NEWS: Driver Blows .72

CULTURE: Driver Blows .72

An interesting fact about blood alcohol content is that different countries use different measurements for judging the amount of alcohol in a person's bloodstream.

This is important to understand if you are to wrap your head around the case of Vidmantas Sungilia, who registered 7.27 grams per liter. This is like blowing a .72 in the U.S. (if my conversion calculations are correct).

The lethal limit .5, and this man was driving, standing, and smiling at .71.

The highest BAC on record is .914 from a man in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian man was conscious and able to communicate.

So, BAC is measured by percentage of mass in both the US and Europe.

In the US, they use grams per millilitre.
In Europe, they use milligrams per gram.

This man in Lithuania had a BAC of 7.27 grams per liter, which is kind of like what one might expect to see in the US.

I'm so confused.

I've added the direct wikipedia entry as it confused the hell out of me, too.

[Edited on May 24, 2006 1:06AM]

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At some point the guy had to notice that the drink wasnt tasting good anymore and alot more like drinking poison. I guess he is ok, but he is lucky he didnt die.

wow. i wonder what that guys liver looks like.

He's lucky no one else died.

hehe take it nobody else here has spent 250 bucks and drank 14 hours strait. redbull does amazeing things if emplored right.

I guess everyone is proud of something.

Wow... he's the next step in evolution.

God bless the golden age of excessive alcoholism! One day we will breathe it!

I dislike drunk drivers immensely. Something about posing an immediate threat to my friends and family, I dunno. I hope this asshat shapes up and stops driving while blitzed. Alternately, I hope he totals his car the next time he does it and loses his gas pedal foot in the accident.

thats alot of dick!

Sure. But I didn't end a stupid, silly night / morning like that close to alcohol poisoning and driving a car.

I'd be interested to travel back in time to a couple nights in my "prime" and see what my BAC was. This guy has a serious dedication to his drinking, which is fine by me, but I also totally agree that this guy should not have been driving. I'm a big supporter of the "kill yourself any way you want to, just don't take others with you" theory. (And coincidentilly believe that the second hand smoke theories are bullshit unless you're blowing hits into an infants face.)

u havent done that? its fukkin rad bro!!!