Drunk Driving Deterrence in Canada - Police to Play Nickelback

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I definitely won't be driving Drunk in P.E.I.!

Canadian police in the town of Kensington have figured out a way to deter revelers during the holiday season from driving drunk: Nickelback.

Yes, seriously. The Canadian band is a punchline once again after Kensington Police Service posted this threat on Facebook:

“When we catch you, and we will catch you, on top of a hefty fine, a criminal charge and a years driving suspension we will also provide you with a bonus gift of playing the offices copy of Nickelback in the cruiser on the way to jail.

“Now, now, no need to thank us, we figure if you are foolish enough to get behind the wheel after drinking then a little Chad Kroeger and the boys is the perfect gift for you.

“So please, lets not ruin a perfectly good unopened copy of Nickelback. You don’t drink and drive and we won’t make you listen to it.”

Also, that’s a cassette tape, which makes this whole thing even funnier than the time Detroit Lions fans petitioned to have the band replaced as their 2011 Thanksgiving game halftime entertainment.

“We are just using a different approach to get an age-old message communicated,” a constable told CNN. “As long as it starts the ‘Don’t drink and drive’ dialogue, we’re happy with that.”

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/11/nickelback-canada-police-drunk-drivers-jail-facebook-post

KENSINGTON, P.E.I. — A police department in western Prince Edward Island is threatening to impose the Nickelback treatment on anyone who drinks and drives.

The Kensington Police Service shared a social media post over the weekend promising drunk drivers will be listening to one of the Canadian band’s tunes while riding in the back seat of a cruiser if they’re arrested.

Const. Robb Hartlen says on Facebook that if you’re foolish enough to get behind the wheel after drinking then a tune performed by lead singer Chad Kroeger and the band “is the perfect gift for you.”

He says if the department doesn’t have to arrest anyone for impaired driving, it will avoid him having to “ruin a perfectly good unopened copy of Nickelback.”

The band has been a huge commercial success, with multiple Juno wins, but is also gleefully maligned by some detractors.

It has been the subject of spiteful petitions, protests and a Chicago mayor was once pressured into clarifying he wasn’t a fan.

Kroeger told The Canadian Press in a 2014 interview that the critics have actually done the band a favour by heightening the public discussion about the group.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/photograph+torture+police+threaten+play+nickelback+drunk/12451777/story.html

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now that is cruel and unusual punishment.