Did you drive with flashing lights? The punishment: watching a police car's headlights

Eliezer the Lion
August 9, 2014   
In the Shenzhen province of China, they decided to fight blindfolded traffic offenders in an original way: forcing the offending driver to stare for 5 minutes at the police car's rear view mirror • Citizens: The punishment is not enough, it should be extended to 30 minutes
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Who hasn't encountered annoying drivers who blindly shine their high beams on the road? In the Shenzhen province of China, they decided to fight drivers and came up with an original punishment for them: staring at the rear of a police car for a long time.

Sky News reports that police officers have come to the conclusion that deterrence against traffic offenders is not sufficient and therefore decided to choose a new measure that might work.

After the unruly driver is caught, he is required to sit on a low plastic stool and stare straight into the back of the police car for five minutes. The headlights, by the way, are on high beam.

""After staring at the high beams for many minutes, the offending driver will understand why it is important not to dazzle other drivers while driving," explained the initiators of the idea.

The move was met with criticism and even ridicule across the country, but some welcomed the new punishment, and even demanded an extension of the punishment: "Dazzling headlights are a terrible thing, the punishment should be extended to 30 minutes of viewing, divided into three ten-minute periods with a sixty-second break between each segment," wrote one citizen.


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