It's really not funny because it doesn't stop there. Two or three years ago a completely habituated faculty member at UMass Amherst hit a pedestrian in a mall p

It's really not funny because it doesn't stop there. Two or three years ago a completely habituated faculty member at UMass Amherst hit a pedestrian in a mall parking lot with something like 0.25 % BAC. Ordinary people would cycle between bed and bathroom at that level of intoxication and feel very sorry for themselves, but terminal addicts go out to the mall and exceed the limits of even their tolerance. Woman fell up the ladder and is now a named chair at a different institution. It's bizarre - it ought to occur to such people that ordinary folks cannot function with six or eight beers in the head, and that they ought to seek treatment for their condition but it just doesn't. No tolerance for alcohol behind the wheel.