Transit police in Colombia could soon be handing out stiff fines to any pedestrians caught "walking under the influence" or in a clear-cut state of zig-zag drunkeness, local news reports said Friday.
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El Tiempo, Colombia's leading daily, said penalties, including fines of up to $250 for "drunk walking," were included in an overhaul of the country's transit laws that President Ernesto Samper recently proposed to Colombia's Congress.The legislation is aimed at cutting down on the high number of pedestrians killed on Colombia's roadways every year, with many of the cases blamed on drunken pedestrians as well as drunk drivers.