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Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names

Posted by timothy on from the only-animal-that-blushes dept.

alphadogg contributes this snippet from Network World: "If you get busted for drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season, your neighbors may hear about it on Twitter. That's because the local district attorney's office has decided to publish the names of those charged with driving while intoxicated between Christmas and New Year's Eve. County Vehicular Crimes Prosecutor Warren Diepraam came up with the idea as a way of discouraging residents from getting behind the wheel while drunk. 'It's not a magic bullet that's going to end DWIs, but it's something to make people think twice before they get behind the wheel of a car and drive while they're intoxicated,' he said."

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  1. How to avoid this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Change your name to something longer than 140 characters.

  2. Re:First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    on the off chance that they run into a neighbor?

    I see what you did there...

  3. Re:Oh. by gothzilla · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't imagine a worse punishment than putting a woman's weight on twitter.

  4. Re:What? No Due Process? by wayland · · Score: 2, Funny

    Amusing that he mentions "dink and drive", because "dink" is Australian slang for having a second person riding a bicycle (ie. sitting on the handlebars).

    In addition to the "If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot" campaign, there was also a "Don't fool yourself; speed kills" campaign.  I once saw a sticker that said "Don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot".