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...walked up to the front door, he opened it and for some reason wanted to vomit. He tried to place his hand up to his mouth but couldn’t stop the vomit spraying out of his mouth and onto Ada’s new carpet. It spread almost to the end of the hallway covering most of the carpet. It was a mess. Ada was not happy.
Bundy went down stairs to the laundry and in his drunken stupor undressed himself taking his new suit and placed it into a washing tub full of water allowing it to soak. He went to bed. Next morning he was ambushed by Ada who was so very angry and disappointed with Bundy from his actions the day before.
When he arrived at work there was further disappointment for Bundy with Alex not being very happy by his actions. Peter ed about Bundy’s vomit hitting him on his head while he was holding the paper up to stop it.
Eventually, all had been forgiven once more. How many more times, before Bundy is forgiven until something would be done about his drinking behaviour. Luckily he didn’t drink all of the time, but when he did, he made up for the times he didn’t drink.
Not long afterwards Bundy and Alex where called to assist other detectives in a nearby town with a murder investigation. Bundy was in his element. He couldn’t be paired off with Alex because each of them weren’t familiar with the local people nor knew where to go. Bundy was paired off with a detective whom he’d known from his teenage days. He acquainted himself with this detective named Graham...

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...‘Do you remember me, I was one of those hoons you kicked up the arse when I was a teenager?’ He said to him.
‘It must’ve done you all right, you’re here aren’t you.’ Graham replied.
‘Yeah, all thanks to you.’ He was overwhelmed with joy to think he was working with a person who’d kept him on the straight and narrow through his teenage years.
Eventually, the murder investigation was solved. Actually, it was Alex who solved the mystery because he’d identified the murderer from a previous encounter he’d had with him some years before. After the case was wound up, a carton of beer was presented for all the investigating officers to have.
Alex handed a stubby of beer to Bundy saying, ‘you only have one - if you spew over me when we’re going home, I’ll lock you in the bloody boot of the car.’ He was serious.
It’d been a couple of months since Bundy had ‘got into trouble’ about his drinking behaviour. He was once again allowed to work by himself. One Friday evening he was working the evening shift. After his workmates had finished their shift they went over to the hotel. Bundy went with them for a couple of beers before his meal break. As usual, his workmates left after having a couple of drinks leaving Bundy at the bar drinking.
It was well past his meal break before he returned to the police station. The desk Sergeant called out to him, ‘Where the bloody hell have you been, we’ve been looking for you everywhere. These’s a fellow at one of the pubs smashed his...

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'Confessions of an alcoholic - Page 88:

...mate in the face with a glass. His mate is at the hospital and they have him at the hotel. You better get around there.’
Bundy had been drinking for about four hours so he was fairly intoxicated by that time of the night. Instead of driving a police vehicle to the hotel, he decided to walk to give himself time to sober up. The culprit was already detained so he wasn’t going anywhere. When he walked from the police station to the hotel, he was trying to gather his wits.
When he arrived where the suspect was being detained, Bundy sobered up a little, but not enough. His thoughts became clearer as he entered the lounge where the ‘would be’ offender was being held.
After introducing himself to him, there was no sign of a weapon or remains of the glass used by the offender to smash his mate’s face. Bundy quickly sobered enough to ask the offender to walk with him back to the police station. Both Bundy and the offender were intoxicated. ‘Where’s your car?’ He said.
‘I didn’t drive - I walked. I’ve had a few drinks and you look like you’ve had a few too. We’ll have a walk around the block first to sober up before we go to the police station.’ Bundy replied.
‘Yeah, sounds good. A walk will sober me,’ He replied.
They walked around the block returning to the police station and by the time they arrived at the office both had been talking to one another about what had happened...

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...Actually, Bundy didn’t have to interrogate the offender for he had sufficient evidence to support a charge.
When the offender appeared at the court the following morning, he wanted to have the charge heard and to plead ‘guilty’. The offender wanted the matter over and done with, which would have satisfied Bundy no end. Unfortunately, the Magistrate hearing the court case decided it was much too serious a case and remanded it for a higher court hearing. Bundy was in trouble again.
To Bundy’s surprise when the court case came up for hearing, a Queens Counsel who was regarded as the highest authority for the defence represented the offender. Bundy packed the ‘shits’. He had to tell the truth about the evening and about his drinking and was giving his evidence under oath.
On the morning of the court hearing Bundy said silently to himself, if I get out of this jam, I’m definitely going to do something about my drinking.
He answered with honesty the questions asked by the defence counsel involving his drinking on the night including his state of intoxication at the time of interviewing his client. By telling the truth actually helped Bundy.
Unfortunately Bundy didn’t take any notice of his own advice. Not long after the court case, he was involved with another court hearing this time in the city. Herbert and Bundy were the investigating officers. After the court hearing, Bundy was happy to return home because the...

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...hearing had completed earlier than expected. Herbert had different ideas.
On their leaving the court hearing Herbert said to Bundy, ‘How much money have you got on you? My horse is racing this afternoon and the trainer thinks it can win.’
‘I haven’t got very much at all.’ Bundy replied.
‘We’ll have to stop at the bank and get some out before we get to the races.’ Herbert said.
That afternoon Bundy witnessed Herbert’s horse win a race at the price of 50 to 1. He won $2,000.00. He was overly excited and overjoyed with his win he suddenly forgot about going home. They stopped at a hotel on their journey home to have a drink and celebrate their winnings.
By the time Bundy arrived home, the time was almost eleven o’clock. Ada was waiting for him to arrive home because her sister and husband had arrived to have dinner with them.
The moment Bundy walked into the house, Ada screamed about being late again, and being drunk. Bundy didn’t care what she was saying all he wanted to do was to tell her about his winnings. Walking along the hallway toward the kitchen area, he felt a spray of peas strike the wall beside him, at the same time hearing Ada voicing her disappointment about him being home late again and drunk. Luckily, for Bundy none of the peas from the tin struck him, instead busted against the hallway wall landing onto the floor.
Ada was ropeable and visibly upset with Bundy. He displayed a huge grin on his face, which didn’t help the situation and greeted his visitors and...

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...pulled fifty-dollar notes from his pockets and threw them onto the kitchen table.
Ada couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Bundy kept pulling money from his pockets, throwing it onto the table in front of her. There was so much money; it almost covered the whole of the table area.
‘I won at the races.’ He couldn’t contain his excitement.
Even after twenty years Ada’s sister still recalls how she witnessed her sister throwing a tin of peas at him and how he threw money from his pockets onto the table. She hadn’t seen so much money in all of her life before that time. They all 'laugh' about the event each time they’d get together remembering how it used to be for them as young married couples.
Shortly afterwards Ada gave her ultimatum to Bundy either to ship up or to ship out. All was not good in the Bundy household; also his work was being affected by his drinking behaviour. Something had to stop. Bundy searched through his database of ‘drinking’ finally understanding that ‘he had no control over alcohol’.
It was now up to him to STOP drinking alcohol and change his life to be able to live a life without alcohol. This event became the greatest challenge Bundy had ever undertaken in his life. He was going to be SUCCESSFUL.
Even more importantly was his promise he made to Ada – I PROMISE I WILL NEVER DRINK ALCOHOL AGAIN!...

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Chapter 5

...It would take time for him to change and didn’t matter how much time because he had the remainder of his life to do so. At least now he was determined to stop drinking alcohol and try to stay sober.
After analysing his life of drinking alcohol, one immediate thought always entered his mind, he realised he had a problem with alcohol. Now was the time to accept the problem and to do something about it.
At the time of this very important self-discovery he didn’t think he needed help from anyone else to stop his drinking. He knew what he had to do, was to finally take control over his need for alcohol. He firmly believed alcohol had control over him, and for him to have control over alcohol, he had to stop drinking it. He couldn’t accept he was an alcoholic. His vision of an alcoholic was a drunken person lying in the gutter. If he didn’t take this action, at this moment as he had done, there was no doubt in his mind he would one day have been found in the gutter later on in his life.
He was lucky to have Ada condemn his drinking behaviour on the 13th January 1977. Ada gave him the ‘kick up the bum’ at the appropriate time so he could have a good look at himself.
Life for Bundy became more easily than he had been used to. For instance, he was handling his work more easily without thinking he needed to drink alcohol to make it work...

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