August 7, 2026
“He’s practically a ‘mobile shikigami’ now. Nobody knows where he is in his car.” Mark, the younger brother who was also a drug driver, could only sigh in anger. He couldn’t force his brother to go to the hospital for rehabilitation or be arrested. What angered him even more was the repeated drug driving incidents and the hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation he’d incurred in car accidents. Recounting the trouble his brother had caused and looking at the accumulated traffic tickets, Mark had already pessimistically imagined the worst-case scenario, saying helplessly, “What if one day we get a call saying, ‘My brother killed someone,’ what are we supposed to do?”
“Because he makes drugs to sell, he drives while smoking,” Mark sighed. At home, he not only had to protect himself, but he also had to keep his car keys safe. He vividly remembers one time his brother broke into his room and found out where the car keys were. Mark, unsuspecting, went to sleep. When he woke up to drive, he discovered the car had been moved. “Looking at the dashboard, it had been driven 70 or 80 kilometers in just one night,” he said.
Where did his brother take it? Mark said helplessly that he had overheard his brother exchanging messages with friends, the content of which was nothing more than where to pick up goods for delivery. As for the drugs? Mark said that whatever drugs became mainstream, his brother could get his hands on them, including the newly emerging zombie-themed drugs.
Another incident involved his brother stealing the family car and crashing into the vehicle in front of him. All the airbags deployed. Fortunately, the other driver was unharmed, but the repairs alone cost over 500,000 NTD.
Speaking of driving under the influence of drugs, Mark was clearly angry but helpless. His license hadn’t been suspended, and he could still rent shared cars; his traffic tickets were already piling up. “How can you prevent this? Even with a bankrupt credit history, you can still borrow money from banks, and you can still borrow a car. He might even be driving under the influence right now, as he’s interviewing me.”
As for rehabilitation? Mark bluntly stated it’s completely useless. “They’ll be locked up for a year or two, come out and be normal for a year, then start acting up again after a few months.” Even drug urine tests have loopholes. “Etomidate, for example, is tested on Friday, but if you use it on Monday, it’s excreted by Wednesday or Thursday.”
Mark said there needs to be at least a management system so that people involved in drug use can’t rent cars. While you can’t revoke their licenses for life, at least while they’re still addicted or acting abnormally, the system should record and confiscate their licenses; otherwise, they can rent cars and drive around freely.