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Bad driving punishment - texan style

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  1. From the BBC:

    Driver humiliated by Texas judge

    A driver involved in a fatal accident in the US has been given a string of
    humiliating punishments by a judge.

    Texas District Judge Keith Dean jailed Frank Dorsett for a year, and ordered
    that he must then drive a low-powered car and carry a photo of the wreck he
    helped to cause outside Dallas in June 2003.

    He must also take daily medication that will make him sick if he drinks
    alcohol, and carry a bumper sticker asking other motorists to call the
    probation department if he drives recklessly.

    Dorsett was racing another driver along a highway when the other man hit and
    killed a 16-year-old girl in a third car.

    Judge Dean was not satisfied with a jury's decision that Dorsett should face
    only probation.

    The parents of Rachel Blasingame, the victim, praised the unusual sentence.

    "We feel the terms of his probation will make up for anything the jury had
    taken away from us," said her father, Guy Blasingame.

    Jason T Scott, the other driver involved in the chase, is awaiting trial.

  2. David Martin said:

    Driver humiliated by Texas judge

    A new urc standard punishment for low-grade cluelessness: the Texas
    Treatment :-)

    Guy
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