[daepp]

Report Drunk Drivers - Call 911

It started here with the electronic message boards - and it bothered me then. Now, it's billboards and highway signs galore. I can't help but think of the stories I used to hear about life behind the Iron Curtain, where everyone lived in fear of unknown snitches. People having conversations in their bathrooms so as to not be overheard. And snitches turning in the innocent for their own reasons/advantages.

And what's next? Why not:

- Report tax evaders
- Report illegal tuning
- Report bad drivers
- Report large collections of guns
- Report speeders
- Report shady looking dudes - maybe they're pedophiles
- Report excessive water usage
- Report smokers who smoke around children or in their cars

Are any of these that far away? Why just drunk drivers? And what is the cost to those reported on who are innocent? What happens to their reputations (and their wallets) when they have to defend themselves?

Is this the world we want to live in? Don't we have enough law enforcement in most cases? Aren't they the professionals in this arena? How did the American population survive all these years without encouraging narcs?