He was either under the influence again or he is a rubbish driver. If found guilty for the second time he should lose his licence for at least 10 years as next time it won't just be cars that are wrecked. Gibson is still on a premier wage even thou Sunderland will be playing CAFC next season. He is lucky that he can afford taxis if traveling on public transport is beneath him. Luke McCormack's madness at driving in the early hours in a dangerous way when still twice the legal limit cost the lives of two young boys. Darron Gibson's drinking habits should have been sorted out long ago. Let's not feel sorry for a wealthy young feller but the protential victims in the future of over the limit drivers.
I'd say the former probably won't help the latter.
I refer you to my earlier answer on Gibson. Ant is an idiot on getting behind the wheel in a car when over the limit. Also he should get a refund from the priory clinic. Shame he hasn't got a close friend or work colleague he could talk to about that problem called life. Gibson and Mcpartlin both have big issues but cars are killing machines when in the hands of drunk drivers.
Sad to see someone potentially struggling with an alcohol problem and/or mental health issues.
Would expect a bit more empathy from those that are quick to pull others up for such transgressions.
Don't buy this at all - if he has an alcohol problem he shouldn't drive. Lots of people have mental health/alcohol issues who don't jump in a car and endanger other people's lives.
Selfish, irresponsible and dangerous - the twat coulď easily have killed someone.
You're right, some of them kill themselves, blow people up, maim innocent members of the public and the like. Plenty of people play the 'understanding' and 'let's wait for all the facts' cards on those occasions but are the first out with the knives on this one.
I don't really understand your line of argument? We have a thread about drink driving which we're condemning yet you drag in stuff which is completely unrelated.
It's not a one-off with Gibson so I think any right he had to sympathy disappeared a long time ago. People who drink or use phones when driving are endangering others and need to be punished.
If you're over the limit get a taxi. He made the choice to drive as far as I understand - if he was in the grip of a terrible mental health condition he would have been sectioned.
There are times when crimes are committed whereby people clamour to claim that the individual was mentally ill, usually to try and ward off the uncomfortable truth as to why people do things they shouldn't, yet you say that if someone is in the grips of a mental illness (I didn't use the term 'terrible mental health condition', but we'll go with it) then they would have been sectioned. That essentially means that no crime can be committed by a mentally ill person as they'd have been sectioned before the crime had been committed.
That rubbishes plenty of former claims that mentally ill people carried out some rather nasty stuff. Why did this never come to light before? Because people pick and choose what mental illnessesthey deem to be worthy of their sympathy.
I see that the big forheaded one from Ant & Dec has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving. Really looking forward to the court of CL reconvening on that one.
This is Darren Gibson's second drink driving charge so can't see what excuse there is? I'm still unclear as to the point you're making about mental health - it strikes me that you're struggling to differentiate between different issues.
Somebody in a major psychotic episode or severely depressed might have some excuse for their behaviour - if you're still functioning and capable of making a choice which as far as I'm aware Mr Gibson is then he has to take responsibility for his selfish actions.
Nobody pushed him behind the wheel.
There is a huge difference between mental illnesses and I'm not trying to underplay the serious ones. I've seen plenty of failed suicide attempts that have ended up in orthopaedic wards that I've worked on - nearly all these people were desperately ill and had reached a very dark place.
Sad to see someone potentially struggling with an alcohol problem and/or mental health issues.
Would expect a bit more empathy from those that are quick to pull others up for such transgressions.
Don't buy this at all - if he has an alcohol problem he shouldn't drive. Lots of people have mental health/alcohol issues who don't jump in a car and endanger other people's lives.
Selfish, irresponsible and dangerous - the twat coulď easily have killed someone.
You're right, some of them kill themselves, blow people up, maim innocent members of the public and the like. Plenty of people play the 'understanding' and 'let's wait for all the facts' cards on those occasions but are the first out with the knives on this one.
I don't really understand your line of argument? We have a thread about drink driving which we're condemning yet you drag in stuff which is completely unrelated.
It's not a one-off with Gibson so I think any right he had to sympathy disappeared a long time ago. People who drink or use phones when driving are endangering others and need to be punished.
If you're over the limit get a taxi. He made the choice to drive as far as I understand - if he was in the grip of a terrible mental health condition he would have been sectioned.
There are times when crimes are committed whereby people clamour to claim that the individual was mentally ill, usually to try and ward off the uncomfortable truth as to why people do things they shouldn't, yet you say that if someone is in the grips of a mental illness (I didn't use the term 'terrible mental health condition', but we'll go with it) then they would have been sectioned. That essentially means that no crime can be committed by a mentally ill person as they'd have been sectioned before the crime had been committed.
That rubbishes plenty of former claims that mentally ill people carried out some rather nasty stuff. Why did this never come to light before? Because people pick and choose what mental illnessesthey deem to be worthy of their sympathy.
I see that the big forheaded one from Ant & Dec has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving. Really looking forward to the court of CL reconvening on that one.
This is Darren Gibson's second drink driving charge so can't see what excuse there is? I'm still unclear as to the point you're making about mental health - it strikes me that you're struggling to differentiate between different issues.
Somebody in a major psychotic episode or severely depressed might have some excuse for their behaviour - if you're still functioning and capable of making a choice which as far as I'm aware Mr Gibson is then he has to take responsibility for his selfish actions.
Nobody pushed him behind the wheel.
There is a huge difference between mental illnesses and I'm not trying to underplay the serious ones. I've seen plenty of failed suicide attempts that have ended up in orthopaedic wards that I've worked on - nearly all these people were desperately ill and had reached a very dark place.
Sad to see someone potentially struggling with an alcohol problem and/or mental health issues.
Would expect a bit more empathy from those that are quick to pull others up for such transgressions.
Don't buy this at all - if he has an alcohol problem he shouldn't drive. Lots of people have mental health/alcohol issues who don't jump in a car and endanger other people's lives.
Selfish, irresponsible and dangerous - the twat coulď easily have killed someone.
You're right, some of them kill themselves, blow people up, maim innocent members of the public and the like. Plenty of people play the 'understanding' and 'let's wait for all the facts' cards on those occasions but are the first out with the knives on this one.
I don't really understand your line of argument? We have a thread about drink driving which we're condemning yet you drag in stuff which is completely unrelated.
It's not a one-off with Gibson so I think any right he had to sympathy disappeared a long time ago. People who drink or use phones when driving are endangering others and need to be punished.
If you're over the limit get a taxi. He made the choice to drive as far as I understand - if he was in the grip of a terrible mental health condition he would have been sectioned.
There are times when crimes are committed whereby people clamour to claim that the individual was mentally ill, usually to try and ward off the uncomfortable truth as to why people do things they shouldn't, yet you say that if someone is in the grips of a mental illness (I didn't use the term 'terrible mental health condition', but we'll go with it) then they would have been sectioned. That essentially means that no crime can be committed by a mentally ill person as they'd have been sectioned before the crime had been committed.
That rubbishes plenty of former claims that mentally ill people carried out some rather nasty stuff. Why did this never come to light before? Because people pick and choose what mental illnessesthey deem to be worthy of their sympathy.
I see that the big forheaded one from Ant & Dec has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving. Really looking forward to the court of CL reconvening on that one.
This is Darren Gibson's second drink driving charge so can't see what excuse there is? I'm still unclear as to the point you're making about mental health - it strikes me that you're struggling to differentiate between different issues.
Somebody in a major psychotic episode or severely depressed might have some excuse for their behaviour - if you're still functioning and capable of making a choice which as far as I'm aware Mr Gibson is then he has to take responsibility for his selfish actions.
Nobody pushed him behind the wheel.
There is a huge difference between mental illnesses and I'm not trying to underplay the serious ones. I've seen plenty of failed suicide attempts that have ended up in orthopaedic wards that I've worked on - nearly all these people were desperately ill and had reached a very dark place.
Sad to see someone potentially struggling with an alcohol problem and/or mental health issues.
Would expect a bit more empathy from those that are quick to pull others up for such transgressions.
Don't buy this at all - if he has an alcohol problem he shouldn't drive. Lots of people have mental health/alcohol issues who don't jump in a car and endanger other people's lives.
Selfish, irresponsible and dangerous - the twat coulď easily have killed someone.
You're right, some of them kill themselves, blow people up, maim innocent members of the public and the like. Plenty of people play the 'understanding' and 'let's wait for all the facts' cards on those occasions but are the first out with the knives on this one.
I don't really understand your line of argument? We have a thread about drink driving which we're condemning yet you drag in stuff which is completely unrelated.
It's not a one-off with Gibson so I think any right he had to sympathy disappeared a long time ago. People who drink or use phones when driving are endangering others and need to be punished.
If you're over the limit get a taxi. He made the choice to drive as far as I understand - if he was in the grip of a terrible mental health condition he would have been sectioned.
There are times when crimes are committed whereby people clamour to claim that the individual was mentally ill, usually to try and ward off the uncomfortable truth as to why people do things they shouldn't, yet you say that if someone is in the grips of a mental illness (I didn't use the term 'terrible mental health condition', but we'll go with it) then they would have been sectioned. That essentially means that no crime can be committed by a mentally ill person as they'd have been sectioned before the crime had been committed.
That rubbishes plenty of former claims that mentally ill people carried out some rather nasty stuff. Why did this never come to light before? Because people pick and choose what mental illnessesthey deem to be worthy of their sympathy.
I see that the big forheaded one from Ant & Dec has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving. Really looking forward to the court of CL reconvening on that one.
This is Darren Gibson's second drink driving charge so can't see what excuse there is? I'm still unclear as to the point you're making about mental health - it strikes me that you're struggling to differentiate between different issues.
Somebody in a major psychotic episode or severely depressed might have some excuse for their behaviour - if you're still functioning and capable of making a choice which as far as I'm aware Mr Gibson is then he has to take responsibility for his selfish actions.
Nobody pushed him behind the wheel.
There is a huge difference between mental illnesses and I'm not trying to underplay the serious ones. I've seen plenty of failed suicide attempts that have ended up in orthopaedic wards that I've worked on - nearly all these people were desperately ill and had reached a very dark place.
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Just a wild guess like.
Somebody in a major psychotic episode or severely depressed might have some excuse for their behaviour - if you're still functioning and capable of making a choice which as far as I'm aware Mr Gibson is then he has to take responsibility for his selfish actions.
Nobody pushed him behind the wheel.
There is a huge difference between mental illnesses and I'm not trying to underplay the serious ones. I've seen plenty of failed suicide attempts that have ended up in orthopaedic wards that I've worked on - nearly all these people were desperately ill and had reached a very dark place.
Even the likes of Watford, Leicester et al are now going down the foreign manager route.
He signed a 2.5 year deal with Sunderland so will get a nice payout regardless.
He also knew he would never top what he did at the last Euros with Wales.
Thank God for Ant McPartlin, I only have to worry about the Sunderland echo now.
Lucky boy.