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Again I'm not saying let the person get off with no punishment, I'm just asking if something other than many years in prison would be more effective?
Voted : Tough call
If only they had a way of figuring out how often the person drinks and drives and such...
My husband rarely EVER drinks and drives, but once in maybe every 5 years he does, so rare but still, good question. Since he has a family, good job, is a good citizen etc.
Great question Larry
Life is unforgiving. Life doesn’t care if a good person makes a bad decision. Life doesn’t judge nor grant Mulligans. The nicest guy in the world could have one beer too many and wind up in prison and a demented, dyslexic, alcoholic coke fiend can wind up being president. Basically, the more money you got, the less punishment you’ll do.
I drink like a fish, but I never drink and drive. The punishment may not fit the crime, but it’s the reality in which we live—so I don’t drink and drive. I don’t think it was just the “punishment” side of the deal that got me to quit drinking and driving. I think Jacqueline Saburido was the main reason I stopped.
Speaking of driving while impaired… driving drunk was child’s play compared to driving on acid.
^I have to agree.
But also, someone who you described as above, really should know better
by aya on Thu Jul 12, 07 11:10am
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You're right Aya, but that was 23 years ago (mas o menos)... good god, am I really that old?
Anyway, I was driving home from a Utep-Wyoming Basketball game. I thought I planned it perfectly. There was a minute or so to go and I thought UTEP had it won. I decided to drop. Unfortunately, the game went into overtime and I wound up DWT (driving while tripping). I was driving my mother's blue Cadillac and the hood looked like the fricking Pacific Ocean... those were the days!
Voted : Tough call
I don't know what I could say into this one way or the other. I've never driven drunk, and I don't know anyone who's come to any measure of harm because of a drunk driver. The only person I do know who's done this is my younger sister, and she did so twice. I can't even cite her as part of a case study in this anyway because, even when sober, she's nowhere near in her right mind. I don't see incarceration as an option, because that only chews up needed space to contain dangerous felons (rapists, murderers, pedophiles, etc). But many out-prison options have limited success, because the rates of recitivitism (sp?) are almost on a par with those of pedophiles, up in the stratosphere. It's almost the classic no-win scenario.
If only they had a way of figuring out how often the person drinks and drives and such..." by socal_sweetie
That I guess is one of the problems, if it was a one time mistake or if the person drove drunk many times before and his luck finally ended, causing death or injury.
Like you said truth, if a person keeps doing this over and over , not too many options.
Basically, the more money you got, the less punishment you’ll do. by elvislennon
It's sad the justice system seems to work that way
Voted : Tough call
Maybe jail for a second or third offense?
not only should he be punished, but he should be locked up for life, all his possession liquidated to pay for the victim and his families, and mandatory labor for rest of his life should be forwarded to the children of the deseased.
what about responsibility? who put a gun to his head and made him drive drunk and kill someone ?
by LCD on Mon Nov 12, 07 12:28am
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