Only .12 and he was that out of control? I think they lowered the number in public release due to who he was....
.12 is NOT that drunk and I know, I got an underage ticket at .17 and the cops told me they couldn't even tell i had been drinking...
Alcohol affects each one of us differently and at different rates and in different amounts. There are no hard and fast rules with which to detrmine how any one person might be impaired at .12, .08 or .02.
To everyone else: the mainstream meaning behind "alcoholism is a disease" mantra is *not* that it literally is a disease but that its clinical diagnosis and treatment is simialr to the process of diseases. But no one, except the truly wacko, believes alcoholics are to be socially and legally treated the same as those with a 'real' disease...i.e. a pathology with a 'no choice' basis
That's exactly what I was thinking. .12 is nothing. Either the cops lowered it or he can't hold his booze.
You were, or are, a conditioned drinker. Or those particular cops were incredibly incompetent.