Posted on 05/14/2013 11:53:52 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
TEMPE, AZ (CBS5) - A 19-year-old Arizona State University student with a blood-alcohol level five times the legal limit was left at a Tempe hospital with a Post-it note attached to his body to alert doctors he had been in a drinking competition earlier in the night.
Tempe police Sgt. Michael Pooley said the unidentified student was found in a wheelchair between 1 and 2 a.m. Saturday in the emergency room lobby of St. Luke's Hospital.
The student had passed out and started shaking and turning blue before the student's fraternity brothers dropped him at the hospital with the note, "I've been drinking and I need some help," police said.
Pooley said the fraternity brothers tried taking the victim to one of their homes because they were afraid of getting into trouble with the police before deciding to go the emergency room.
The student consumed about 20 shots of tequila during a drinking competition earlier in the night, a police spokesman said. By the end of the night, the student's blood-alcohol level was 0.47 percent. The legal limit before a person is considered intoxicated in Arizona is 0.08 percent.
The student told Tempe police that he and his brothers belonged to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
It was not clear whether the drinking competition was at an official fraternity-sponsored event.
The spokesman said the student would be cited for consuming alcohol as a minor.
The police department was continuing its investigation, and said more charges could be coming.
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There may not be a next time when his parents find out. Sorry, kiddo, the checkbook is closed.
That’s how you wake up hungover and pregnant.
That BAC should be reworded to read ABC... “Alcohol-Blood Content” 0.47... dayum!
Crime doesn't pay, but still ya can't expect them to work for free?
Depends how much of a tolerance he’s built up, but he’s definitely thumbing his nose at the Grim Reaper.
Or how many redbulls/X or what ever shinola he decided to also ingest.
I guy I knew from HS was at the same college. He got really smashed, and his sister took him to the ER. Well, the resident was a student of the guy's father at med school, and called up the father...
The father is one that told me the story at graduation party.
Might as well just put-in an IV of 190-proof ‘shine. Hoooo-weeee!
If there were girls allowed in that fraternity....this wouldn’t have happened.
I quit drinking 28mos ago; really don’t miss waking-up naked on the hood my car, with my keys up my butt. Heh.
I do remember a drinking game I participated in many years ago in Germany. I stopped counting at 12 shots of Jagermeister and about two quarts of beer (Holsten Pils, to be exact). The game continued on for another hour or so.
I was really upset the next day, as I was unable to enjoy some really great sauerbraten.
I hope the kid is ok.
I heard similar sentiments from a friend, but it involved waking up in his bathtub caked in former food. As he put it, it was at that point that he revised his plans to become an alcoholic.
I never got to that point, and the naked on the hood of my car was a joke, but I did hit “rock bottom” and had to quit or lose my family, friends and business. I quit.
Congratulations on your recovery journey!
Thanks.
“Former Food”
Lol. Never heard that one before
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