County Coroner George Deavers said the person tested positive for COVID-19, but an investigation by him and the pathologist determined the cause of death was ethanol toxicity. The person’s blood-alcohol content was 0.55, or almost seven times the legal driving limit of 0.08 in Colorado, Deavers said. A BAC of 0.3 is considered lethal.
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When I got my DUI back in early 1982, I blew a .27 on the breathalyzer. The cop couldn't believe it because while he could tell I'd been drinking, I didn't appear to be that drunk. Shit man, I'd just gotten out of the army and that was just a light buzz. When he asked me to recite the alphabet I did him one better and rattled off the phonetic alphabet without even thinking twice.
I knew all that Drinking I did in the late seventies in Germany (1978-1981 Frankfurt) was good for something.
ReplyDeleteThose were the same years I was stationed in Heilbronn West Fucking Germany.
DeleteGood times.
When I was there in the mid-80's, I tried to drink all the beer in the country, but sadly, I failed. Beer never gave me a hangover, but wine! Damn, that stuff would mess me up for a couple days afterwards!
DeleteDamn, but that is truly astounding. When the Airmans Club at Clark AB, Philippines put in a breathalyzer so people could know when to take a taxi (no reason not to -- they were astoundingly cheap) or wait for a bus (free), it was a very predictable failure. Airmen were using it competitively, trying to see who could blow the highest. It was removed after less than a month, maybe less.
ReplyDeleteI also got a night in jail shortly after leaving the Army! I blew a .28. In ASAP intake, the counselor asked if on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the drunkest I'd ever been, how would I rate that. I told her about 6 or 7. Her eyes arched up and she sentenced me to about a year of "counseling". After that, I learned to lie.
ReplyDeleteThe phonetic might be easier since it's drilled and drilled into a soldier and used every day for three years or four or 20, but reciting the civilian alphabet, seldom. Civilians think the phonetic is a big deal. "How can you remember all that?" Similar, my kids use acronyms that I often have to say, "Wait. What?" Like some dumbass civilian. Like when my youngest mentioned the "VC on his Stryker." "Wait. The what?" He said, "The VC. Vehicle commander." He laughed then and said, "Times change." And, UH1H, every drunk is different, yours and somebody else's. You can see somebody doing stupid stuff and say, "Yeah, I been that drunk before" and see somebody else, "Man, I ain't ever come close to ever being that drunk."
ReplyDeleteMy old man was an army lifer, so he taught me the phonetic alphabet before the regular one. He thought it was cute.
DeleteTen bucks says the deceased was an Indian - casino, not 7-11. They are all drinking themselves to death in that part of the country, and it is being ruled Kung Flu. Most cases in New Mexico are from the Navajo reservation. It doesn't help that the Oompa Loompa governess, aka Thundercunt, is having them brought in from Arizona, also.
ReplyDeleteThey must be up to the same data distortion as we're getting on this side of the lake. They conflate "of CV" and "with CV" to increase the fatality list. Now you know why I don't trust ANY of the buggers' output.
ReplyDeleteFairfax Co. PD used had an RV with multiple breathalyzers to use at mobile traffic checks. One of the first drivers tested blew a .52. "Crap, the machine is broke. Use the other." Point Five Two. At that point they transported her to Ffx Hospital in a squad car rather than wait for an ambulance. Blood drawn at hospital was rushed to the lab. Yup, Point Five Two. The doctor who had the report came into the ER asking "Have they taken the body to the morgue yet?" The cop said "Nope, she's over there on the phone talking to her husband. Yes, she was not only alive with that BAC but awake and talking. Now THAT takes years of training.
ReplyDeleteCivilian drunk vs Army drunk. Not the same thing.
ReplyDeleteAlpha bravo charlie delta foxtrot....good on ya Kenny. As a lab tech, I ran blood alcohol testing over 38 years. I've seen 0.350's that you couldn't tell from looking at them. It takes long practice though, a 0.350 would be fatal to most teenagers. As for 0.55 though, that's pretty seriously tanked.
ReplyDeleteBest I ever saw when I was a resident in the early nineties. A guy came into the ER clearly intoxicated but coherent at 0.77. DTs started when he got down around .24. We didn't start the meds soon enough
ReplyDeleteMy late father got his last DUI in 1991. He blew a 0.29, and at the time was headed from the previous bar to another to continue partying.
ReplyDeleteAs I'm a "Junior", and I had been the more recent of the two of us to be arrested, the DUI wound up charged to me. Wasn't hard to beat that one--I'd been at sea at the time, & they wouldn't let me steer CV 59, drunk or sober.
--Tennessee Budd