Today's special news breaking headline is about the man in PA who told his doctor that he drank a six pack of beer a day. The next thing he knows, he receives a letter in the mail from the PA DOT suspending his driver's license. It seems, PA has a law on their books where physcians must report any physical or mental defects to the DOT.

Where do I start with this one? If we suspended the licenses of everyone who had a six pack a day, there'd be very few people on the roads(especially in the south). How can they take his license for drinking a six pack a day, when he wasn't even arrested for DUI? And who's to say the man doesn't work his job, go home, drink his beer and then go straight to bed? Even those courses they make you take when you get a DWI(yes, I've taken it), says one beer every hour is "safe" depending on body weight and health. So if he gets off at 5, has a beer every hour before turning in at 12, he would theoretically be legally sober enough to drive. If the man has been drinking the same beer for several years, he builds up a sort of tolerance to it anyway. And let's face it, if its the American watered down, might-as-well-pour-it straight-into-the-toilet-to-save-you-the-trouble-of-constantly-pissing-it-out beer...well, please!

Basically this man went to his doctor, honestly told him his habit to better aid the doctor in his care, with a more than reasonable expectation of doctor/patient confidentiality, only to be rewarded with having is license suspended.

Next time you think "land of the free"...you'd better think again.