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VILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken. It wasn't.
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."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060523/...d_drink_driver
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What's that in American? 
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Originally Posted by Dakar
What's that in American?
The US measurement is a percentage, not dependent on any particular unit of measurement. However, the measurement given in the article -grams per liter- is unusual. Most of the time, you see it as grams per hundred milliliters. Divide the article's measurement by 10 to get that number: 0.727.
Here's where things get cool. The specific gravity of blood is extremely close to that of water, so one milliliter of blood weighs basically one gram. 100 milliliters, therefore, weighs 100 grams, and so now you're dealing on a scale of 1/100: a percentage. So if you can get a measurement in grams per 100-mL, the number is basically the same as the US' Blood Alcohol Content measurement.
In other words, this man's BAC (by US reckoning) is 0.727. A BAC of 0.5 is usually fatal. The legal limit in the US varies from state to state, but for non-minors it's usually 0.08 (for minors it's often 0.02). The Lithuanian legal limit translates to 0.04, as a point of reference. This guy was at almost 20 times the legal limit in Lithuania, and at almost ten times the limit for most US states.
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Originally Posted by Millennium
In other words, this man's BAC (by US reckoning) is 0.727. A BAC of 0.5 is usually fatal. The legal limit in the US varies from state to state, but for non-minors it's usually 0.08 (for minors it's often 0.02). The Lithuanian legal limit translates to 0.04, as a point of reference. This guy was at almost 20 times the legal limit in Lithuania, and at almost ten times the limit for most US states.
That's what I thought, but I figure I was either insane or retarded. No, turns out that guy was.
By the way he should be studied, medically. That's amazing.
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Only in America !
Uhm, no, wait. Nevermind. 
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