Keller @ Large: Using Nickelback To Scare Drunk Drivers

BOSTON (CBS) - The season of celebration is at hand, but whatever you do, please don't drive drunk. It's the worst possible thing you could do to yourself and to others. And in Kensington, Canada, the police feel so strongly about this, they've resorted to extreme measures.

In a Facebook warning to those "dumb enough to feel they can drink and drive," the Kensington cops promise that if and when they catch you, "on top of a hefty fine, a criminal charge and a year's driving suspension we will also provide you with a bonus gift of playing the office copy of Nickelback in the cruiser on the way to jail."

Oh, the horror!

But it turns out this is far from the first time the authorities have resorted to really bad music as a form of torture.

U.S. troops reportedly used Metallica records and copies of the kiddie tv show Barney & Friends to break down prisoners of war.

At other times, the Eminem album "The Real Slim Shady" and the "Meow Mix" commercial theme song have also been used for this purpose.

And perhaps most famously, when Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega tried to escape justice by holing up in an embassy building in 1989, the troops bombarded him with Van Halen music and copies of the Howard Stern Show until he surrendered.

I think political speeches are an underutilized resource in this area. Just imagine being forced to listen to the entire Democratic and Republican conventions again and again. Or any given John Kerry or Charlie Baker speech on a loop.

Now that's what I call a deterrent.

As the cops in Canada put it: "You don't drink and drive and we won't make you listen to it."