From time to time, I see these stories about someone who had an accident or got arrested and they have an enormously, outrageously, unbelievably, high blood-alcohol level. I guess I get some kind of perverse kick out of these tales because I always look.
I have also done a little research to see what is the highest recorded BAC of all time. There is a lot of dispute over this as there appears to be no global governing authority on drunk as a skunk, drunker than Cooder Brown, ripped to the tits, pissed as a potter or, high enough to go duck hunting with a rake.
Today’s contestant in the intoxication sweepstakes comes from Breitbart/AFP.
A motorist stopped by Bulgarian police after a minor traffic accident admitted he had drunk 20 litres of beer — and promptly passed out, bTV television reported Monday.
The man had a blood alcohol reading more than double the level usually considered lethal.
The 25-year old driver, who was not named, registered 0.851 blood alcohol content. Bulgaria’s legal limit is 0.05 percent, and 0.40 is often fatal.
.851!!! Damn!!! That’s a big number there 25-year old Bulgarian motorist. By the way, these liquored up losers are always over the level that is normally considered lethal. And, there is no consensus on that either.
Anyway, I was thinking to myself that 0.851, that’s got to be among the highest BAC’s I’ve seen. It does seem like I’ve seen at least one in that same ballpark. And, wait a minute, it also seems that there was one of these “record holders” that was another besotted Bulgarian.
Yep, I was right. A little Googling and I found this CBC article from, January 4, 2005.
The 67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec. 20 after a car knocked him off his feet in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, police and doctors said Tuesday.
A breath test indicated blood-alcohol levels so high that police thought their equipment was broken, because the man remained conscious and talked with them.
The head of Plovdiv police, Col. Angel Rangelov, said five separate lab tests taken the same day confirmed the man’s blood-alcohol level of 0.914.
A blood-alcohol level of 0.55 is considered potentially fatal.
Whoa! 0.914!!! Guess what 25-year old Bulgarian motorist; your 20 litres of beer just didn’t cut it. A Bulgarian geezer, over twice your age, drank you under the table my friend. You can’t hold your drink, can you 25-year old Bulgarian motorist? Better luck next time ya’ yob.
You know what they say; “If you want to run with the big dogs, you got to learn to piss in the tall grass”.
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