Judge gives drunk drivers a choice, jail, or attend a funeral.

[powderman]

Judge gives North Dakota drunk drivers choice between jail or attending funeral  Published July 27, 2012
Associated Press    FARGO, N.D. –  Three drunken driving offenders were given a choice -- spend time in the Cass County jail, or attend the funeral of a West Fargo family that was killed by a drunken driver.
All three went to the funeral, and one offender wrote a letter to the Fargo municipal judge about it.
Allan Bakkerud says the funeral made him realize how a drunken driver could "change so many lives in a split second."
Bakkerud and the two other offenders went to the July 12 funeral for Aaron and Allison Deutscher and their 18-month-old daughter Brielle.
The Deutschers were killed when their vehicle was hit head-on by another vehicle that was driving the wrong way on Interstate 94. The Forum reports the drunken driver, Wyatt Klein of Jamestown, was also killed.   
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[kennyd]

I don't know exactly how to take this.  Never having been jail, I don't know from first hand experience, but don't think I would like it.  A few hours compared to days locked up.
How does the family feel about strangers attending the funeral?    how did they dress and behave, did they sign the book?.   A funeral is part of the personal healing for the family and friends.  I respect the ceremony some feel they need, even when I think it is bazaar. 
Maybe having to attend the autopsies or clean up the scene would have had more impact.

[DANNY-L]

Sometimes seeing is believing more so than spending time in lockup or dishing out big bucks in fine's.

[powderman]

Sometimes seeing is believing more so than spending time in lockup or dishing out big bucks in fine's.

 
Good post Sir. It might be a wakeup call to somebody. POWDERMAN.