The drunk driving laws seem to be getting out of hand these days.

While I have no problem with laws designed to keep intoxicated persons from operating automobiles on public roads, there are a few things that really irk me.

You can easily get nailed in places for simply doing the right thing and it is a crock. In many places you could stumble out of someplace and decide to be responsible and lock your keys in the trunk and hop in the back seat to sleep it off and wake up in jail.

That ain't right.

Of course, our lawmakers will mumble something about how the non-driver had some sort of control of the vehicle and yada yada yada but it is really a crock. The reason the poor slob really went to jail has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with the state taking his money from him.

Things like this are nothing more than revenue generation at it's worst.

While there are quite a few law enforcement types that would look at someone sleeping it off in the back of his car and say, "God bless you!" there are also quite a few that would look at this as an easy bust to feather their conviction record. Not all policemen have common sense, compassion and a sense of humor.

Insurance companies love this sort of thing because they get to clobber someone with higher rates even though he was being responsible.

It seems to be getting to the point that the laws get stiffer and stiffer over nothing. I keep wondering where it is going to end.

I suppose some lawmaker would just love to see it so they can nail Grandma Botts for having her grandson's spare car key at her home and a 25 year old unopened bottle of Bourbon in the cabinet.

They will justify this by saying she could have walked 36 miles to her grandson's car and driven it because she had the key because she was equipt to drive said vehicle.

Of course, by their reasoning they could probably bust the poor woman for prostitution based on the fact that she was born with equiptment to be one.

WHile the laws preventing driving while impaired are probably necessary they should not be misused to stick it to the poor slob that is trying to be responsible.

If you are not operating the vehcle, you are not driving. If you are not driving you should not be treated like you are.

Period.







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