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Old 12-01-2005, 12:28 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sticky
If you are drunk, you don't blow a .04. There is a reason that the limit, currently anyway, is set at .08. This is the point after which the govt belives that you are drunk i.e. you can't drive a car. Any amount lower than that, according to the govt, means that you had a drink.
If you were drunk you would have blown higher than a .04.
Or conversly, if you would have blown a .04 you were not drunk.
Actually, assuming tspikes51 is the size of the average male, he could drink 3 drinks in an hour and still be legally able to drive. .08 is actually pretty damn drunk--if you've ever tried "drunk goggles" that are meant to illustrate impairment, they definitely prove this point.

Here is a chart for your perusal:



However, there's a reason it says "don't drink and drive" all over it. Don't do it. Bad idea. She's right to have chewed you out, but to be so inflexible...

Move on, dude.
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