| I hear you, it is sad when it happens to people who had 3 drinks and got busted their first time ever and they loose there job and license. But, it saves lives when they pull over a couple teenagers that are coming back from a party or some older guy who has been drinking all day at the course and gets in and drives, only to crash into a carpooling party of 6 in a SUV at the next light. I think that the checkpoints are great. I don't know about other states, but here the checkpoints are usually right on the freeway on-ramp, so it prevents drunks from entering the highway, or even people who had 3 drinks, they still should not be driving. Some people can have 3 drinks and you can't tell, some are already barley walking.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against having fun; Golf is all about recreation, but some people over due it especially the leagues. They go out and get plastered at the courses, it is usually a select few out of the bunch and then they go off and just get in their cars and think nothing of it. |