R.I. police say man had 0.491 blood alcohol level

Yahoo News ^ | July 22, 2008

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

A good defense lawyer will dumb it down to borderline. /sarc

[mkjessup]

I didn’t think Ted Kennedy was driving now, after that brain tumor was discovered?

They should have checked the alcohol level in the car, it’s probably 80 proof Chivas Regal, LOL

[BenLurkin]

Or argue that this level is so "impossibly high" it must be an error in the test -- and move to have it thrown out entirely.

[El Conservador]

This guy was embalmed...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Good effort!!

[hole_n_one]

Something to shoot for.

[REDWOOD99]

He was too drunk to know he was dead.

[mylife]

Was it this guy?

[doc1019]

Amateur! ;-)

[FreeInWV]

I had a friend with a really high tolerance who passed a field sobriety test and then blew a .458.

[kbennkc]

Or argue that this level is so "impossibly high" it must be an error in the test -- and move to have it thrown out entirely.

If this subject was actually operating the motor vehicle , I would say your proposition is the most likely . If it was a physical control type violation then maybe just a new world record .

[lesser_satan]

There have been higher BAC’s recorded in other states. People who sit around and drink two quarts of 90-proof a day tend to have a high tolerance. I don’t know how they do it. An 18-pack of light beer is about all I can do without passing out. Hard liquor/mixed drinks make me wish I were dead the next day so I no longer drink them, other than a shot of good tequila or a bloody mary every now and then.

[doc1019]

Was this before or after he was buried? WOW! .458 is greater than the amount of alcohol used to preserve most biological specimens. ;-)

[P8triot1]

diabetes and ketoacidosis probably elevated the levels.
ketones register and smell like alcohol.

[dighton]

I had a friend with a really high tolerance who passed a field sobriety test and then blew a .458.

Nervous Tourist: “Are you sure the driver is a strictly sober man? He does not look like an abstainer.”

Landlord: “Weel, there’s no an abstainer aboot the place, mam, but he’s the next best thing tae it; ye canna fill that one full.”

— Punch caption, 1913.

[BunnySlippers]

You’d make a fine attorney.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Rep. Patrick “Patches” Kennedy?

[Natchez Hawk]

.491!

When peeple be running down our country, I just say look at the fine job our lads are doing in the Ocean State.

[A Strict Constructionist]

We’ve seen them with 1.00 and still ticking. Not walking but alive. We routinely see over 0.50 g% in walk-ins to the ER. These results are by gas chromatography not breath with using an Intoxilyzer or some other brand.

We have very healthy livers down here.

[rfp1234]

Patrick Kennedy?