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Driver so drunk breathalyser crashes
Ananova ^ | 5-26-03

Posted on 05/26/2003 7:29:17 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan

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4 beers? The Dutch must have no tolerance.......
1 posted on 05/26/2003 7:29:17 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
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Police, who had flagged the motorist down for erratic driving, say he claimed to have only drunk "four beers".

Four Okocim would do that.

2 posted on 05/26/2003 7:31:15 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (The "Anti-War Leaders" Have Blood On Their Hands, look and you'll find, they are NOT anti-war)
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To: Dan from Michigan
I would like to know what brand that guy drinks. It sure ain't Coors, my friend.
3 posted on 05/26/2003 7:32:00 PM PDT by Imal (There's a Marxist born every minute)
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Some time later a police doctor gave the man, who has not been named, a blood test which showed the driver had seven times too much alcohol in his blood.

FYI, the BAC limit in the Netherlands is .05, bunch of pansies they are. It was only 35% alcohol in the blood. This guy doesn't compare to my neighbor in college, who obtained a police report from an incident where he had a .47 BAC. THe report was framed and hanging above his bar.

4 posted on 05/26/2003 7:39:47 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: Dan from Michigan
I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
5 posted on 05/26/2003 7:40:59 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Imal
Might have been Samichlaus, an Austrian beer made by the Eggenberg brewery. It's close to 15% alcohol, more of a barley wine really.
6 posted on 05/26/2003 7:43:24 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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7 posted on 05/26/2003 7:44:08 PM PDT by areafiftyone (The U.N. needs a good Flush!)
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To: Imal
Also, however many beers someone tells the cops they had, you can safely multiply that number by three or four to get a more accurate number.
8 posted on 05/26/2003 7:46:02 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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One night I was reading pop smears in the lab and the night tech came up all breathless and said to me, Dr Ballo - LOOK AT THIS. It was a readout from a lab analyzer showing a blood alcohol of .502 gm/dl. Not really believing it I had her dilute the sample 1:1 and repeat the test and it came up ... ... .252. I went over to the ER and there he was, not dead and not even unconscious. We watched him as this BAC slowly declined. That is my personal maximum - the original 1 proof man.
9 posted on 05/26/2003 7:47:09 PM PDT by drjoe
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To: Dan from Michigan
How big were the bottles? :-))
10 posted on 05/26/2003 7:48:47 PM PDT by Turk2 (Dulce bellum inexpertis)
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To: drjoe
What's a 'pop smear'?
11 posted on 05/26/2003 7:49:44 PM PDT by plusone
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12 posted on 05/26/2003 7:53:27 PM PDT by Turk2 (Dulce bellum inexpertis)
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The record in our county is .605. The guy was still ambulatory. One of my college classmates defended him the best he could at his DUI trial.
13 posted on 05/26/2003 7:53:47 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Dan from Michigan; mhking
Hold muh beer
14 posted on 05/26/2003 7:53:55 PM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: Ken H
LOL!

Missher beer I have only had four osifers!
15 posted on 05/26/2003 8:03:51 PM PDT by JakeWyld
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I wonder what the BAC is in one being treated for antifreeze? I give dogs ETOH until they are almost comatose and keep them that way for 48 hours. Is there a standard BAC for ethylene glycol toxicity?
16 posted on 05/26/2003 8:14:36 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: plusone
A "Pop smear" is when one has been down on it. A "pap smear" is a sample of cells from the cervical region of a woman that is being examined for neoplastic or preneoplastic cellular characteristics. The "pop smear" can be done by any man wishing to satisfy the female. The "pap smear" is usually accomplished by a pathologist or cytologist.
17 posted on 05/26/2003 8:19:27 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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FWIW, according to the web pages I've seen, the goal for ethylene glycol treatment in humans is to maintain EtOH at 100-150 mg/dL, which translates into a BAC of 0.1-0.15...
18 posted on 05/26/2003 9:04:31 PM PDT by general_re (When you step on the brakes, you're putting your life in your foot's hands...)
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To: drjoe
One night I was reading pop smears in the lab

Sperm samples?

<]B^)

19 posted on 05/26/2003 9:56:15 PM PDT by Erasmus
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To: Dan from Michigan
If this person is a diabetic this can happen. They breath out Ketones which in similar to alcohol and will send some analyzers off the scale.
20 posted on 05/26/2003 11:37:36 PM PDT by quietolong
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