

My brother, a long term alcoholic, remained meticulously law-abiding and socially adept throughout. Sadly, he seemed oblivious to (or perhaps just unable to halt) the damage he inflicted on himself.

[Heidi]

9. I will never give up hope for anyone with a disease.

I have, on a couple of occasions, given up on my capacity to "fix it" for another person, but I refuse to give up hope on an individual's potential to get science-based help and work toward health.

[brer cat]

11. Agree.

I have seen some long-term alcoholics turn their lives around after their friends and family had written them off as hopeless. I would never give up hope.

[Heidi]

12. Than you, brer cat.

I think this perspective is too often missing from these discussions.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Agree. I know of some individuals, whom after many failures, have finally managed to become

sober/abstinent, It is never too late to avoid give up on anybody. Everyone deserves a chance.

[riderinthestorm]

15. My dad finally got sober at 74 years old. Drunk for 40 years.

Just passed his sixth year of sobriety.

Fell in love but she wouldn't marry him til he got sober.

You're right. The person has to want to do it. You can't do it for them


(And I love my stepmother to pieces!!))

[Skittles]

16. ditto

my hopelessly drunk uncle was sober the last 12 years of his life with the gentle guidance of his third wife

[lpbk2713]

13. True statement.