RE: Will someone PLEASE buy me this??
Well put, TC. Some guy gets a DUI, and since it's his first offense, he can "buy" a diversion, so that he keeps his license and keeps driving. Ooops, got popped again, so this time he spends 48 hours in jail, bonds out, loses his license, pays a relatively small fine.....but keeps driving anyway, because, by gosh, his car still starts even though he doesn't have a license!!! What a hoot! So, he goes out, get plastered again.....back in court, pays another fine, spends 5 days in jail, gets community service and still no license. I'll be darned, even probation and a stern slap on the wrists won't keep that car from starting. So, to celebrate his recent return to society, he gets smashed, kills a whole family, and winds up in jail again. With a good lawyer, he pays a slightly higher fine, gets sentenced to 5 years for vehicular homicide. Out in 18 months because of good behavior, only to start the car again......Ain't our justice system grand? That's one of the biggest problems with the system now, is that the toughest thing they can throw at them right off the bat is losing their license....big deal. I can't remember the figures exactly, but recently the Wichita Eagle ran a story about unlicensed drivers in the city, somewhere around 15% of all the drivers have either had their licenses suspended or never had one in the first place. They need to toughen up the laws on DUI. Something like 85% (still can't remember exact figures, but that's close) of all DUI offenders are repeat offenders. There were just over 100 drivers in Wichita that had more than 5 DUI convictions that were still driving!!!! Do the math, 100 out of 400,000 population in Wichita alone. One out of every 4000 drivers on the road in Wichita has had over 5 DUI convictions?!? I can't remember how many of them had two or more, but it was a butt load. There is a serious flaw in the DUI laws, no doubt.