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I have just under ten years of AA (and sobriety) under my belt, so I have heard a lot of war stories. I can't remember ever hearing anyone claim more than about
by rvense 5y ago
I have just under ten years of AA (and sobriety) under my belt, so I have heard a lot of war stories. I can't remember ever hearing anyone claim more than about 0.65% BAC. 1% sounds more than a little extreme.
- MivLives 5y agoMost normal people pass out at around .2, so the fact this person could turn a car key is crazy.
- pengaru 5y agoIf you're pounding shots in a drinking game or just hitting the Economy-sized bottle of Bacardi rum directly, it's fairly easy to create a situation where you've gotten behind the wheel buzzed and it all catches up to once you're in motion.
- ksdale 5y agoYou'd have to literally take those shots and go out to your car in the next few minutes to get surprised like that, which... I guess people would do, but it's not that easy. Pounding shots catches up with you very quickly.
- pengaru 5y agoI've definitely had experiences where I managed to queue up a profound amount of alcohol intoxication, becoming realized abruptly after enough time had passed to switch bars on foot. In one specific instance, I promptly became incapacitated before even receiving my first drink at the new bar, falling off a bar stool and vomiting on the floor, unable to stand again, let alone walk. The bar-tender was convinced I was overdosing on some hard drug apparently and kicked us all out for being junkies, because I went from walking in perfectly normal and ordering a drink, to this complete disaster on the floor, in the time it took her to prepare our drinks... It must have been a 10-20 minute delay spent between bars on foot that time. The first bar specialized in stiff sweet cocktails, where they mask stupidly high alcohol content with sugary syrup. IIRC it was called Sugar Lounge (in SF). And I have very low tolerance not being much of a drinker, if you've got tolerance I imagine you can push that time-to-incapacitated delay out quite a bit.
- lelanthran 5y ago> You'd have to literally take those shots and go out to your car in the next few minutes to get surprised like that, which... I guess people would do, but it's not that easy. Pounding shots catches up with you very quickly. This is South Africa we're talking about. He was probably drinking in the car, while driving.
- rufus_foreman 5y agoDrunks aren't normal people.
- adamc 5y agoJust congratulations.
- poetaster 5y agoI climbed over a wall in a police station to get into the loo to pee at .25. Drank a litre of water, climbed back over, sat on a bench and waited for someone to give me the drill. Leaving out a lot of details, wound up buying a piano. I don't drink and drive, though. That's mad.
- withinboredom 5y agoI once climbed up five floors of balconies to get to the bathroom. No idea why I didn’t take the stairs, or the elevator.
- poetaster 5y agoYou are obviously a free climber of some renown! I once sprang from a 2nd floor balcony and landed in a roll. I don't want to think about the amount of alcohol that was involved. Way over. I try to tell that as a cautionary tale. But then, not a scratch. Ok. Now, back to AA.
- withinboredom 5y agoNot really, but it was a couple of years before I discovered that climbing was a sport and there were climbing gyms. When I was a tiny kid, I’d climb trees and rocks like crazy. Used to scare the piss out of my parents.
- arthurcolle 5y agoPresumably you're an ex MI6 agent?