Hastings, MN Man Arrested with BAC of .54 :eek:
 

HOLY SHIT!!! Guy was like a tank of propane. If he farted if could have been all over....

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A Hastings, Minnesota man may have set a new state record, all–be–it dubious.

Police arrested the man with a blood alcohol content of .54.

The man refused to get out of a car saying he was too drunk the night before and wanted to sleep it off.

He also told police he drank a bottle of tequila shortly before his arrest.

He was transported to detox.

That sounds fishy. He might've blown a 0.54 on a breathalyzer, but I'd bet it was mostly due to a recent swig of tequila.

If he had an 0.54 BAL on an actual blood test, that would really be noteworthy, as I've always heard 0.40 is fatal.

How is that even possible? Pass out is near .30 and coma near .40 from what I have heard.

Not correct

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content

Cases of high blood alcohol levels

On Monday March 26, 2012, a man was found in a ditch with a BAC of 0.552%.

In November 2007, a driver was found passed out in her car in Oregon in the United States. A blood test showed her blood alcohol level was 0.550%. She was charged with several offenses, including two counts of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, reckless endangerment of a person, criminal mischief and driving with a suspended license. Her bail was later set at US$50,000, since she had several previous convictions for similar offenses.

In December 2007, a driver was arrested in Klamath County, Oregon, after she was found unconscious in her car which was stuck in a snow bank with its engine running. Police were forced to break a car window to remove her. After realizing she was in alcohol-induced coma, they rushed her to the hospital where a blood test showed her blood alcohol level was 0.720%. She reportedly was released from the hospital the next day.She was subsequently charged with drunk driving.

In July 2008, a driver was arrested after he ran into a highway message board on Interstate 95 in Providence, Rhode Island. A breath test showed his blood alcohol level was at 0.491% and he was raced to the hospital where he was sedated and placed in a detoxification unit. He was subsequently charged with driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest. He was later sentenced to one year probation, a $500 fine, 40 hours of community service and a one-year loss of his driver's license. The police later stated that his blood alcohol level was the highest they had ever seen for someone who hadn't died of alcohol poisoning.It was later estimated that the driver had consumed 10–14 drinks over the course of 1–2 hours,based on the standard levels of elimination which as documented previously can vary by up to 300%.

In December 2009, a South Dakota woman was found behind the wheel of a stolen car with a measured blood alcohol content of .708%, almost nine times the state's limit of .08%, thus becoming the highest recorded level of alcohol toxicity for the state. After she was hospitalized, she was released on bond and subsequently found in another stolen automobile while under the influence.

In August 2012, an Iowa man was arrested for driving under the influence. Breathalyzers and subsequent lab tests confirmed a BAC of .627%, over 8 times the legal limit for driving. At that blood alcohol level, he was conscious, yet incoherent and unable to answer simple questions.

Highest recorded blood alcohol level/content

There have been reported cases of blood alcohol content higher than 1.00. In March 2009, a 45-year-old man was admitted to the hospital in Skierniewice, Poland, after being struck by a car. The blood test showed blood alcohol content at 1.23. The man survived but did not remember either the accident or the circumstances of his alcohol consumption. One such case was reported by O'Neil, and others in 1984. They report on a 30-year-old man who survived a blood alcohol concentration of 1,500 mg/100 ml blood after vigorous medical intervention.

In South Africa, a man driving a Mercedes-Benz Vito van containing 15 sheep, allegedly stolen from nearby farms, was arrested on December 22, 2010, near Queenstown in Eastern Cape. His blood had an alcohol content of 1.6 g/100 ml. Also in the vehicle were five boys and a woman who were also arrested.

In 1995, a man in Wrocław, Poland, had a car accident. At the hospital, his BAC was determined to be 1.48%. Concerned that their equipment was malfunctioning, doctors also performed five separate lab tests, all of which confirmed the man's blood alcohol content. He died a few days later from wounds from the car accident. Police were baffled as to how an individual could attain such a high blood alcohol. Later, police discussions with his brother-in-law revealed that he had "beer bonged" pure grain alcohol allegedly stolen from his place of work, a chemical plant.

In 2004, an unidentified Taiwanese woman died of alcohol intoxication after immersion for twelve hours in a bathtub filled with 40% ethanol. Her blood alcohol content was 1.35%. It was believed that she had immersed herself as a response to the SARS epidemic.

In Poland, a homeless man was found sleeping half-naked on January 28, 2011, in Cieszyn. His blood had an alcohol level of 1.024%. Despite the temperature of −10 °C and extremely high blood alcohol content the man survived.

In December 2004, a man was admitted to the hospital in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, after being struck by a car. After detecting a strong alcohol odor, doctors at a hospital conducted a breath test which displayed the man's blood alcohol content at 0.914. The man was treated for serious injuries sustained in the crash and survived.

In February 2005, French gendarmes from Bourg-en-Bresse, France, conducted a breath test on a man who had lost control of his car. He had an alcohol content of 0.976. He was not injured in the accident but was charged with a €150 fine and his driving license was canceled.

Different people will respond differently. A level of 0.40 can be fatal to some individuals, even if others will be able to survive. I wouldn't use the most extreme cases to determine what the fatal level is.

"All-be-it"? Seriously, you KVRR podunk f'ers have a tenuous grasp on the English language.

So if Bob Dole got stuck in a snow bank on his way back to TX Thursday, it would have been illegal to crack open the 2 fifths of Jaeger and leave the car running while he waited to die after the car ran out of gas?

That's pretty chickenshit.

From some of the recent things I've read, it may be illegal for you to crawl in the back seat of the car, with the car not running, and try to sleep it off in a lot of places.

If the keys are in the ignition you are screwed. Or if they can see the keys from looking in you are screwed.

Because it makes a lot more sense to get out and die of exposure on the 30 mile walk to the nearest town than to sit in a functional, running car with a heater.

She was sitting in an immovable motor vehicle and was no danger to anyone other than herself. If she hadn't tagged anything prior to the snowbank, then there's no evidence that she was in that condition before getting stuck and it should be no hard, no foul.

She must have had a shit lawyer.

I know a few people that around the KC area that have lost due to this. But not up here yet. But with the engine running the police have no idea if you have driven there under the influence or not. So you get screwed.

Guilty unless proven innocent?

Isn't that backwards?

Lightweight.

I knew a guy in college who earned the nickname.... point five four.

Nobody lobbies against drinking and driving laws because it's very very unpopular, so they end up being very restrictive and severe. So yes, Bob Dole may get rescued from his snow bank, but if his car is running and he's shit drunk on Jaeger, he's going to jail and losing his license.

Some states can give DUI for being "in possession" of keys. In your pocket or in ignition would get you trip to jail if you were in vehicle.

I knew an alchollic who blew a .375 at 12 noon. Told cops he only had one drink with lunch. They responded "How big was the damn glass?" lol

Probably urban legend, but...

I heard to keep a bottle of liquor in your car, if you ever get pulled over for DD, step out of the car and take a swig from your bottle. Then it's open container, not DD. In any case, the swig will mess up your breathalyzer test so much that they won't know how much you've had.

I would absolutely do this in the following cases:

1. You don't give a **** about your driver's license or fines.
2. You like to show up on random episodes of Tosh.0 as "that dumbass"

If you've ever blown in an Alco-Hawk, you know that you can't blow for at least 15 min. after your last drink or your result will be WAY inaccurate.

Also, what do you have to lose in this situation?

Other than getting taken to the hospital for a blood test?

Because that's exactly where you are headed.

And by the time they get you to the hospital and have that blood test you will have undoubtedly metabolized more of the alcohol.

Again, I ask, given this situation (being pulled over by an officer for suspected DWI), what do you have to lose?

Sounds risky..

If you want absolute facts, call an attorney or the cops. I'm sure either would be happy to give you the correct information.

You know, I once tried to consume all the vodka in the world. I failed in my enterprise, of course, but during the effort I'm quite certain that I maxed out on whatever BAC I can personally tolerate. I am pretty sure that, had I reached a .50 or whatever, I couldn't even find my car, hold my keys, move my feet to operate the accelerator or much of anything else other than lie in the dirt and pray for death.

I honestly don't see how people can function at all under those sorts of conditions.

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