Wow... this is too far Options

[impala454]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...on/5833544.html

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.

Classmates wept. Some became hysterical.

A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax — a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving.

I'm all for hauling the twisted car up to the school to show students just how bad it can be, etc, etc, but wow, this is WAY over the top...

[impala454]

it works overseas because they've done it that way for like... hundreds of years. somehow I doubt it would work overnight here.

[Spectatrix]

it works overseas because they've done it that way for like... hundreds of years. somehow I doubt it would work overnight here.

Few policy changes are effective if implemented overnight. I think, though, that a gradual reduction of the drinking age could work quite well. 18 for starters, then work down from there.