Drunk driving: Dead body work in morgue as punishment

Drunk driver punishment cleaning roads or cutting trees has little effect on behaviour, so dead body work in morgues may be the community service work needed.

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Drunk driving: Work with dead bodies in morgue as punishment 

7/04/2016

As the recent Mercedes case seems to indicate, some people don't have to be tested for drink-driving if they do not want to be tested. 

But if they are tested and the test is positive, community service is one possible light punishment they might receive, especially on a first offense. 

If the offender is allowed to select their own community service punishment, it is perhaps not really punishment (e.g. sweeping the road, gardening in the park, teaching small kids or picking up trash).

However, working with dead bodies, some of which might be dead because of drunk drivers, would be punishment for almost everyone.

WORKING IN A MORGUE

Dead bodies are usually stored in the local morgue, located in the back of a hospital, before they moved to an undertaker for funeral preparations. 

So morgue work might be the perfect punishment for people caught drunk driving, fulfilling much the same function as those shocking cigarette labels that show all the diseases one can get from smoking.

SURGE IN NEW YEARS DRUNK DRIVING

Official records showed the number of drunk drivers arrested during New Year celebrations continue to increase, and most of them were teenagers, both new and repeat offenders.

Thailand had been ranked second in the world for the highest road deaths and number one in Asia.

The Songkran holiday saw 2.3 people die per hour and 160 others injured.

State agencies are working together to reduce the number of casualties.

ORDINARY COMMUNITY SERVICE NOT EFFECTIVE

The probation department has found that ordering convicted drunk drivers to perform their required community service by cleaning roads, cutting trees or helping hospital personnel look after patients being treated for road accidents failed to make some of them realise and change their dangerous behaviour.  

As a result, they want to take the mandatory community work to the next level by having offenders help hospital staff in the morgue so that they can better understand the effects of drink driving.

The proposal was submitted to the cabinet last week and is pending consideration.

Once approved by the cabinet, the courts can then decide whether a convicted drink-driving offender should be sent to do community service at a hospital morgue.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/925049/drunk-drivers-are-morgue-bound-literally

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