Zachery Ty Bryan is headed to jail for 16 months stemming from a 2024 DUI arrest – and this time, he’s not walking away with probation.
Link to post since mbin is a little… broken right now.
Zachery Ty Bryan is headed to jail for 16 months stemming from a 2024 DUI arrest – and this time, he’s not walking away with probation.
Link to post since mbin is a little… broken right now.
from the article:
“Court docs show Bryan also admitted to having two prior DUI convictions, putting him in even hotter water. If he ever gets hit with a fourth, the penalties only get harsher.”
There is the problem right there. How many chances do those with DUI charges deserve? It’s just more passes for them to seriously hurt or kill someone.
We know that it’s his third DUI case in a courtroom, but how many times did he actually sit behind the wheel shitfaced? I’d assume dozens, if not hundreds of times with varying degrees of alcohol related impairment.
Oh most definitely.
Honestly, zero. I’ve always said first drunk driving offense should be immediate, permanent revocation of license. First offense. Zero tolerance.
It’s bad enough to deal with regular mistakes and texters. DUI offenses are treated so casually it’s actually a meme.
Maybe after a very strict re-training. And signing something acknowledging EXTREME consequences if they get caught again.
And none of this pleading out stuff, either. Even if they’re just sleeping drunk in the driver seat in a parking lot. No mercy.
Extreme penalties like that cause other problems. We should be focusing on rehabilitation, not revenge.
We should also focus on making life less car dependent.
In a LOT of areas, a vehicle is the only way to have a decent job. If you take that away for a single infraction, you’re dooming a lot of people to a low standard of living.
(I live in one of those areas, so I know. It has some public transportation, but it doesn’t go through residential areas, so you can only get between business areas, and a little bit of downtown.)
In a perfect world, that alone would solidify the push to be less car dependent, but we can’t even rise above Nazis, so that’s not happening before there’s another digit on the year number.
Driving is clearly better left to professionals, generally speaking. I wish it was all buses driven by people with excellent teaching and capability, but getting that kind of fleet up and running would take a lot of time. Driving would be a huge job market suddenly.
And danger would plummet. No one would need to outrun anyone, or need a nap, or be distracted. You could have a fairly low age of oldest driver as well.
But for now, FAFO.