Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Drunk Driving Message-ID: <11359@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 16:37:40 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11359 Posted: Fri Jun 28 16:37:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:17:51 EDT References: <979@homxa.UUCP> <3893@alice.UUCP> <3108@drutx.UUCP> <761@burl.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 21 > Drinking and driving don't mix. You can't stop drinking; drinking of > itself is not (but well can be, I know) the problem. You also CANNOT > STOP DRUNKEN DRIVING WITHOUT OFFERING A REASONABLE ALTERNATIVE. Throwing > all drunk drivers in jail is not (in my view) a reasonable alternative; > trying to get them home safely and thereby keep other people safe is. > Casa Gallardo (a chain Mexican restaurant here in Greensboro) stopped > serving their 1-liter margaritas, and they also have a sign prominently > displayed on the wall in nice warm prose telling you that if you are > too drunk to drive home, the bartender will call you a cab and give > you a nice cup of coffee while you wait and THE RESTAURANT WILL PAY FOR > YOUR CAB RIDE HOME. I like it; keep them off the road in the first place! > -- The alternatives are there now and always have been. The problem is that people don't consider it convenient enough. To them driving drunk is not a concern, regardless of what systems are in place to provide them with other safe means of drinking. We need to stop treating drunk driving as it it were a parking violation and start dealing with it as the crime which it is. -Ron