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Driver Has 18 Times Legal Alcohol Limit

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Source: Yahoonews.com

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken. It wasn't.


Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius on Saturday.

Lithuania's legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter.

"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned."


Full Story here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060523/ap_on_fe_st/lithuania_record_drink_driver

At first I thought this was a story about Gary Moller in some over seas adventure,.....,"Do you know who I am?.....I'm the coach of the Michigan Wolverines!"
 
StadiumDorm said:
Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner!! And they say the metric system doesn't make sense.
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SI units rock.

Funny metric story:

In ~1994, I was a summer intern for ODOT in BG. Anyway, I prepared a design/plan set for a culvert replacement, and it was to be the first ODOT plan prepared in metric units. (there was some sort of legislative mantate that ODOT be entirely metric by 1995 or something) So, I spend all summer putting these plans together, etc. and felt pretty good about it when I was finished. So, a couple of years later, I return to my old office in BG to visit with my old coworkers, and asked how the culvert replacement went. As it turns out, they had to convert the entire plan to 'english' units so they could build the damn thing. So typical of a gov't agency.
 
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Found this...

A Bulgarian man presented at the local emergency room with a blood alcohol level so high the doctors checked the level 5 times. The man had a reading of 0.914, or more that 10 times what would be considered drunk in most states. Lethal blood alcohol levels usually occur at the 0.55 level. In most areas 0.08 is considered legally impaired. The man was conscious and able to communicate.
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http://www.atsnn.com/story/109318.html
 
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