I'm guessing the field sobriety test was just a bit of a formality.

he's never been to a Fark party.

/noob

MaxxLarge: A BAC of .30? Pfffft...cops in Milwaukee get a half-dozen people blowing more than that on any average Tuesday.

Indeed.

I was a prosecutor years ago, and we had a guy test .54. How the hell does someone survive that?

whatever...some people just can't hold their liquor.

According to my pocket breathalyzer (not a euphemism from my wang) my girlfriend was at 0.17 last night and was all stumbling and slurring. .30 must be a helluva time.

pgh9fan: I'm guessing the field sobriety test was just a bit of a formality.

Not exactly. There are very common symptoms between drunkenness and diabetic shock. Its very important to document things like this

Someone with a blood-alcohol level of .30 is "in a stupor" and could suddenly pass out, according to Facts on Tap, a national alcohol-education program.


And they would have NO reason to exaggerate or anything. :-|

Haven't there been Fark articles where people hit .45 or something and were still walking and talking?

pudding7: And she's super cute (new window)

nopokerface: I was a prosecutor years ago, and we had a guy test .54. How the hell does someone survive that?

My mother made it into that range more than once (and in the hospital...). You can develop an exceptional tolerance to the stuff.

nopokerface: MaxxLarge: A BAC of .30? Pfffft...cops in Milwaukee get a half-dozen people blowing more than that on any average Tuesday.

Indeed.

I was a prosecutor years ago, and we had a guy test .54. How the hell does someone survive that?

long term alcoholism...bac doesn't reflect actual impairment. it's a proxy measure.

statement from TFA: Someone with a blood-alcohol level of .30 is "in a stupor" and could suddenly pass out, according to Facts on Tap, a national alcohol-education program. It's approaching the level of surgical anesthesia; concentrations just a few percentage points higher have killed people. doesn't apply to all people.

/of course this chick was 20, so...

nopokerface: MaxxLarge: A BAC of .30? Pfffft...cops in Milwaukee get a half-dozen people blowing more than that on any average Tuesday.

Indeed.

I was a prosecutor years ago, and we had a guy test .54. How the hell does someone survive that?

Practice.

Tuesday?

.305 bac when I got a DUI at the tender age of 24.

pudding7: And she's super cute (new window)

i would have totally driven her home, if you know what i mean...

Back when I was at the University of Georgia, the ever-helpful Athens police ran a free Breathalyzer test in the parking lot of the Varsity restaurant after home football games. I remember a group of Delta Tau Deltas dragging a barely functioning fraternity brother up to the machine and convincing him to blow: .48

Police declared that their highest reading ever.

The guys subsequently keeled over and passed out, right in front of the cop. People were stepping over and around him to get their tests.

(I blew .06 but had stopped drinking in the fourth quarter).

A Fark Handle: pudding7: And she's super cute (new window)

i would have totally driven her home, if you know what i mean...

I would have let her blow my breathalyser.

Impresive drinking skills but she is no Marion Ravenwood.

I have seen somebody drunker.

/but I was weaning him off the vent.

I call shenanagans, she is smiling and walking pretty well, maybe she took a swig on that bottle just before the breath test.

Lightweights Tjhat was what? 24 beers and a medium bottle pf Jaeuee at best.?%m

/somebody carry me to ny car, I;ll drive toyu all h9me

Englebert Slaptyback: Someone with a blood-alcohol level of .30 is "in a stupor" and could suddenly pass out, according to Facts on Tap, a national alcohol-education program.


And they would have NO reason to exaggerate or anything. :-|

Haven't there been Fark articles where people hit .45 or something and were still walking and talking?

You left the funniest part of that line out!

"It's approaching the level of surgical anesthesia; concentrations just a few percentage points higher have killed people."

Well duh! because we're talking about tenths and hundredths of 'points'- so yes, if your BAC is say 2%, then yea- you're dead drunk.

I was worried it was me so I rtf. Wrong place, wrong gender. Thusly, it's ALL good...

RobDownSouth: (I blew .06 but had stopped drinking in the fourth quarter).

If you're going to drink like a little girl, you probably should have gone to Auburn.

/hides

R.A.Danny: I thought the term 'I've never seen anybody that drunk' and the FAIL tag were mutually exclusiveinclusive.

FTFY

I love it when journalists say "that's x times the legal limit!" without specifying what it's the legal limit for. Technically, there's no legal limit that determines when you're intoxicated, only one that serves that purpose for operating a vehicle.

MaxxLarge: A BAC of .30? Pfffft...cops in Milwaukee get a half-dozen people blowing more than that on any average Tuesday.


Came here to say ^THIS.

/Late to the party as usual.

I've never seen anybody that drunk.

Challenge accepted.

laars: I call shenanagans, she is smiling and walking pretty well, maybe she took a swig on that bottle just before the breath test.

oh, oh, my turn...0.342

Kar98: Lightweights Tjhat was what? 24 beers and a medium bottle pf Jaeuee at best.?%m

/somebody carry me to ny car, I;ll drive toyu all h9me

I see what you did there

Why does the cop in the video look like he has no clue how to put handcuffs on someone?

Watched the video and she wasn't incoherent or stumbling around.
The cops a liar. He's definitely seen drunker people than that.
So she handles her booze well, lots of party girls can do that.

nopokerface: I was a prosecutor years ago, and we had a guy test .54. How the hell does someone survive that?

I know a guy who goes into DTs requiring immediate medical intervention when his BAC gets below .28

The more you drink the higher BAC level it takes to reach a given level of impairment.

This is why alcoholics can walk and talk and the same BAC that would kill a college freshman.

What this also means is that an alcoholic with a .10 BAC is much more able to drive than that same college freshman with a .08 BAC.

But, it's much easier to stick with fixed values for everyone. So we do. And we say things like, 'At .30 you will die' because someone at .30 could die.

FIELD SOBRIETY TEST (copcam animated gif)

"Now take this end of the tape measure and
bend down and place the end on the parking line,
and I'll do the same thing 2 spaces away..."
/-->
//toolarge.gif is toolarge :(

pudding7: And she's super cute (new window)

She flashed a cute little smile at the camera, too. I'll match her BAC and we can make little .30BAC babies.

Saw a .69 on a "found down" homeless guy working at (name removed) ER in Chicagoland.

/He was fine when he woke up...Well, at least as fine as the other 5 times he did the same thing.