Bulgarian's blood-alcohol level astounds doctors (0.914!)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | January 4, 2005 | Staff

[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

[TXBSAFH]

Yes I to bow before the masteras well as his porclean throne sometime durint this.

[TXBSAFH]

btt

[Oberon]

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.

And if there's a high incidence of tax evaders in your neighborhood, are you going to be the first one in line for an audit?

[general_re]

I'm impressed that he got that much blood in his boozestream.

[TXBSAFH]

His breathe must have had a low flash point at this stage.

[general_re]

Guess he wasn't a smoker - he'd have lit one up and suddenly found out what it was like to be a human wick...

[RosieCotton]

Yikes!

Don't try this at home, kids...

[Allan]

Bump

[TXBSAFH]

I have met soem power drunks in my day , but dang.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I grew up on jobsites. Every single painter I knew was an alcoholic."

House painters are the ones that failed out of art school...the ones that graduated did X or nose candy instead of booze...

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[TXBSAFH]

My dad once had to get a job done by Monday morning, he had to buy 2 case of beer for the paint crew to get them to work all weekend.

[kylaka]

"are you going to be the first one in line for an audit?"

Sure, why not? In my case the IRS is likely to say "thsnks, but no thanks".

[nkycincinnatikid]

In N KY amend that to "the only way a cop gets DUI'd is if he has a wreck" (Hits the Commonwealth Attorney's BMW)

[AnnaZ]

It's in the details.

[Feiny]

I found his photo:

[Rakkasan1]

http://alcalc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/34/4/622

Alcohol is increasingly being recognized as a major cause of the greater burden of disease and premature death in eastern Europe than in the west.

Clearly Bush's fault.

[HangFire]

[katdawg]

Party on!

[katdawg]

Animal House