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Wednesday, January 05, 2005


Here's a guy you don't want to go drinkin' with. At the end of the night, he's the only one that's going to know what happened to your pants.
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.
I don't think I'm speaking out of turn when I say that we've all been on a bender at one time in our lives. But if your BAL ever reaches 2 proof, you need to slow it the hell down.

Of course, the only way anyone could get this drunk is through severe liver failure, but how it didn't kill him is yet to be determined. All I know is that if my blood had more alcohol in it than Oklahoma beer, I'd think about quitting.



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