Re: Arrest Slow Drivers--One County's Answer to Aggressive Driving

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 00:00

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In article <35990DC2.3B676581@home.com>, DataRat  <datarat@home.com> wrote:
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}DR had a 0.44 once.   But this was from
}a blood sample taken at the hospital.
}( Arizona law requires hospital personnel
}to obtain a blood sample for officers upon
}request ).   The Police Rodent had to fight
}the guy at the scene, and again at the
}hospital.
}
}According to the medical literature, you're
}supposed to be unconscious at 0.4, and
}dying much above that.

Yep.  But the same literature notes that heavy drinkers can build up quite
a tolerance for alcohol and fight with you at levels that you would be
dead at.  Which is probably why your hardcore drunks show higher BACs
than drunks in a college town, given similar behavior.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."

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From: russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers--One County's Answer to Aggressive Driving
Date: 1998/07/03
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