@zenvelo *_That is not the case many times. Until one of my neighbors lost his license, he drove drunk or over the limit many times; not only in this county but others he has lived in. He was amazed by what he learned in court ordered DUI class. He said he learned that for each time a drunk actually gets stopped and ticked by cops they have drove somewhere more than 2 miles drunk more than 60 times.
The number that ignore that warning and continue on to alcoholism is in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 %. So the need to put graphic pictures to deter 10 to 15 % is a little overblown. There are more percent of smokers? I don’t think so, and off that logic if there are not more smokers than drinkers why have graphic photos to try and deter a number much smaller?
@FPSMadPaul Because most people who drink don’t then drink and drive, why subject them to those horrific images? Most people don’t smoke, so why subject them to horrific or gross images?
@SuperMouse Fact from fiction truth from diction, will these pictures really do anything to stop or even decrease drunk driving deaths? I agree with you (bet you are shocked) that will not. What will is when some person is stopped driving inebriated you take his/her keys, tow the car, and cut the driver license in half and make them take a bus the rest of their life. Make it like a hand gun to an ex-con, even if you didn’t use a gun in your crime, you lose the right to have one, and since driving is a privilege and not a right they can’t bitch. No, it won’t take effect right away, it will take 50,000 to 300,000 chuckleheads nation wise to end up on the bus before people will start taking notice and stop doing it for fear of never driving again.
@johnpowell I first got wind of it off the TV, Nightline or the 11 o clock news or something, it popped out as one of the line of stories that grabbed my attention.
Here and here are some online content on it.