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Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
DTJ > wrote in
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On 24 Dec 2005 23:14:56 GMT, Jim Yanik > wrote:
>DTJ > wrote in : > > >> >> Well, yeah. One drink results in a BAC of .1, which is why everyone >> with any brains wants to repeal our drunk driving laws. > >Where did you get this "fact"? Tests administered by doctors and police. Where I live, the police used to be split into groups of two, with one drinking while the other tested. Numerous cops who have gone through this have talked about how they were legally drunk long before they had enough to even impact their ability to shoot a gun, much less drive. Doctors I know have tested themselves and others to see how much it takes to get drunk, and frequently a single glass of wine will do it for a male weighing 180 pounds. On the other hand, you can choose to believe what madd tells you. |
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DTJ > wrote in
: > On 24 Dec 2005 23:14:56 GMT, Jim Yanik > wrote: > >>DTJ > wrote in m: >> >> >>> >>> Well, yeah. One drink results in a BAC of .1, which is why everyone >>> with any brains wants to repeal our drunk driving laws. >> >>Where did you get this "fact"? > > Tests administered by doctors and police. Where I live, the police > used to be split into groups of two, with one drinking while the other > tested. Numerous cops who have gone through this have talked about > how they were legally drunk long before they had enough to even impact > their ability to shoot a gun, much less drive. Doctors I know have > tested themselves and others to see how much it takes to get drunk, > and frequently a single glass of wine will do it for a male weighing > 180 pounds. > > On the other hand, you can choose to believe what madd tells you. > Maybe for a 98 lb person,one drink would result in a BAC of 0.10,but not for the average person.And it would depend on whether the person had anything to eat beforehand,or was drinking on an empty stomach. Most articles I've read on this say the "average person" can consume 2-3 drinks without exceeding .08 BAC. Not shots,but drinks,over an average period of time,not guzzling them. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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In article >,
DTJ > wrote: >On 24 Dec 2005 23:14:56 GMT, Jim Yanik > wrote: > >>DTJ > wrote in m: >> >> >>> >>> Well, yeah. One drink results in a BAC of .1, which is why everyone >>> with any brains wants to repeal our drunk driving laws. >> >>Where did you get this "fact"? > >Tests administered by doctors and police. Where I live, the police >used to be split into groups of two, with one drinking while the other >tested. Numerous cops who have gone through this have talked about >how they were legally drunk long before they had enough to even impact >their ability to shoot a gun, much less drive. Doctors I know have >tested themselves and others to see how much it takes to get drunk, >and frequently a single glass of wine will do it for a male weighing >180 pounds. Keeping in mind that 1) The "standard drink" is 4 oz of 12% wine. That's a damn short pour; a real glass of wine might be over 6 oz of 14% wine. 2) The assumption of the breathalyzer is that the alcohol is evenly distributed throughout the system. Not, for instance, concentrated in the mucuous membranes of the mouth and throat, as they will be in real life. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
In article >,
Jim Yanik > wrote: > >Maybe for a 98 lb person,one drink would result in a BAC of 0.10,but not >for the average person.And it would depend on whether the person had >anything to eat beforehand,or was drinking on an empty stomach. > >Most articles I've read on this say the "average person" can consume 2-3 >drinks without exceeding .08 BAC. Not shots,but drinks,over an average >period of time,not guzzling them. Don't believe it. That's a great way to be taken off to jail while the cops laugh at you for saying (like everyone else does) "But I only had two drinks". -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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