Man Registers Deadly Blood-Alcohol Level

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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.

 

 

 

The 67-year-old man, whose name was not released, was hospitalized Dec. 20, when a car knocked him down on a street in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.

 

A breath test showed high blood alcohol level, but police officers thought the result was inaccurate, because the man was conscious and talked with them, said Col. Angel Rangelov, head of police in Plovdiv.

 

Laboratory analysis of five subsequent blood samples taken the same day confirmed that the man had had a 0.914 blood alcohol content, Rangelov said. An 0.55 blood-alcohol level is usually considered as life-threatening.

 

Dr. Svetlan Dermendzhiev of Plovdiv's University hospital told state news agency BTA he had not seen such a high level.

 

The man was reported in stable condition after treatment for head injuries.

[Gryph]

It's from all that vodka they drink there.

[Agozer]

I just saw this n another forum. Scary if you ask me. How can the man be talking and standing in a condition like that?

[emsley]

I read in the ultra poor areas, they will drink window clean that you put in cars.

Got a point though, i mean been out of your face kinda takes the edge of reality.

[OverlordMondo]

Psh. I talk and stand when I'm drunk all the time. I'm pretty sure I got a 2.0 on one of those things before, and I was in perfect condition.

[Agozer]

I read in the ultra poor areas, they will drink window clean that you put in cars.

Some homeless people do that here too, and then again, Helsinki isn't really "ultra poor"; just some of the people.

[Gryph]

Psh.  I talk and stand when I'm drunk all the time.  I'm pretty sure I got a 2.0 on one of those things before, and I was in perfect condition.

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Haha, I really doubt that.

[emsley]

Listen to gryph, he is the medicine man.

[Cominus]

Psh.  I talk and stand when I'm drunk all the time.  I'm pretty sure I got a 2.0 on one of those things before, and I was in perfect condition.

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Haha, I really doubt that.

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Kanit be for real. Put it on something.

[Weirdy]

I heard that in checkpoints you can sometimes get away with driving drunk if you eat an onion...or two before

 

or a onion and a pickle

[Gryph]

I've heard that putting pennies in your mouth does something too. I've never tried it though.