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Bulgarian's blood-alcohol level astounds doctors (0.914!)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | January 4, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 01/04/2005 8:10:02 PM PST by Loyalist

SOFIA, BULGARIA - Bulgarian doctors tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was 0.914 – nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening.

The 67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec. 20 after a car knocked him off his feet in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, police and doctors said Tuesday.

A breath test indicated blood-alcohol levels so high that police thought their equipment was broken, because the man remained conscious and talked with them.

The head of Plovdiv police, Col. Angel Rangelov, said five separate lab tests taken the same day confirmed the man's blood-alcohol level of 0.914.

A blood-alcohol level of 0.55 is considered potentially fatal.

In comparison, the Bulgarian man's level was more than 11 times higher than the legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Canada, which is 0.08.

The man, who has not been identified, was reported to be in stable condition after being treated for head injuries.

Written by CBC News Online staff


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alcohol; bulgaria; drunk
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To: Lawgvr1955

I am not sure, but they have a DVD of the Best of Will Farrell and I don't know if that skit is on it.

As soon as I saw your tagline, I knew what it was.


41 posted on 01/04/2005 9:12:59 PM PST by atruelady
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To: Old Professer

I didn't. The senior officer did. I was an observer. As I said, my call would have been different, and it would have been different on two counts. The guy didn't look or act drunk, and he didn't look like a chronic drinker. So much for my abilities on the second call. A serial killer doesn't look like my image of a serial killer either. I learned to set that stuff aside.


42 posted on 01/04/2005 9:22:54 PM PST by kylaka
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To: Andrew LB

I have no doubt about that. In college, kids were often hospitalized with BAC of 2.5 and higher.


43 posted on 01/04/2005 9:24:46 PM PST by kylaka
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To: small voice in the wilderness
Hold muh keg alert!

I would wager that it's impossible to get to that BA level drinking merely beer.

44 posted on 01/04/2005 9:25:57 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: kylaka

Which goes to probable cause; my guess is that if you stopped 100 people at 1:00A.M. on any given night you could pinch 10.


45 posted on 01/04/2005 9:26:56 PM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: Nov3
I disagree with that conclusion. I was stopped for DUI in Hawaii about 25 year ago, and was given a field sobriety test which I assume I passed, because I had 1 beer about 1 hour before the stop. (Honest, I have no reason to lie to you). I went on my merry way, 5 minutes later.

After the fact, I concluded that I'd stopped and had dinner at a joint that had a high incidence of tourist DUI tag and and releases, that the local cops fed on. Perfectly legit. I hope they got close to their quota every day.

46 posted on 01/04/2005 9:48:24 PM PST by kylaka
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To: Loyalist

If Dracula is in Bulgaria, he could get sloshed drinking a couple pints of this guy's blood. It's almost as alcoholic as a light beer.


47 posted on 01/04/2005 11:38:57 PM PST by Defiant (The immigration solution is to follow and enforce the law.)
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To: Loyalist

he should try drunk-FReepering


48 posted on 01/04/2005 11:41:35 PM PST by Porterville (Never compromise what is right. Take your time to insult a liberal or have one unemployed.)
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To: kylaka
I was stopped for DUI in Hawaii about 25 year ago, and was given a field sobriety test which I assume I passed, because I had 1 beer about 1 hour before the stop. (Honest, I have no reason to lie to you). I went on my merry way, 5 minutes later.

I have excops in my family and have several friends who are cops. If you get pulled over and asked to do a sobriety test, it is a mere formality. You are going to be asked to blow 99 times out of a hundred.

After the fact, I concluded that I'd stopped and had dinner at a joint that had a high incidence of tourist DUI tag and and releases, that the local cops fed on. Perfectly legit. I hope they got close to their quota every day.

Were you driving erratically? If not you really need to reread or read the Constitution. You don't have a basic understanding of it or the Bill of Rights.

49 posted on 01/05/2005 11:05:18 AM PST by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: Old Professer

The other 90 just have to suck it up.


50 posted on 01/05/2005 11:06:38 AM PST by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: Loyalist

51 posted on 01/05/2005 11:07:37 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo ("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
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To: kylaka

I just read another of your posts. Are you an officer? If so throw that BS you said out the window. You were extended PC. The only way a cop gets DUI'd is if he has a wreck.


52 posted on 01/05/2005 11:09:42 AM PST by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: Constitution Day

Beer it is not just for breakfast anymore.


53 posted on 01/05/2005 11:10:02 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: Loyalist

Gives a new meaning to the adjective "pickled."


54 posted on 01/05/2005 11:11:27 AM PST by Wolfstar (Where are you, Miss Beazley?)
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To: Old Professer

My experience in Europe was they pretty much made everyone blow into a field tester when there was an accident.

I had a guy cross into my lane on a curve, and head on me. The Bobbies had me blow into a filed tester along with the dude that was at fault. They did this after numerous witness statements of what happened.

Just the way they do things


55 posted on 01/05/2005 11:16:11 AM PST by 5Madman2 (DemocRATS are Vermin)
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To: Danae
Oh, I see, with that you HAVE to stay drunk ALL the time. Probably kill him to stop now..

Yep. One one of these autopsy/forensic shows recently, the ME discovered that a man who collapsed and died in a parking lot was killed by quitting drinking the week before. His system was so used to burning alcohol for fuel that the switch to sobriety killed him.

56 posted on 01/05/2005 11:16:35 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: Nov3

My dad was a carpenter, I grew up on jobsites. Every single painter I knew was an alcoholic. Most neded a tallboy to get them to the beer joint after work. If they were sober they could not work, shacks.


57 posted on 01/05/2005 11:19:04 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: Loyalist
five separate lab tests taken the same day confirmed the man's blood-alcohol level of 0.914.

SENSEI!


58 posted on 01/05/2005 11:19:16 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Loyalist

That can't be right. I've seen a hardened alcoholic live through a .63, but .914? I'd double and triple-check their equipment before believing that.


59 posted on 01/05/2005 11:21:07 AM PST by Zeroisanumber
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To: 1rudeboy

If beer did do this his kidneys are going to give out before his liver.


60 posted on 01/05/2005 11:23:13 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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