Well, I hope that you all made it through New Years safely. As for us, well, Tim and Bill stopped over, we had Beer, Pizza, Candy and a lot of other stuff. The kids had a great time too. We watched a stunt motorcycle rider pull off a jump over a football field to set a new world record which was fun. We thought that he was going to kill himself, but he did it flawlessly and made the jump look easy. To make his point, he turned around and did it again! Where was Robbie Knevil?
I hope you heard that there was a least one person who chose to drive drunk over New Years and wound up hitting another car "head on" and killing five people. This fellow not only killed five people, but in the process screwed up his own life forever. I feel sorry for both families. This should never have happened and I think it's about time that someone is held accountable other than just the driver. The bartender has to know when someone has had enough to drink. Maybe when someone enters a bar, they should buy passes for only three or four drinks. Put a number on a drink voucher and ink stamp the number on the hand of the buyer so they can't use someone elses ticket to buy more alcohol. We need to "limit" the amount of drinks that a person can buy per visit. A person should not be able to leave the bar and return later, once out, your out for the night. A person shold not be allowed to "Bar Hop" either. Maybe another way to control it would be to have drinkers register on the Internet, then given a number which could be checked at the door by bar owners. If the computer shows that a person has been at a bar that evening, then they should be denied entry. Most of the people who drink and drive, drink at a local bar close to their home. When they drink at home, they usually stay at home. Sorry bar owners, but something must be done, because you're not doing enough to stop this terrible problem. Some sort of limit should be put on drinkers because the more people drink the more their judgement is impaired, and many people don't even know how many drinks they've had after a while. Bar maids just keep coming around asking if they want another round. All the bar owners care about, is filling their cash registers! Someone needs to keep tabs, and stop people when they've had enough to drink. Another way to do it would be to take away their car keys and make them take a cab home, then pick up their keys the next day. In the wild west years ago, they used to take away guns before they could enter a bar, because they used to shoot one another after a few drinks! You have to take away the things that people use to hurt other people after drinking. Then it was guns, today it is cars, need I say more? At any rate, something more needs to be done to stop people from hurting other people, and I welcome any suggestions and will post them on my Blog. So lets hear what you think should be done to stop drunk driving.
