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Nov 15, 2:42 AM EST
Senator from New Port Richey proposes pink DUI plates
...and then we can get yellow ones for the JewsCLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- A Republican senator wants a law to require bright pink license plates on vehicles driven by people with restricted driving privileges due to convictions for driving under the influence.
Sen. Mike Fasano, of New Port Richey, filed a bill earlier this month that requires the first three characters on the plate to read "DUI."
"Maybe it will embarrass people and keep them from drinking and driving," Fasano said. "Maybe they'll think twice."
The bill also says police "may stop any vehicle that bears a DUI plate without probable cause to check the driver."
I wonder if W and Laura would have to comply?
Is being wasted a racial or religious group? Life, liberty and the pursuit of getting hammered?
Stiffer punishments are fine, but I think the permanence of something like this is silly and unnecessary. You also risk creating a "badge of honor" for some people, particularly college students. I think it could do more harm than good.
whats worse? taking a DUI's rights away or the DUI subject taking an innocent family's life away??? Besides, probation officers can go into the house of the person on probation whenever they want and do a search with no probable cause, whats the difference?
being left alone by the ing pigs is a right, however
These guys don't get it.
Take away their ing cars. That'll get their attention.
Yep. Drunken driving is nothing. Just like jaywalking. Yep.
The best thing to do would be to take away their driver licenses
When has that ever stopped anyone? If they'll drive drunk, I seriously doubt they'd have a problem driving without a license.
I'm sure it stops plenty of people
So. like, if you are nailed driving home after two BIG communion sips at church, is that ok? (Just asking for a guy I know, ya know...)
Will pink plates stop them?
Not if they but a shaggin wagon. Colors won't matter then.
Would the prospect of pink plates encourage gays or Mary Kay salespeople to drive drunk?
^At best it'd be a metro thing.
Is this the new thing for Democrats? Advocacy politics for drunk drivers?
What's next, are you going to speak out for rapists and child molesters?
Will you have a "Friend of NAMBLA" bumper sticker next to your pink license plate?
There is such thing as a responsible, law abiding drunk driver? They get busted and then learn the error of their ways? Maybe a few...but I don't think it's a huge deterrant. I've known too many people that have not been affected by a loss of or suspended license. Unless they get pulled over, who's going to know, right? How many people are driving around without insurance right now? That's illegal as well.
The best pink plates would do is make less people want to borrow your car.
Heaven forbid that they actually teach people driving skills and ways to stay awake in driver's ed/defensive driving.
Some people are addicts and alcoholics and aren't going to stop driving drunk just because they were told not to by MADD or a public service announcement.
Driving while intoxicated is not right, and is rightfully against the law. But I think we would have a lot less accidents and fatalities if people are actually instructed in ways of keeping awake and alert and more advanced accident avoidance during driver training. I worked for Schlumberger right out of college, my job involved driving great distances across the California desert, sometimes after being up for 30, 40 even 50 hours at a time (52 hrs is my record). Their driver training was excellent, and they mentioned that a lot of the research in accidents was studying the body shutting down, reducing temperature and brain activity and going to sleep at certain times of the day within the normal body cycle, the circadian rythym. Add a depressant to that, and now you know why so many accidents occur around 12-2 PM. It is actually the worst possible time that a bar could close and "send home" it's occupants.
It's really simple. If you drive under the influence, you spend 2 years getting ass-raped. No exceptions. That would be a good start.
They say half of all accidents are caused by drunk/drinking drivers. I say lets get the sober one's off the road and reduce accidents by half.
Take away their cars -- those s need to be sentenced to a lifetime of taking the bus.
Millions drive without insurance, but I'm sure that drunk drivers wouldn't dare driving without a license/if they took their car away.
I think that everyone agrees that enforcement of current DWI laws is difficult at best and a drop in the bucket compared to the number of actual intoxicated drivers.
The problem isn't that drivers are drinking, it's that they are getting in accidents and killing people because of their gross neglegence. Do we want to continue to further criminalize the cause or try to prevent the after effects? I personally don't give a if someone is an alcoholic but somehow maintains responsible driving habits when drunk. I do give a when a dumbass who can't handle their liquor kills me, my family, or some of my friends. Or even when a sober person falls asleep at the wheel. A lot of people fall asleep when driving. Is it illegal to pass out? That'll sure keep sleepy people from driving, the bas s.
Mandatory breathilizers in every car.
I actually don't think that's that bad of an idea ...
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