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After questioning Lindsay’s latest recovery attempt, mocking Nicole Richie’s DUI, and “doodling” white dots of cocaine and semen across countless celebrity faces, Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. aka “Perez Hilton” has found his place in Hollywood. This year, the “Gossip Gangstar” awarded his namesake, Paris Hilton, the “Big Outlaw” award at VH1’s “Big in ’06” show, starred in his own GQ magazine spread...
...which force drivers to pass a breath test to start their car and then to periodically re-test while the vehicle is in operation, are already used in some parts of the United States. To date, these have been forced only upon those convicted of driving under the influence (DUI), but legislators in New York are now considering a law that would require all new cars to come with a lock pre-installed...
...test case cited as justification for MADD’s policy is New Mexico, which made the locks mandatory after a driver’s first DUI. The New York Times implies that the devices are responsible for N.M.’s 11.3 percent drop in alcohol-related fatalities last year, despite noting that “New Mexico was not the only state to record a decline in alcohol-related motoring deaths” and that other states “showed even bigger drops.” Furthermore, the rule did not take effect until June...
...other hand, the California Department of Motor Vehicle’s “An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Ignition Interlock in California” concluded that the devices “are not effective in reducing DUI convictions or incidents [after being imposed] for first-time DUI offenders.” (The study did show, however, that the risk of crashing was higher for offenders with a lock installed—perhaps because they were being asked to conduct breath tests while driving.) If the locks have no effect when imposed after a first DUI conviction?...
...free utopia, who cares if our civil rights are run over. Many states already penalize drivers arrested for—not convicted of—drunk driving by revoking their license, and Los Angeles makes a tidy profit by seizing their cars as well. Washington, meanwhile, tells juries in DUI cases to “assume the truth of the prosecution’s...evidence” and make their decision “in a light most favorable to the prosecution,” according to The Seattle Times. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Do drunk driving...