What a joke.

A new tougher state law now means people who steal gasoline from filling stations ("drive-offs") will have their licenses suspended for 30 days, according to this story at KARE-11's website.

But if you dare drive one mile per hour over 100 miles per hour, they'll take your license away for 6 months -- even if there are no other risk factors other than simply breaking the speed limit.

So, I can take my Ford F-250 with dual tanks and drive off with over $100 worth of gasoline and I might lose my license for 1 month. But if I find an empty, straight stretch of safe highway and push my BMW up over 100mph and get caught, I'm walking for 6 months.

No wonder people have so little respect for the law. When the punishment has no resemblance to the seriousness of the crime, how can anyone take the laws and the lawmakers seriously?

Clearly, we have a legislature full of idiots.

See also House Bill 140, section 106, lines 22 through 26.