Tater

January 29th, 2010 at 2:19 PM ^

.02 for every beer, 5 oz of wine, or ounce of liquor .02 metabolized every hour. To get to .157, you have to have eight more beers or ounces of liquor than hours you have been drinking them. A couple of overpoured watermelons or Long Islands can get you there if you drink them fast enough. Bartenders usually seem to overpour for celebrities because they want their approval, not to mention the chance at a gratuity worth a week's paycheck. For comparison, until MADD became powerful, the level for intoxication used to be .15 in Michigan.

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ZooWolverine

January 29th, 2010 at 3:08 PM ^

That's wrong in two ways: He meant .157. If you could chug 4 beers and only get one quarter of the way to drunk driving, it would be significantly more rare. Also, BAC is already a percentage. A BAC of 0.157 means that 0.157% of his blood was booze. That's still high--for reference, according to wikipedia, most first-time drinkers would be unconcious by that point. It also says a BAC of 0.40 is lethal for half of adults (everyone, not just first-time drinkers).

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UNCWolverine

January 29th, 2010 at 3:09 PM ^

I'm not even sure why I'm taking the time to respond to this post. Wrong on so many levels. 1. .157 means that .157% of the liquid in his blood stream was alcohol. 1a. Blood cannot be booze. 1b. 15% is way off. 2. .157 is not ridiculously high. I've heard reports of people being double that before and .20 is not beyond something that all of us have probably done before.

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ZooWolverine

January 29th, 2010 at 4:13 PM ^

I don't accept that argument. Ray was nearly double the current limit, which is the only one that matters. It's not like the two limits were of equal merit and MADD just was the more powerful group. You don't have to be "crazy passed out" to kill someone. MADD got the limit changed because .15 was dangerous. You may have chosen to play Russian roulette with other peoples' lives and gotten away with it but that doesn't excuse the behavior.

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tedbundy98

January 29th, 2010 at 2:03 PM ^

I don't believe Dhani was competing with Ray for the MLB spot. I dont see why these millionaires can't hire a driver for a night. .157 is definitely not safe, but nothing special in terms of Athlete DUI #'s.

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