It’s drastic, but I bet it would work.

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If you tend to only read the local news, you may have missed the news that rhino poachers in South Africa are now being shot dead   This seems to be rather drastic but I bet it helps lower the poaching incidents and I think that this approach would work for recidivist drink drivers. 

Here’s my plan (I’ll put it in place when I’m queen of the World):
  • 1.     You’re caught drink driving.  Naughty, naughty.  You get a fine, a slap on the wrist, a GPS tracker and blood alcohol measuring chip implanted deep in your body where you can’t cut them out yourself.
  • 2.     You don’t learn and/or think the rules don’t apply to you, so you go out for a few beers and drive home, maybe killing a few innocent people and lamp posts en route.
  • 3.     Implanted trackers send signals to police that you are travelling at greater than 5km an hour (avg. walking speed) and your blood alcohol level is above zero.
  • 4.     A chopper, complete with sniper, is launched.
  • 5.     Chopper locates you by your GPS signal and sees that you are driving a vehicle (car, motorcycle, invalid carriage, push bike – all deadly in the hands of a moronic drink driver).
  • 6.     Sniper shoots you dead.
  • 7.     No more drink driving problem.
This is a fair system.  You have one get out death free card with your first drink driving offence, plus the inserted chips should give you a massive hint, even through a drink driving, low IQ fuddled brain, that you are being monitored.  If you then choose to drink drive after your first offence and warning, then you only have yourself to blame when the sniper shoots you.   Bet you anything you like that this would work to reduce the number of drink drivers on our roads.



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