I like how the Germans do the drunk driving thing, a serious punishment for a serious crime. You get caught once, just once, in a totally blitzed state of being while operating an automobile and your driving days are done until court appearance, license revoked, say goodbye to that privilege you inconsiderate shmuck. It boggles my mind how a person can get inebriated, drive away, maybe cause a life ending accident or not (11,700 alcohol related driving deaths in 2008) and think “as long as I didn‘t hurt anyone” it’s okay. In Wisconsin, it isn’t until you’ve been caught drunk driving for the fourth time that you get served with a felony. I ask, why not the first?!
Look at it this way, driving drunk kills almost as many people as gun related homicides. Its just common sense to bust drunks who don’t kill anyone the same way we’d bust a guy shooting into a crowd that doesn’t kill anyone. A guy shooting into a crowd doesn’t get another chance, why should the drunks…
This drives me crazy as well!!! Something needs to change.
There is hardly a topic that raises my ire as much as this one…
Totally agree… So many people just get their licenses right back. The funny thing is that instead of having stricter punishments they instead lower the “legally drunk” levels so that now they are laughable. Maybe they should have harsher penalties especially for repeat offenders.