12th DWI Means Prison Time For Luck, Wisconsin Man

A man will go to prison for three years for his 12th drunken driving offense. Chippewa County Circuit Judge Thomas Sazama sentenced Wesley Rogers of Luck to the prison time, plus three years of extended ...

[Drunk Drivers are Killers]

This monster should have been locked up forever long ago. I favor a 3 strikes law for DUI. After your third offense you go to the can for life.

[What the heck]

12 arrest?? WOW! I am wondering why there is not, at the very least, an ignition interlock device on his vehicle. Hopefully he will also receive successful treatment for his addiction while in prison. May the cycle be broken once and for all.

[Diane Ganzer]

Obviously Wisconsin is the place to live if ya wanna drink and drive! In Minnesota where I live, the penalties are a lot stiffer. There is NO excuse, regardless of the state where you live, to drink and drive. NONE! you get into a three thousand pound weapon when you turn the key. Of course, how many drunk drivers die in an accident? RARELY! But they maim and kill all the time! Here's my idea of punishment...put them in a locked vehicle on the road. Have a drink driver slam into them at 85 MPH. Instant death...maybe for the both of them.
That'll teach 'em!

[Minnesota Man]

Minnesota is no better. I'm a ruthless traffic violator, NO DWI's, I'm a speeder. I've seen the crazy easy light sentences that MN hands out to drunk drivers. A guy that was driving after suspension for not paying a fine on time will do more time then a 3 time DWI driver in MN. I think that if you get 3 DWI's they should put you on Antabuse ! Antabuse is a drug that makes you violently sick if you drink alcohol. Your 1st DWI should be 90 days NO MATTER WHAT! Your 2nd DWI should be 9 months NO EXCEPTIONS! Your 3rd DWI 2 years & Antabuse time release implant. If you get more then 3 DWI's, you should go to prison for 5 years & spend LIFE on house arrest and get 5 more years EVERY TIME you violate your house arrest (house arrest lets you go to work, so you can PAY for house arrest & you have to go right home after work).

[PMccready]

Diane Ganzer wrote:

Obviously Wisconsin is the place to live if ya wanna drink and drive! In Minnesota where I live, the penalties are a lot stiffer. There is NO excuse, regardless of the state where you live, to drink and drive. NONE! you get into a three thousand pound weapon when you turn the key. Of course, how many drunk drivers die in an accident? RARELY! But they maim and kill all the time! Here's my idea of punishment...put them in a locked vehicle on the road. Have a drink driver slam into them at 85 MPH. Instant death...maybe for the both of them.
That'll teach 'em!

Well, that just about solves the problem. Instead of getting people who can't get their drinking under control lets kill them. I'm sure glad I have never drove after drinking, I wouldn't want to get lined up for your special brand of justice. I personally think we should start killing welfare cases they cost us more than drunk drivers, hell lets kill off single mothers and there little tax deductions too. Why dont you think before you speak you fuc*ing idiot.

[Jim - Minnestoa man]

PMccready wrote:

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Well, that just about solves the problem. Instead of getting people who can't get their drinking under control lets kill them. I'm sure glad I have never drove after drinking, I wouldn't want to get lined up for your special brand of justice. I personally think we should start killing welfare cases they cost us more than drunk drivers, hell lets kill off single mothers and there little tax deductions too. Why dont you think before you speak you fuc*ing idiot.

So you offend no ideas as to how address the problem, just criticism. By your response, I'm wondering if you think we should hug them & hold them close, offering lots of love & understanding ?
In Saudi Arabia they kill you on the road side the moment you fail the sobriety test, Saudi Arabia has an average of 6 DWI's a year. NOW, I'm not for killing drunk drivers, but what the Saudi's are doing seems to work. It just goes to show that the rougher the punishment is the less people will chance it.

[Diane Ganzer]

To PM mccready as wella s to Minnesota man...let me clarify- I in no way am putting welfare cases and single moms into the same group as drunk drivers! Drunk drivers kill....and obviously they will keep on doing so. I know of a man who has 7 DWI's and is just now spending 2 measly years in prison for it. Another has 10 DWI's to his credit and did one year in jail for no. 10. ONE year! I like the Antabuse idea....but until the drunks are eliminated, it will always be a problem. Saudi Arabia...isn't that where the Code of Hammurabi began? an eye for an eye sort of thing? OK, PM...if death for drunks is too harsh a penalty, then get a drunk driver out to the scene of an accident and have him/her scrape the body parts off the road, how's that? Look into the eyes of the victim's survivors and say, "I'm sorry, but due to assholes like me, they are now gone forever!" How is that for justice?

[Jim - Minnestoa man]

PMccready wants us to give drunk driver "lolly pops" & "baby kisses".
In 1990 a drunk driver drove in to my lane with his headlights off in a snow storm & slammed head on in to me. The rescue & fire had to cut me out of the car as the engine was up against the front seat, & I was pinned in the car. I was lucky & only suffered a minor knee injury. He suffered no notable injury. I went to court & testified against him,, I spent more time on crutches then he did in jail. to ad insult to injury, 2 years later I saw him working at a gas station. A lady friend & I where in the store, he would not look me in the eye. When I paid for my pop & left, she was still in the store. She heard him tell another clerk " That's the F'ing prick that put me in jail for 15 days! ". She told me, & I went back in to confront him & he ran in to an office & locked the door.

PMccready was that SLEEZY COWARD you ?

[Diane Ganzer]

I rest my case.
Seriously, isn't that the way of it? The drunk driver always, always, always gets off...he/she hits/kills/maims, and as you said, Jim, the sentence they get is too light. I no longer have anything to do with my now "exfriend" just because of his attitude towards drinking. He hung around with other drunks as well. Come on, 9 am and you can hear the tinkle of ice in their glasses and the slurring of their words. Where is the responsibility??? As I said before, maybe they ought to be the ones scraping body parts off the highways. Stone cold sober, of course. Gotta remember what they are doing!

[Laurie]

If anyone has any doubt of what should be done with drunk drivers...try putting yourself in the shoes of a mother who was helpless to save her two infants when a drunk driver went through a red light and t-boned the car. Is it justice when this six offense drunk driver only receives a ten year sentence for this, but is eligible for parole in five? Was justice served when in those six offenses, this driver spent a total of 78 days in jail for all six? If the penalties were stiffer as they should be, this drunk wouldn't have been on that street using his vehicle as a weapon. He destroyed this family. Should it take 12 offenses, or even 2-3, to finally wake up and start protecting innocent people?

[Diane Ganzer]

If I were the judge, I'd make sure the picture of not only those two innocent babies, but also the anguished mother were pinned where this loser can see it everyday while in jail. No, I'll go one better. tattoo those pictures on his body where he can look at them for the rest of his natural born days, much like the Nazi's did to the Jews who were in concentration camps. That alone will wake up these drunks.
I have no sympathy for drunk drivers, none. Taking away licenses doesn't work, they drive anyway and usually are NOT caught unless they have a driving offense separate from drunk driving. It is only a matter of time. Oh and by the way, when you tattoo these losers, use a dirty needle. If this offends anyone, maybe it'll wake YOU up as well to take a serious look at our penalty system regarding drunk drivers. It is not funny.

[Jim - Minnestoa man]

Sadly, people don’t care until it effects them personally. DWI/DUI laws will never get tougher, Politicians drink a lot & many drive drunk. Want proof ? Ted Kennedy !
He got drunk & drove his car off a bridge & KILLED his PREGNANT secretary ( that he got pregnant )! Did he go to jail ? NO, HE GOT ELECTED AGAIN ! Hell, he got nominated for President & almost got the Democratic endorsement ! If people truly cared about Drinking & Driving, Ted Kennedy’s political career would have ended after he killed someone driving drunk. How many times have we read or saw on TV, stories about politicians, judges & cops crashing when drunk. That is the people that make & enforce our laws !
See the problem here ?