Drink, drive, play

If you fancy getting plastered behind the wheel of a moving vehicle then there are worse places to give it a go than Taiwan. Now normally I'd be saying that the last thing you want to do is break the law where they have such an interesting version of the death penalty:

Before taking these last steps, the inmate ties a few thousand-dollar bills to his shackles. Tradition says that this money, and the shackles of the executed prisoner, will bring good luck to his fellow inmates on death row. The shackles are therefore very popular among the rest of the inmates, who believe that the restraints of their former prison mate will help them win an appeal, offering a chance to escape death...

After the meal, a forensic scientist will provide the option of an anesthetic. When the inmate passes out completely, guards position the prisoner on the ground, face down, and shoot him directly in the heart. An exception may be made, however, if the inmate is an organ donor, in which case the guards won't shoot for the heart.

After the shots have been fired, the law enforcement officials present wait a few minutes to make sure the inmate is dead. If the person is still alive, at that point the guards must fire a second shot.

Sometimes, inmates may struggle after being shot; some have even regained consciousness and stared at the guards. If that happens, the prosecutors immediately assign another group of guards to continue the execution. This is because execution ground tradition says that the ghost of an executed prisoner will follow the man who shot him if he has looked the man in the eye before dying.

Three or more armed guards usually carry out an execution. The warden will give the guards a couple hundred NT dollars in red envelops as lucky money. Traditionally, whoever receives the money must spend it all before he walks home that day, or he will suffer bad luck...

Nothing so complicated for DUI though. Those convicted face only a lengthy game of mah jong with the elderly:

...playing the popular Chinese tile game taught offenders to love older people. "Offenders first dismissed the duty as wasting time but they soon discovered they were respected and drew satisfaction from helping."

So everyone's happy - the drunks don't have to go to jail, the elderly have less time to complain about their relatives not coming to see them and more importantly no one gets shot.

Following a prisoner's final steps - Taipei Times

Drink-drivers face fine - or a game of mah jong - Guardian Unlimited