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- From: hartman@informix.com (Robert Hartman)
- Newsgroups: alt.recovery
- Subject: Re: Violence at AA meetings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.214649.15194@informix.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:46:49 GMT
- References: <1244.779.uupcb@factory.com>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <1244.779.uupcb@factory.com> bruce.baer@factory.com (Bruce Baer) writes:
- >
- >The prefered "method" of choice (at least here in N.Y., N.Y.) is to
- >quickly have a few of the larger male members escourt the indavidual
- >outside where they unceramniously kick the living shit out the person
- >and then call an ambulance. [for referral to detox]
-
- Whew! This is either tough love taken to an extreme, or it's
- insane. I don't know which. Rolling someone into recovery! Well,
- I suppose it's better than leaving them to rot in the gutter.
-
- But if somebody ever did that to me, blind-drunk or not, it'd be the
- last time I ever showed up at a meeting! (But then, I'm not from NY.)
-
- Live and let live I guess.
-
- -r
-