Let’s hear it that our Senators Reid, Schumer, Lautenberg and Udall asked that the apps available to help drunken drivers avoid sobriety checkpoints, be removed from online stores. Immediately, after the letter went out, Blackberry agreed to pull the apps but still no feedback from Apple and Google. See NY Times April 17, 2011 article, Helping Drunken Drivers Avoid Tickets, but Not Wrecks

I can’t imagine having the ability for the straight-thinking required to use an app like “Buzzed” or “PhantomAlert” when I could barely keep the vehicle on the road in my drunken, early teenage years out in the Midwest. After twenty odd years of sobriety, the grateful thought still goes through my head, “Thank God I didn’t kill someone.”

What on earth are the creators of these apps thinking? Maybe we just need to save them a seat.