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Let?s Hope MADD Doesn?t See This?.

By Lawrence Taylor

Traffic police in Minsk in the Republic of Belarus have apparently adopted a new tactic in the War on Drunk Driving.  According to a news release yesterday from Russia Today, police were ordered by superiors to stop a reported drunk driver on a highway.  Their solution:  they randomly stopped four cars and forced the drivers to line up in a row across the highway, forming a human wall.  The occupants of the vehicles — including a 3-year-old child and its mother – were not told the reason. The drunk driver’s car smashed into the human fence, bursting into flames. For a film clip of the TV news story and video of the crash, see the YouTube segment “Police Use Human Shield to Stop Car”...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on March 15, 2008 (boomark / email).