Reply #77: In New Mexico, yes. The rate of fatalities due to drunk driving here [View All]

[mudplanet]

is shocking. And half the time when you read about these incidents the drunk has had six, seven, even eleven fines for DUI (no exaggeration)! He or she is now driving without a license and having a license plate that screams "check me out" might be a help.

Frankly, after six in a lifetime I'd prescribe a couple of years in jail. But in New Mexico (and, I suspect, some other states) the drunk is often so well connected locally that they continue to cut them loose.

I don't drive much, but about every 10th time I'm out on the road I witness a drunk, as indicated by 1)running a stop light and crossing three lanes of traffic to make a left turn, or 2) weaving continually in and out of the lane.

You want to be a drunk, knock yourself out. Crawl into a hole someplace and drink yourself to death. But don't get behind the wheel of a vehicle.

I hate control freaks, but I'm pretty sick of picking up the paper to find an entire family murdered by some drunk driving the wrong way on the interstate, and that he has seven prior convictions for DUI. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me seven times, I deserve what I get.

They remind me of the character Cain in "Year One."
"Oh, no. Look what I've done."
"Oh, no. Look what I've done again."
"Oh, no. Look what I continue to do again and again."

That many DUI's might as well get you confined permanently to a mental institution as a dangerous sociopath.