BAL .40%: You are probably in a coma. The nerve centers controlling your heartbeat and respiration are slowing down, s-l-o-w-i-n-g d-o-w-n, s-l-o-w-i-n-g d-o-w-n. it's a miracle if you're not dead. In April 1994, a 21-year-old student died of alcohol poisoning with a BAL of .40% after a Hell Night party.
[link|http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2005/02/chico_state_nea.html|Cal State University, Chico death]:
Chico police Sgt. Dave Barrow said Hallmeyer provided two 1.75-liter handles of alcohol to the pledges as part of an initiation-week activity he was in charge of. As interim vice president, Barrow said, Hallmeyer was responsible for the pledges when Peltz was gone.
Nineteen-year-old Richard Amador started drinking poor-quality vodka
[what, like drinking better vodka would have made a difference?]
with his pledge brothers about 6 p.m., Peltz said. He lost consciousness between 8 and 8:30 p.m. from a 0.496 blood alcohol content. Although all of the pledges were drinking, Peltz said Amador has a small build and was the only one with alcohol poisoning.
"I guess he just pounded it," Peltz said.
[ No sheee, Sherlock. For example, one estimator more-or-less calculated that Amador would have to have swallowed about 22 ounces (almost 3 cups) of vodka to achieve a BAC of .496. Another says the rule of thumb is .02 BAC per 1.25 ounce "drink", so Amador would have ingested 24 drinks, or 30 ounces. Of course, speed of intake isn't included in the estimates. Each "handle" of 1.75 liters is about 58 ounces, or about 47 standard "drinks" of 1.25 ounces]
A BAC of 2.0 or 2.5 would have been, um, very difficult to achieve. I presume you mean 0.20 or 0.25.
Cheers,
Scott.