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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Dead Drunk

Posted by CHARLES MUDEDE on May 23 at 10:49 AM

This is a super human for real:

“Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius on Saturday.

Lithuania’s legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter.

“This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record,” Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. “He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned.”

Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams per liter of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people.


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I'm skeptical about the accuracy of the measuring device when working so far outside normal parameters. Not to say this guy wasn't really drunk, but since he wasn't dead, I question the reading.

Posted by Lark Hawk | May 23, 2006 11:04 AM

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I would be skeptical, but this guy is Lithuanian. They are just made of tougher stuff.

Posted by Longball | May 23, 2006 11:30 AM

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My dad's a doctor who used to treat the drunks going through rehab, and he came across someone who drank enough sterno to shift his body's pH factor by 0.3 points; usually a shift of 0.1 is lethal. So I buy this story.

Posted by matt from Denver | May 23, 2006 1:21 PM

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I pulled of 8.0 in High School.

I still get to 4.0 on a regular.

Posted by Don't Even TRip | May 23, 2006 2:51 PM

5

Hey Nigga Schola,

My older cousin can down a half rack with the plastic rings still on it, and still not be drunk enough for me to unzip his pants.

Makes me wonder about all the black-white gay-straight hot-cold being-becomming drunk-sober binaries? If someone can score an 8.0 does "drunk" have any meaning or should we be testing awareness instead?

Posted by Ignorant Gay Cracker | May 23, 2006 3:07 PM

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Hey IGC-
How much do we have to pay your cousin to bang the daylights out of you so you'll shut the fuck up?

Posted by abe izmal | May 23, 2006 3:14 PM

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does IGC just live on Slog waiting for Charles to post...or has he rigged up some sort of alarm so he gets a good penis zap whenerver a new post goes up?

And ditto on Lithuanians being made of togher stuff...my gawd, you ever try Starka? They drink it like water...

Posted by gnossos | May 23, 2006 5:03 PM

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Charles, this ignorant baboon with some sort of alarm rigged up so he gets a good penis zap is beneath a writer like yourself. I am so sorry you have to deal with people like this, I thought we'd rid Seattle of this kind of lowlife.

Posted by Anthony | May 23, 2006 6:09 PM

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