That time a fan tried to knock Jake Roberts off the wagon

[Burst]

Am I just imagining that this happened? I want to say at some point in the last few years, Jake had been sober for a good period of time (can't remember if it was before or after he started working with DDP) and had an appearance at some indy wrestling show, might have even just been a signing, and some fan took it upon themselves to bring him booze and get him started drinking, and then went online and bragged about it afterwards. And I want to say this caused a major relapse for Jake.

This came up because I was talking to a friend about how people really, really don't take substance disorders seriously in terms of enabling people, especially in regards to alcoholism. Been dealing with a mutual friend with a bad drinking problem who is constantly enabled because the people he's living with don't seem to give a shit about keeping booze around someone that has been struggling with it, and this was the first thing that came to mind.

It's such a cringe-inducing story, and yet something that I honestly wouldn't put past a certain subset of wrestling fans.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

I think it wasn't a fan, it was the Honkytonk man, there was a thread about it a while back now, though I wouldn't be surprised if a-hole fans tried it too.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

I don't get this. I mean, what do you prove by enabling an addict?

Other than proving that you're a f***ing prick, of course.

[jason1980s]

Mar 6, 2016 17:44:38 GMT -5 Bob Schlapowitz said:

Other than proving that you're a f***ing prick, of course.

My guess is, a fellow wrestler would do it to bring the recovering addict back down to a smaller level. For someone like Jake, he is doing so good, his story/documentary is getting high praise, I bet a wrestler would want to bring him down and in turn that would make that wrestler feel better about themselves. It's a bad thing to think.
I worked with the homeless for many years and many of the clients are addicts and many detest seeing their fellow homeless get into recovery and get on their feet.

[sdjonesbackhole]

as a former addict myself, I hate when poeple put the blame on others for their problems quiting or relapsing.

[taker1990]

Mar 6, 2016 16:01:37 GMT -5 The Dark Order Inferno said:

I think it wasn't a fan, it was the Honkytonk man, there was a thread about it a while back now, though I wouldn't be surprised if a-hole fans tried it too.

I never liked HTM and that shows why.

[jmule]

On his DVD he mentioned guys in the back taunting him t drink then taker stood up for him

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Mar 7, 2016 2:00:11 GMT -5 sdjonesbackhole said:

as a former addict myself, I hate when poeple put the blame on others for their problems quiting or relapsing.

If Jake was tempted back to drink by seeing others drinking then blames them, then sure, but when people know a friend has a problem but set out to tempt/peer pressure them into drinking anyway then they absolutely should be blamed. HTM is a sack of excrement for what he tried to do to Jake.