Posted on 12/30/2009 5:45:44 AM PST by maddog55
A Sturgis woman had a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, possibly a state record, when she was found earlier this month behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle parked on Interstate 90, according to Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal.
A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered Marguerite Engle, 45, on Dec. 1 passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck reported stolen in Rapid City.
Her blood-alcohol level was almost nine times South Dakota’s legal limit of .08 percent.
Checks with local and state labs where blood-alcohol levels are tested suggest Engle’s reading may be the highest ever recorded in South Dakota, Sondreal said.
Sondreal said a state chemist recalled a sample that tested .53, but nothing higher, in his more than 30 years on the job.
Dr. Robert Looyenga, who recently retired from the Rapid City Police Department’s forensic laboratory, told Sondreal that the highest blood-alcohol sample he tested measured .56 percent.
Sondreal’s research indicates that a blood-alcohol level of .40 is considered a lethal dose for about 50 percent of the population.
“Engle’s was almost double that,” Sondreal said.
After she was found, Engle was hospitalized and freed on bond.
She failed to appear in court on Dec. 15, but Sturgis police located her Monday evening in another stolen car sitting in a ditch along S.D. Highway 34 near Fort Meade.
Engle was arrested for second offense driving under the influence and taken to jail.
Engle made her initial appearance in Meade County magistrate court Tuesday. She is being held without bond.
Sondreal said Engle has been living in a hotel after recently moving here from Minnesota.
Engle is most likely facing charges in Pennington County since both vehicles were stolen in Rapid City, Sondreal said.
damnit...thought it said “topless”.
CC
Long story short, the cop and this guy rolled around for a bit until help arrived. At the hospital the doctors told the cop that the guy had a BAC of about .5, and the only thing that was keeping him alive was the amount of cocaine he had in his system.
I would assume something similar was occuring in this woman's system.
She is number 1, she is number 1......
WoWza! And I thought .4 was lethal? A female Frank the Tank?
What are we supposed to do with people like this?
You could win a lot of bar bets with someone like that !
“Hey Lady! I bet you can drink me under the table!”
I blew a .12 on my buddy’s personal “AlcoScan” breathalyzer after 12 beers, but I’m also 6’2” 275 lbs. I can’t fathom how much alcohol this woman must’ve consumed to make it to this inhuman feat.
Naw. She’s just a real pro at drinking.
I’ve seen people walking and talking, just barely slurring their words and had BAC’s of over 300....
Dude!
Lets buy that woman a drink!
Sending her to prison won’t help. Most people who have been in the joint say they got better drugs and more booze inside than they did on the outside.
WOW ...I feel like such an Amateur, as the best I could ever do was .38%
A Friend of mine, blew a .45 . He got off the DUI, as 3 Drs and 1 Hospital lab tech told the judge.. That there was no possible way any human could drive with that number, and that the officer ticketed a DEAD MAN.
Granted that was in 1979, when the were only starting to get serious on DUI.
What a hottie!
Karen Allen was a cutie back in the day.
and then some....
I wonder if they checked the anti-freeze in the truck?
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