Today, I reported on a repeat drunk driver accused of crashing into an innocent commuter in Federal Way. Witnesses ran him down and held him until police arrived.
Last week, I reported on a teenager dying, her boyfriend critically injured, after a repeat drunk driver hit them while driving the wrong way down I-5.
Two in two weeks.
Just months ago, a Redmond woman blew a record .47, only to have her record beat the following month in Pierce Coutny by another woman blowing a .50.
How many chances should these offenders get? How many people innocent people will suffer?
2 Comments
Linda said:
As long as our elected officials are out there getting DUI's of their own, what would be the incentive to pass a law that would REALLY punish offenders?
a former drunk said:
HOW MANY CHANCES ? ? ?
NONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Drink and drive ... get caught...game over !!!
The rest of the comunity should not be subjected to someone elses selfish idiocy ! Using a "Disease" as an excuse is just that..AN EXCUSE ! Stop whining and expecting sympathy for your disease. NO-ONE feels sorry for you. I have the same disease... but like any other illness, whining does not overcome any illness. I was a drunk - I got help and no longer drink. Later , I got cancer .. I got help and no longer have cancer ... and I still did not drink. Later , I was diagnosed with an incurable auto-immune disease that causes my own immune system to slowly and continually munch away at my own body ...I have gotton help , I live in reality , and through more than a dozen surgeries and two very close brushes with death from disease ....I STILL DON'T DRINK ! I am not stronger than anyone else , I am no better or worse than anyone else, I just know I have no right to subject innocent peoples lives,safety, wellbeing , to utter selfishness.
Drinking and driving should NEVER, EVER be treated by the courts or anyone as a second chance situation. Stop whininng and grow up ! "It's hard" is the common excuse for a drunk. Ya get what ya ask for !
As long as our elected officials are out there getting DUI's of their own, what would be the incentive to pass a law that would REALLY punish offenders?
HOW MANY CHANCES ? ? ?
NONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Drink and drive ... get caught...game over !!!
The rest of the comunity should not be subjected to someone elses selfish idiocy ! Using a "Disease" as an excuse is just that..AN EXCUSE ! Stop whining and expecting sympathy for your disease. NO-ONE feels sorry for you. I have the same disease... but like any other illness, whining does not overcome any illness. I was a drunk - I got help and no longer drink. Later , I got cancer .. I got help and no longer have cancer ... and I still did not drink. Later , I was diagnosed with an incurable auto-immune disease that causes my own immune system to slowly and continually munch away at my own body ...I have gotton help , I live in reality , and through more than a dozen surgeries and two very close brushes with death from disease ....I STILL DON'T DRINK ! I am not stronger than anyone else , I am no better or worse than anyone else, I just know I have no right to subject innocent peoples lives,safety, wellbeing , to utter selfishness.
Drinking and driving should NEVER, EVER be treated by the courts or anyone as a second chance situation. Stop whininng and grow up ! "It's hard" is the common excuse for a drunk. Ya get what ya ask for !
Drinkning and driving...One up ...ONE DOWN!