Of all the idiotic sentences handed down, none are more idiotic than those handed down in drunk driving cases.
A Mississauga father of two young children today was given an 18-month jail sentence for the drunk driving death of a taxi driver.
... In sentencing him, Justice Michael Tulloch told Harrison that he seemed to be "a decent man" with many positives but he was lucky he didn't receive a prison sentence.
... But he drank and crashed his Mercedes head-on into a taxi with four young men, who chose to be driven home instead of risking driving because they had been drinking.
"Impaired driving is an epidemic in our society and needs to be denounced," Tulloch told a Brampton court. "The gravity of the offence and the degree of responsibility requires incarceration..."
... The convicted man was already on bail - and under a court order to not consume alcohol - when he killed Rayment on July 2, 2005 while impaired, court previously heard.
Saying that drunk driving "needs to be denounced" and then doing nothing of particular note to "denounce" it is a particularly nice touch.
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