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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / January 2008Drunkest Driver Ever?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0110084dui1.html Drunkest Driver Ever? Oregon woman nine times over state blood alcohol content limit JANUARY 10--In what may be the most extreme drunk driving case ever, an Oregon woman was arrested last month with a .72 blood alcohol level--nine times the state's legal limit. Terri Comer, 42, was arrested after she was discovered unconscious in her car, which sheriff's deputies found running and in a snow bank on a highway in Klamath County at 11:30 AM on December 28. After breaking a car window, rescuers removed the comatose Comer from her Toyota and transported her to a local hospital, where a blood draw revealed the .72 BAC. She was reportedly hospitalized for a day before being released. Comer is pictured below in a 2006 mug shot snapped after a prior drunk driving arrest. In that case, her BAC was recorded in the relatively minor .3 range. In November, another Oregon woman, Meagan Harper, was nabbed for drunk driving with an extreme BAC. In her case, Harper's BAC was measured at .55. Comer's .72 edges out what TSG has previously identified as the highest BAC we've ever seen. That fallen record (.69) was held by Willard Ashley III, an Indiana man who was busted in October 2003. >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0110084dui1.html > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Oregon woman was arrested last month with a .72 blood alcohol level--nine >times the state's legal limit. A .37 BAC is enough to cause death - HTF did this woman survive with twice that amount flowing through her veins?  Signature"You can all kiss my @ss!" - Carl Rogers, Message-ID: <IE1ej.2353$se5.298@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com> >>http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0110084dui1.html >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >A .37 BAC is enough to cause death - HTF did this woman survive with >twice that amount flowing through her veins? I dunno, but I suspect she was driving a beater. SignatureSarcasm is my sword Apathy is my shield >>http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0110084dui1.html >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >A .37 BAC is enough to cause death - HTF did this woman survive with >twice that amount flowing through her veins? Tolerance. If your newspaper prints DUI arrests, you'll note that over .40 isn't that uncommon; alcoholics can get to that level without much problem. Though if .72 that wasn't a blood test you should probably take it was a pillar of salt. SignatureThere's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. >>>http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0110084dui1.html >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >Tolerance. If your newspaper prints DUI arrests, you'll note that >over .40 isn't that uncommon They do, but they don't usually mention the BAC. They just say DUI and give the location of the arrest. Signature"You can all kiss my @ss!" - Carl Rogers, Message-ID: <IE1ej.2353$se5.298@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:29:00 -0600, russo...@grace.speakeasy.net > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > - Show quoted text - The BAC would have to be significantly high to be worthy of print...think around .20 IIRC, and that if a repeat offender or if an *accident* occurs. Most DUI arrests of problem drivers are well above the old limit of .10, making the reduction to .08 of little effect except at checkpoints. > The BAC would have to be significantly high to be worthy of > print...think around .20 IIRC, and that if a repeat offender or if an > *accident* occurs. Most DUI arrests of problem drivers are well above > the old limit of .10, making the reduction to .08 of little effect > except at checkpoints. HAHAHA. Spoken like a serial drunk driver. So .08 is "good" drunk driving, huh?? I'm for zero tolerance with drunk drivers. They are kid-killers and only a nut like you wants them coddled. SFB spewed: > > The BAC would have to be significantly high to be worthy of > > print...think around .20 IIRC, and that if a repeat offender or if an [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > driving, huh?? I'm for zero tolerance with drunk drivers. They are > kid-killers and only a nut like you wants them coddled. I'm for zero tolerance with road way killers who seem to kill someone every couple of years or so. Just to be generous, I'll let you pick your method of execution: 1) Electric Chair 2) Firing Squad 3) Hanging 4) Run over by Hummer repeatedly. No, wait, Let's just tie you up and make you look at pictures in WHL-360 for a few years. That would be worse than death. Signature"Oh yeah. Well i've gone 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash so i must be doing something right." --Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend/laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE/ Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are Murderers (SADDAM), 9/24/2006 Ref: http://tinyurl.com/qdotr Msg ID: ivadh2t9kd05ilrgdercft8iuvcls6r5op@4ax.com > discovered unconscious in her > car, which sheriff's deputies found running and in a snow bank on a highway {...} > a blood draw revealed the .72 BAC Talk about running a gauntlet... somehow she spun the wheel right past "head-on collision," "hypothermia," "carbon monoxide," and "passing out and strangling on your own vomit" and landed right on "survive." If the blood-test reading was valid (an important point, as others have mentioned in this thread), the accused may be an experienced drunk who has built up a lot of physiological tolerance,. Or far right-hand tail on the distribution of natural ability to cope with the stuff. Or flabbergastingly lucky (even if she doesn't think so when sitting in jail) to have hit something forgiving -- a snowbank, say, rather than a tree or a truck -- and then been rescued promptly. Pick one or more. Conventional wisdom is that somewhere in the .30 milligrams/deciliter BAC range, a hypothetical typical nonhabituated adult would go beyond All Jacked Up and gett into the realm of potential life threatening effects just from acute alcohol toxicity per se, never mind once- removed ways to kill oneself or others, such as getting behind the wheel. --Joe |
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