Post #256,424
5/23/06 2:22:04 PM
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They've got to be using different units than us ... right?
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Post #256,425
5/23/06 2:32:14 PM
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Yeah, but that's still twice a reasonable lethal dose.
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Post #256,428
5/23/06 3:16:19 PM
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Breathalyzers can be innaccurate.
Burping just before a test can increase BAC*. Having a drink just before can bump it. Faulty parts in the device, operator error. Lots of ways to screw up a breathalyzer.
*Should be Breath Alcohol Content.
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Post #256,439
5/23/06 4:47:10 PM
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True, but still...
It should be somewhere in the neighborhood. In Ohio, I think they are recognized as being possibly inexact, but they are awful hard to challange. I gather that the cops are required to make multiple types of sobriety tests. Probably nothing to do with justice; there's a lot of money riding on a DUI that they don't want to get away.
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Post #256,440
5/23/06 4:51:14 PM
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Just like red-light and speeding cameras
They put them in downtown Cleveland a couple of months ago. A recent newspaper article quoted several people from the city administration and the police department talking about what a great job they were doing, and how they had met or exceeded all expectations.
I only wish one of them had described a benefit that didn't have a dollar sign attached.
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Post #256,443
5/23/06 4:59:02 PM
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Yupper. Cleveland's strapped for cash.
They are trying to run the police department as a profit center. A lot of the suburbs are running their police the same way. It's the difference between a bankrupt society and a free one. That can be taken a number of different ways, all[1] pretty much accurate.
[1] Now somebody's going to come up with a way I didn't think of in rebuttal, but in general...
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Post #256,448
5/23/06 5:27:26 PM
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We're not a bankrupt society
Dontchaknow, they passed a law. You can't declare bankruptcy any more.
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Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #256,445
5/23/06 5:16:31 PM
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They're measuring it the same way we do.
I've admitted a few people to detox who were walking and talking with a BAL of .6, but the average is usually .35. It's all about tolerance.
In college I was pulled over by the police and blew a .1, which at the time was the legal limit. The cop made me drive into a parking lot and sober up. Which was a good thing, because I was stumbling drunk, and had no business behind the wheel of a car.
Follow your MOUSE
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Post #256,585
5/24/06 8:37:01 AM
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But look at the decimal place
He didn't say "0.727", he said "7.27". That's got to be different.
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Post #256,586
5/24/06 8:44:33 AM
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7 per mil = .7 per cent
1 liter = 1000 grams of water, so 7 grams alcohol per liter of blood is approximately .7 percent.
Have whatever values you have. That's what America is for.
You don't need George Bush for that.
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Post #256,588
5/24/06 8:56:12 AM
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That metric stuff is just too hard for this poor Murrican
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