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From: dbrown@avsdT.BERKNET (Dennis Brown)
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Subject: Re: DWI Crackdowns and Car Confiscation; possible answer?
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 10:42:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 10:42:43 1985
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> 
> In article <123@unc.unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes:
> >Confiscating cars used by drunk drivers only complicates matters.
> >Just fine the driver $5,000.  If he can't pay, then sell the dept
> >to a collection agency, or require him to work it off in community
> >service (ideally including all Friday and Saturday evenings).
> 
> Fines are not at all a fair punishment.  Some people won't notice
> the loss of $5,000; others will go broke without the income from
> their second job (in the evenings).  Just requiring community
> service would be better.
> 
> Really, this whole discussion is rather silly.  The current laws are
> quite adequate, and provide appropriate penalties.  They can be
> enforced as people become aware that drunk driving really is a serious
> offense.  This seems to be happening.
> 
> >By the way, drunk driving, with all its dangers, has been around for decades.
> >Why did everybody wait till the last couple of years to jump on the
> >anti-drunk-driving bandwagon?  Is this the new fad of the year?
> 
> Yes.

Be that as it is, the problem is there and something must be done!
If the people who are busted for DWI are put to labour for the county,
and or state for a give period of time, no matter what there income is,
to bad if you lose you job dummy you can not drink and drive, then I feel
that will be a more fair way to deal with this problem. The law is for the
protection of the people, I wonder about that sometimes! I hope that this
is not a fad but that it will wake up some people to the problem and that
something will finally be done with this horrable problem. .......