Disenablers: a wife, a kid and Elton John
Disenablers of the month:
Afra Sandifar, who while watching the evening news blurted out to her husband of six months, Troy Sandifar, 45, “Honey, you’re on the news for robbing a bank!” He immediately grabbed the loot and ran from his Manatee, Florida home; she called police and turned him in. Officers found Troy sitting in his car trying to eat the rock cocaine he’d bought with the cash. Afra said, “I’m not going to hide something like that. He needs to be sentenced and go into a program….”
The nine-year-old daughter of Latanya Evans, 49, who passed a note to a bank teller saying her mother was too drunk to drive and she didn’t want to ride in the car with her. When they left, the little girl refused to get in the car. While Evans drove off without her daughter, the teller reported the incident to police, who arrested the mother for DUI a short distance from the bank. Evans has had her license suspended five times, at least twice for DUI. She was convicted of child endangerment in 2002. Perhaps this very bright daughter has said she doesn’t want to live with her mother, but nobody is listening.
Elton John, scoffing at Billy Joel’s attempts at sobriety, telling reporters: “When I went to rehab, I had to clean the floors. He goes to rehab where they have TVs. I love you, Billy, and this is tough love.”