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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: DWI Crackdowns and Car Confiscation
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 08:34:18 EDT
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The car confiscation solution to drunk driving may be full of holes, but
I have a feeling that it would work for probably 85% of the cases.  Someone
who is rich enough would probably just hire a driver to squire them
around if they planned on a bender.  It would be cheaper.  It would
eliminate rich drunk drivers.  It would put the fear into all of the rest
of the drunk drivers.  Nothing we do will ever stop drunk driving.  But,
we have to try and make a dent in the current problem.  Car confiscation
seems to be start in that direction.  Sure there will be cases where the family
may be put into jeopardy, and provisions would have to be made for those cases.
No law or rule could ever hope to stop every problem, but a start has to be
made to address the problem in a more severe manner.
T. C. Wheeler