(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) BY SHANLEY REYNOLDS ANCHOR JAMAL ANDRESS How many times have you heard the phrase ‘don’t drink and drive?’ Well, a rural county in southwest Ireland passed a provision that is being called a ‘get out of jail free card.’ ABC explains what the changes specifically allow. “The council voted 5-3 – with 12 absent and seven abstaining – to issue special permits to individuals who live in rural areas and wish to drive home on remote countryside roads after consuming two to three alcoholic beverages.” The councillor who proposed the provision told The Journal in Ireland that he thinks the looser laws will help the elderly be less depressed. “A lot of these people are living in isolated rural areas where there’s no public transport of any kind, and they end up at home looking at the four walls, night in and night out, because they don’t want to take the risk of losing their licence.” Another the reason the provision was passed, according to the councillor, drunk drivers  in rural areas in Ireland have “never killed anyone.” But an anchor for WCCB doesn’t believe that’s possible. “I have never been to Ireland; I am not as aware of their culture there, but to say no one has gotten hurt or killed drunk driving in a rural area is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.” And the anchors for WTTG point out, that even if others haven’t been hurt, what about the driver? “What about hurting themselves? They haven't killed others but highly confident some have gone off the road to their own demise.” The Christian Science Monitor says everyone is freaking out over nothing. “One fact that has barely been reported in the scramble to play-up rural Irish alcoholic clichés: It's not going to happen. As a county council motion, the proposal has no legal status.” The provision hasn’t been very accepted in the national spotlight, with The Chief Executive of the Road Safety Authority in Ireland calling it “unthinkable” and “off-the-wall.” The current drunk-driving law only allows the driver’s blood alcohol level to be the equivalent of drinking less than one pint of beer before hitting the road.