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Termyn8or -> RE: This guy shoulda been dead (7/22/2008 11:28:09 PM)
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That's a pretty good record. Actually I think it should get him into Guiness. My family's top score was 0.353 and we a,,,were pros. Most people are passed out by then. My record is 0.254, and I will admit fully that I should not have been out there and I am not whining about it. What I mean is that I'm glad I didn't hurt somebody, because I did get into a wreck. Live and learn, lose, pay the fines too, and I am surprised that I never got sued by that golf course I parked the van in, by sliding into it on it's side.
Actually if the guy with the 0.491 could walk and talk at all he is a pro. He is never going to quit. With enough jail and fines you might get him to not drink and drive, even stay sober enough to drive to work and back, but you will never get him to quit without throwing him in prison for life.
The only thing that could happen to me that would even have a prayer of getting me to quit completely would be to have a kid. And that ain't happenin. No matter what people say, once an addict, all you can do is stop. You can stop all week and just drink or whatever on the weekends. You can turn it into an occasional thing.
And I know there is someone here who has stopped, and I mean for many years, but that is still only stopping. It is not quitting.
It is the same with any drug, alcohol is but one of many these days. Even the cigarette in my hand.
But a 0.491 ? That is almost worth it just to set the record. That guy had to be pickled, I don't even want to think about it and I certainly don't want to go there.
I remember a story, probably researchable on the net, this college kid died in Mexico. He got robbed and the robbers made him drink a whole bottle of booze. He died from alcohol poisoning, which is why it made any kind of news.
So tolerance is obviously a factor, and actually I would like to know where the guy got enough money to, over the years acclimate his body to tolerate this level. If he could even drive a car at all that is phenomal. That is a hell of alot of alcohol. I kinda wonder what his O2 count was. I could see them pronouncing him dead and him yelling "I ain't fucking dead".
Be interesting to know if that really is a record. And no I won't try to break it. Have to check other countries, possibly do a little math to convert the number. I wonder if Guiness is doing that right now.
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