Woman Registers .47 in Breathalyzer Test

[johnnymk]

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/oddnews/sns-ap-record-dui,0,3945340.story?coll=all-oddnews-hed&track=email_newsletter




REDMOND, Wash. -- A woman arrested following two car crashes last week registered a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test -- nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and possibly a state record.

Jarrett blew the .47 on a portable breath tester after she collided with two other vehicles in quick succession, the patrol said. A check of all 356,000 breath tests administered since 1998 in Washington turned up only 35 above .40 -- and none of those was higher than .45.

The legal intoxication threshold in Washington is .08.

Jarrett did not appear to have a listed phone number, and it was not clear if she had obtained a lawyer.

[VTGreg]

I read that she had received a DUI on the previous day or within the previous week. From what I remember, most people past out in the .24-.3 range so this woman has an incredible tolerance. Definitely not a cheap date. :cheers:

In all seriousness, it's a wonder she didn't kill anyone.

[Prngr44]

In all seriousness, it's a wonder she didn't kill anyone.

Or herself. That's just unreal. I thought your body shuts down at levels that high.


0.40 BAC and up: Onset of coma, and possible death due to
respiratory arrest.

[DarkFury]

Yeah...

Happy Squirrel kinda alerted us to this last week... but due to "subtle titling" it wouldn't have come up on most folk's radar in seeing this.

http://www.gotapex.com/off-topic/153798-wow.html

[Houdini]

Yeltsin and Kennedy had a kid? ;)

Missed my radar as well. Then again, I'm very guilty of vague thread titles.

a .47? Gimme a break. :) I've seen higher (but really not that much higher), and have seen people have perfectly rational conversations while flying that high. Tolerance of a horse. If you pickle long enough, you can somehow survive. For a while.