Via the AP: <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=8&u=/ap/20050104/ap_on_fe_st/bulgaria_drinker' target='_blank'>Bulgarian has .914 BAC</a>
the lead paragraph:
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Incredulous doctors made five blood tests on a drunken man to confirm he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.914, far above the usual life-threatening range, police and doctors said Tuesday.
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Apparently he was hospitalized after a car knocked him down. That's right- the car knocked him down- not he fell over from having a .914 BAC, he was hit by a car.
Anyone know how BAC translates as a percentage of his blood?
Think he might have a drinking problem?
DogTracks Wrote:Anyone know how BAC translates as a percentage of his blood?
That's almost 1 percent alcohol, isn't it?
Wow.
My father, an ex cop, once stopped a guy coming home from his job from the Ford plant in Wayne, Mich. It was speeding or something innocuous... and something small tipped my father off. He blew a .41 or something -- but he was talking like a politican, no slurring, probably could have worked some overtime if he was asked to.
.41 is supposed to kill you. It's, like, legally dead.
.91?
Ok... wikipedia explains the relationship between BAC and % of blood that is alcohol
"BAC, is the concentration of alcohol in blood, measured, by volume, as a percentage. For example, a BAC rating of 0.20 means 1 part per 500 in an individual's blood is alcohol."
So, doing a little math...
Yep, his blood was almost 1% alcohol.
Obviously I don't know, and this seems insane, but it would seem that his blood was 91.40% alcohol. Shirley, this can't be true? :eek:
Okay, just read the post above and that makes much more sense but I still think it's a funny thought to have 91% alcohol. :D
Has to be an urban myth. Even serious alcoholics can carry maybe a .4 or .5 without being comatose. Average person is in trouble (read: may die) around .25 to .3.
OVERHERD Wrote:Has to be an urban myth. Even serious alcoholics can carry maybe a .4 or .5 without being comatose. Average person is in trouble (read: may die) around .25 to .3.
The story I'm telling you is true to the best of my knowledge. My father stopped a competent driver who blew a .41... and wasn't even staggering.
The reason I know this story 20 years later is because it was so damned unusual.
Most folks have gone to the content measure vs. percentage level even though they correlate.
A concentration of 0.08 (legal limit most states) is equal to the old style of saying 0.08%.
Some science nerd from our health department tried to explain the reason for the change to me but it made about as much sense as spending money to watch a track meet.
Touchdown Rrrrrooockets! Wrote:Obviously I don't know, and this seems insane, but it would seem that his blood was 91.40% alcohol. Shirley, this can't be true? :eek:
Okay, just read the post above and that makes much more sense but I still think it's a funny thought to have 91% alcohol. :D
I guess he would be pretty well preserved.
And if he ran low on antifreeze he could just bleed a little into the radiator. :eek:
I believe King Bob's expertise is needed!