Barbera Criddle in Bristol, England stabs husband for pouring out vodka, chants Bill Wilson for 6 weeks before court. Aug 2012

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Submitted by JR Harris on Wed, 08/08/2012 - 23:11

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Using the "AA/Bill Wilson get out of jail free card" Barbera Criddle in Bristol, England, attends the chanting rituals and ceremonies of Bill Wilson for a full 6 weeks before her court appearance for stabbing her husband Graham Criddle in the arm for pouring out her vodka. Following in the misguided footsteps of the US court systems being used as a way to boost attendance at AA functions, the Bristol Crown court system put her on probation for two years with a "specified activity requirement" reminiscent of court mandated Alcoholics Anonymous ceremonies in the US. The cult of Alcoholics Anonymous is seeping into every court system in the world who are continually mandating worship to Bill Wilson and is being guided by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS) at the Interchurch Center in New York.

Husband stabbed as he dumped vodka

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

A WIFE with a drink problem who stabbed her husband when he tried to pour her vodka down the sink has been handed a suspended jail term.

Barbera Criddle called her husband Graham "evil" and swore at him when he tried to chuck away her booze, Bristol Crown court heard.

She then grabbed a kitchen knife and plunged it into his arm.

Criddle, 56, of Leinster Avenue, Novers Park, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The Recorder of Bristol, Judge Neil Ford QC imposed a 14-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.

He told Criddle: "You pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

"You attend Alcoholics Anonymous very regularly and you have not drank for six weeks.

"You are now deeply remorseful and ashamed."

The judge ordered that Criddle be supervised for a year and attend a specified activity requirement.

Neil Treharne, prosecuting, said the Criddles argued over money and Mr Criddle raised the issue of his wife's long-standing drink problem.

The court heard that the pair struggled over a bottle of vodka, which Mr Criddle had found hidden and attempted to pour away.

Mr Treharne said that, in the course of a struggle, Barbera Criddle grabbed a blade and stabbed her husband in the lower arm.

After trying to attend to a wound Mr Criddle returned, only for his wife to confront him again, the court was told.

Nicholas Fridd, defending, said: "This was on June 18 and it was a wake-up call.

"Mrs Criddle recognised she has a problem with alcohol and, with the help of a solicitor, she attended meetings and in the intervening six weeks she has had not a single drop to drink."

Mr Fridd said his client was upset at the thought that her drinking ruined her marriage.

He told the court: "She will find somewhere else to live.

"She will continue with Alcoholics Anonymous. She's making a very big effort.

"If she could, she would turn the clock back."

Source: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Husband-stabbed-dumped-vodka/story-166614...

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Clara

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 05:59

Good for her. Obviously, though, for her husband, the marriage is over and no amount of rehab and AA will restore it. Perhaps they can find their paths back to each other with some time an recovery...

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 06:40

I take it you think that chanting Bill Wilson works differently in the UK than in the US? Once the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous and the various gateway cults of Al-Anon and Alateen get a hold of your family they quickly break the family unit through disassociation and calling everyone an enabler. It happened to Mary Kennedy living right near the Bill Wilson Spiritualist compound of Stepping Stones in Bedford, New York.

Alcoholics Anonymous destroys marriages through their scripture where Bill Wilson minions go through several wives and husbands in the rooms spawned by the adulterous Bill Wilson. Look at any AA meeting and you will see the poor sheeple with multiple marriages from the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous that are always looking for opposite sex Sponcees and Sponsors and new spouses because their old one wasn't young enough or spiritualist enough. (either that or they were just horny and found another gold digger to play with.)

"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 12:17

a) The woman stabbed her husband.
b) The woman THEN began to attend AA.
c) The judge, and not the woman, determined that she was "very remorseful".
d) AA did not destroy this marriage. Maybe booze did, maybe incompatibility did, maybe boredom did, but AA did not disintegrate this marriage, JR Harris. You simply cannot drop culpability at the feet of AA after having considered the facts as you yourself presented them.

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Fri, 08/10/2012 - 06:14

AA is not the source of all the world's problems? Oh, Snap!

Vicky345uk

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 06:47

People spouting how spiritual they were then having affairs in AA yet still trying to tell others to work the programme. I see all of the 12 steps now as complete and utter gibberish. Not once did I feel empowered and excited about my life while in AA.

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 08:06

Vicky, how can you say that when you had a very supportive sponsor during your own marriage woes? I've seen marriages break up due to substance abuse and then recover due to AA.

I see any number of people that have been many times married. It certainly isn't exclusive to those in recovery.

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 08:26

Alcoholics Anonymous is famous for breaking up marriages by gold diggers hoping to get a Mercedes out of the deal and not having to work. It starts simple, just mentioning that the spouse of the intended new husband or wife isn't spiritualist enough or is smoking pot or something. Then the gold digging minion of Bill Wilson chanting starts taking the inventory of the victims spouse and before you know it they started their web of deceit and then start telling there victim to disassociate from their spouse and quit enabling them.

Before you know it, the AA gold digger isn't working and sits behind a computer screen all day long after stealing the spouse of another AA member they have attempted to destroy. That is if they are allowed to access the internet after participating in online vacation pyramid schemes.....

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 12:33

This is a wonderful example of how you rewrite my posts in an attempt to spin them your own way. LOL!

JR, I have the Benz and the financial security on my own, thank you. I also never destroyed anyone's marriage nor did I ever try to destroy anyone personally. Bipolar and drug/alcohol abuse tend to be individual hells, let alone together. Instead of jeers, prayers or positive energy should be sent that way, especially for him.

I have never been involved in vacation schemes. Can you link me?

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JR Harris

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 08:43

Are you feeling guilty for stalking and taking the inventories of the Morelli's on the Huffington Post and Philly Burbs or something? Quit trying to take my inventory and look at your part in breaking up marriages. So do you still participate in pyramid schemes to give away vacations?

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:20

You routinely speak to me or about me on the same subject.

I have never been privy to pyramid schemes. I suppose you should probably check a bit further if you are going to bother to research a person. The woman involved lives in Longs, SC. It isn't me. If you would like, you can call Elizabeth Saranti for an explanation as to how they treat people with common names in SC real estate law.

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:31

Very interesting, is this because of some other online stalking incident we don't know about or did you have to go to court to testify about your part in the pyramid scheme? Did you tell the truth and were rigorously honest?

By the way Clara, did you know that to get a real estate license in many states you can't have any DUI arrests or convictions? On the application they even ask you if you have had any expunged.......

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 11:42

Never kept me from getting a RI license, JR. It might be true in other states, but not in SC. Minor traffic doesn't count and I didn't have that one then.

I wasn't a party to that pyramid scheme, and if you read about it, you discover it is a woman in Longs, SC. A co-defendent was her reverend husband. But don't let details keep you from trying to smear someone.

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Vicky345uk

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:57

How the trolls keep getting caught out, absolute classic.

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Clara

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 11:31

How do you think this? I demonstrated he was wrong.

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Clara

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 12:35

I read about it in the same place as you all did. If you do a public index search on the plaintiff, you will get the answer to your questions. Until mentioned on OPF, I had never heard of it. Yet another gift from the Anti's.

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Vicky345uk

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 08:45

Clara digging that hole again.....

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Fri, 08/10/2012 - 06:19

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:00

Yes, I wonder what Kimberly would have to say about susan...

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Fri, 08/10/2012 - 06:52

I am sure she would say the same thing as she did in her emails. Gratitude for the happy paths both were on, Teresa. I am sorry she's had such a tough year. Thank you for letting us know about it so that we could send positive energy, especially to him.

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JR Harris

Fri, 08/10/2012 - 06:54

Did you ever think about going on the Jerry Springer Show with the wives you have ticked off in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous?

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Fri, 08/10/2012 - 07:10

I didn't tick off any wives, JR. I was pretty well liked and supported.

Interesting that you would mention the JS Show. One of my friends served as a witness for the first lesbian union filmed on TV. It was the JS show. We've been looking for a clip. I remember seeing the show and laughed my butt off when I acctually met someone associated with it 15 years later.

And, yes, the couple is still together.

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becket

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 12:22

You can't expect anyone with an intact and functioning mind to believe that you are not tacitly referring to Clara. Your feeble transparency is insulting. What do you hope to gain by being such a prick?

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becket

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 12:24

JR Harris, you are again succeeding in derailing your own thread. WTF??

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Vicky345uk

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 08:38

I wonder why you have a male sponsor? Who said I had a supportive sponsor??? Fuck me Clara you can't even get right....

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Clara

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:29

I'm sorry. It was a supportive friend. It was a rather windy post. I can't be expected to remember all the details.

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Vicky345uk

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:49

Going on another anti AA website reading people's post at least get the fact's right.

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Clara

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 11:30

Boy, I sure wish your advice was taken across the board.

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Vicky345uk

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:46

Someone else's post Lol

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Clara

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:48

Yeah, I was. Yours.

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Orange

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 13:17

Apparently the judge feels that going to Alcoholics Anonymous is a sufficient punishment for stabbing somebody. Think about the implications of that one for a while.

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Clara

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 14:22

Perhaps he took the approach that sans alcohol, she wouldn't have commited the crime.

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Gunthar2000

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 14:25

You mean that alcoholics are not responsible for their behavior?

That's called AA's get out of jail free card.

AA is a religious cult dressed up to look like a treatment for alcoholism.

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 16:30

I am not so sure of that, Gunthar. With the absence of priors, you could get the same thing in the States.

I think she is showing responsibility.

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 16:39

And chanting Bill Wilson for 6 weeks is going to prevent Barbera Criddle from stabbing anyone in the future for pouring out her vodka? The next thing you are going to tell me is that someone with 3 prior DUI's with property damage can get them expunged and even get a real estate license after being involved in a pyramid scheme of giving away vacations and lying about it on their application for a real estate license (they ask if anything has been expunged and for all of your arrests) because they chant Bill Wilson.

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alkieanon

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 21:01

You mean that Alcoholics Anonymous is not responsible for the behavior for people under the influence of alcohol?

That's called OPF's loophole blame game card.

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alkieanon

Fri, 08/10/2012 - 07:20

Six weeks before the court hearing?

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 20:53

JR, if you bothered to check, I had a real estate license in SC. I don't recall being asked about anything on the application, but I doubt it would cover much of anything that didn't have to do with breaches of fiduciary duty. Did you check the application for yourself? I didn't need one in MD to sell for the builder. I also never lied about pyramids or anything else. I got my license before 2007, and that defendant was a woman with a similar name that lives in Longs, SC. A brief check would have told you that.

I do believe I can gain some improvement, JR, on the DUIs. Let's wait it out and see. I also only had ONE DUI with property damage. It helps to keep your facts straight, as Vicky attests. I appreciate those that brought these issues to the forefront so that they could be remedied.

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 21:05

Plus any and all DUI arrests get logged into the DMV databases and they can't be expunged by the criminal court systems....

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Thu, 08/09/2012 - 21:19

Not through the Criminal Court, but it can be through the DMV. The material says so. You are forgetting a few details.

It also not only depends on the charge, but also the disposition of the case. I was acquitted of two of the charges, one was stetted, and the last one included the agreement of expungment upon successful completion of probation. I accepted the plea since I wanted to fully relocate to SC, and the judge promised unsupervised so that could be realized.

It helps to read the material and to know more of the facts, JR. Thank you for your help. I feel confident there will be some improvement.

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causeandeffect

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 21:40

No, susan, that woman wasn't from Long SC. Apparently she lived under the same roof as you did and had exactly the same name as you do. Boy the coincidence of that!

BTW, you might want to read that brochure...

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Fri, 08/10/2012 - 07:03

It's happened before to me, C&E, but that isn't what happened here. I sent you a PM with the information that she she was being sued along with her husband by MA. I also called Elizabeth Sarantini for an explanation and not only did she explain it to me per SC law re: common names so she could gain clear title to the property, she is willing to explain it to anyone else that calls her regarding it. I gave her permission to you, Teresa. Be sure to remember that she is on Eastern time. You will also notice that I was NOT living at that address in 2007. You will also notice that whatever the circumstance is, the issue was dismissed.

The party associated with MA's suit is not me, and I do not know him. I thank you for bringing it to the forefront so that I am never blindsided by it. I appreciate it.

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