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Drunk had twice the lethal alcohol level (0.9 percent)
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 12/21/05 | Reuters

Posted on 12/21/2005 10:46:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge

RIGA (Reuters) - A drunk Latvian had a blood-alcohol content more than 17 times the legal driving limit in the Baltic state when he was run over and killed, police said Tuesday.

The 50-year-old unnamed pedestrian, who also had more than twice the alcohol level considered lethal for most humans, was lying drunk on the road near his home in a remote part of eastern Latvia in the early hours.

Police said the man had probably been drinking home-made alcohol for several days because of the impossibility of reaching his blood-alcohol level of 0.9 percent in just a day.

They said the man was alive when he was run over by a car, creating a probable although unenviable record for alcohol consumption in hard-drinking Latvia.

"The cause of death has been marked down as a road accident, although the alcohol level would most likely have killed him anyway," said state police spokeswoman Kristine Mezaraupe.

Latvia, an ex-Soviet state which is still one of the poorest in the European Union, has a problem with heavy drinking, especially among men who have an average life expectancy of 66 years compared with 77 years for women.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alcohollevel; drunk; latvia; lethal
They said the man was alive when he was run over by a car, creating a probable although unenviable record for alcohol consumption in hard-drinking Latvia.

"The cause of death has been marked down as a road accident, although the alcohol level would most likely have killed him anyway," said state police spokeswoman Kristine Mezaraupe.

1 posted on 12/21/2005 10:46:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

What is the level before blood becomes flammable?


2 posted on 12/21/2005 11:04:22 PM PST by Nateman (Terrorists should have less rights than a cockroach!)
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To: NormsRevenge

They won't need to embalm him!


3 posted on 12/21/2005 11:44:28 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP, ALEX KOZINSKI FOR SCOTUS)
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