The title may be a little mild, given that I've not actually had my life ruined by one of these dickheads. But after a very, very busy shift, it is altogether accurate.
Does anyone think drink-driving is a good idea?
Survey says: no. I doubt anyone would give a response better than neutral on this one.
Are people told daily about the dangers of drink-driving?
Survey says: yes. Repeatedly.
And yet, I took two separate calls last night about cars that had crashed on stretches of road that were deceptively straight, and the pissed-as-a-newt drivers had attempted to call a cab and get out of there.
How stupid can you get, people? Honestly? Did you honestly think that what you were doing was a good idea? What could have possibly possessed you? How could anyone able to speak be so gobsmackingly stupid as to drive a car while off their face?
We need to bring back pillories. Chain these idiots up and have members of the public they put at risk throw rotten fruit at them and call them names they richly deserve. Maybe even have people permanently disqualified from driving have 'Bloody Idiot' branded on their foreheads. Because it's not just themselves they're endangering, it's everyone with the misfortune to be anywhere near the vehicle, whether they want to be or not.
I can understand drink-driving where it's a matter of exceeding the limit slightly - it's possible to miscalculate the amount of alcohol and the amount of time needed to get rid of it. I'm not saying any special leniency should be shown to people over the limit, ever, but I don't have contempt for people who wind up inadvertently drink-driving like that.
But it's the people who are in no doubt aware of their intoxication who point large, heavy weapons at all and sundry just to prove some untrue point (e.g. "I'm not pissed") who need to have the message beat into them.
And you know what?
Even pillories and branding wouldn't stop it.
They're just too fucking stupid.
4 comments:
I think that the pillories are a good idea...but I would go further...remove their right to drive, permanently.
Also if the driver/fucking-idiot should harm or kill someone then then should have their licence removed permanently, not be allowed to earn any more money than what they need to survive and be forced to do 40 hours of community service (evangelising safe driving etc.) a week.
I am sick to death of people killing others (accidentally and intentionally) and getting two years. Fuck that! You get four for fraud. I say give the murderers 50 years hard fucking labour, thats right, bring back the chain gangs. Or better yet: toxic waste clean up...send the fuckers to environmentally fucked up areas and let them clean the shit up. Eventually they will die and never be released.
You do realise that removing the license of these morons isn't going to stop them from driving. Why would they respect that law when it's clear they don't respect the drink-driving one.
No my friends, the only way to completely stop people from driving when they shouldn't is to remove their limbs.
All of them.
A rather permanent solution to the problem, but I think it would be effective at stopping recidivist offenders.
Grant, James is right in that removing someone's license does not stop them from driving. There are people out there who have been permanently disqualified from driving who still get pulled up. Permanent disqualification does happen, but by the time someone's achieved it they're probably so much of a fuckhead it isn't going to stop them.
James's solution, however, works.
Two Words: Chain Gang
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