I agree with IC about the punishment for DUI being a joke!

My co-employee's husband was just (2 1/2 weeks ago) in an accident where a drunk hit him, totaled & flipped the car, all his vertebrae in his neck and shoulder are ruptured, he will be an invalid for the rest of his life, he had a terrific job making great $$$ to support his family, now she will be the sole provider and they have 4 children ranging in age from 1 yr to 8 yrs old. They are a young couple, he is going for surgery and they do not even know if it will help him....the man who hit him is out of jail in one days time and rocks on, so he has screwed up Danny for life..... who gives a rats ass, let the filthy drunk go home, and hey he is just human and made a little mistake...aw poor drunk anyway! What about the father of four who will never be able to perform his job again, who gives a crap..........let him get on disability! Oh and the pain he is in, well he shoudn't have been driving home to his family after he got off from work, he should have walked and given the road over to the drunks who travel it so frequently!

And we all so easily feel sympathy for the drunk????????????

I grew up in a small town. There was 5 guys my age that I had grown up with. I didn't have much of a party life because I worked nights at the restaurant. One night my friends had been partying till about 2:00 in the morning. They left the party and were driving home. It was a Saturday night/Sunday morning and we were just closing up for the night. About 1/4 mile up the road from the restaurant they had their accident. All 5 were killed when they plowed into an on coming car and then into a monument. 7 people died that night. My 5 friends and a mother and her young daughter that were driving in the car that they had hit.
Losing all my friends in one accident was hard to take. For the longest time the accident was all anyone else would talk about. Taking the school bus by the accident scene every day was also hard to handle. What always got me, even to this day is that whenever the accident was talked about, very rarely did anyone ever mention the innocent mother and daughter that died that night too.

Both my parents were alcoholics and never saw a sober day. Dad wouldnt drive drunk so when my brother got old enough to drive he became the designated driver for them. I have no patience or sympathy for him or his punishment. He is lucky he didnt hurt someone driving like that. He blew so high he could have even passed out behind the wheel. Sad thing is I do not think it will change him at all. His parents are good people and have reached the point where they have given up on him.

Hopefully it's a slammer like the one in Mayberry! Wouldn't it be wonderful to be locked-up in the pokey and have Aunt Bea bringing ya picnic-baskets of fried chicken, jars of homemade dill pickels, cherry pies and thermas' of hot coffee?

Otis sure didn't mind the hospitality of Mayberry's jail. I think he had his own cell and an understanding that he could pass out in it when ever needed. Of course he didn't drive either. Maybe the hospitality cell idea is the key to drunk driving prevention.