Actions Deserve Consequences... Unless You Have a Sob Story

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Yesterday, I read a story of someone who was let off for drunk driving. In comparison, another story showed a young girl celebrating her birthday who was expelled from school because she was wearing a rainbow jumper and had a rainbow birthday cake. The young girl wasn't at school at the time. She wasn't causing trouble. She was doing nothing wrong. Someone at her school had spotted her celebratory picture on social media. The decision was made by the Catholic school because of some misplaced idea that rainbows represent LGBT (which, according to this particular school, is against their lifestyle and beliefs or whatever). I repeat, that girl did nothing wrong but was punished anyway (believe me, I know how that feels). The drunk-driver, on the other hand, was well over the limit while driving. The reason she was let off was, apparently, because she wouldn't have been able to get her children to school without driving. Forgive me but I think that's ridiculous. She shouldn't have been driving while drunk. If it was going to be that difficult for her to get her children to school without a car, she ought to have thought about that. That drunk-driver's actions received no consequences. OK, her children shouldn't have to suffer because of her actions but that's what happens. Crime and stupidity have a knock-on effect, although I doubt it would be too great a hardship for her children to walk or get a bus or share a lift with friends. Perhaps I'll go and rob a bank, plead that my husband and son couldn't possibly manage without me, and get away with it. What do you think of the situation? Is there are crime you would commit if you knew you'd get away with it?