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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Not necessarily, slow and steady does it just as well.
0.40,
GtG
“I heard similar sentiments from a friend, but it involved waking up in his bathtub caked in former food.”
At least he still had 2 kidneys...
I was working at the ER one night and some guy’s buddies brought him in and propped him up in the chair and left. Some one who witnessed it notified the desk after he did not appear to be breathing. He was deader than a hammer from illegal drug OD judging from the track marks.
Good friends like that are just so hard to find.
Looks like a week end summer school picnic at the school I used to work for....in fact I think that is my lost Corning ware coffee cup which would make this pic May year before last....2011. School is at 7,000’n elevation and a Hudson Bay blanket stays in the truck year round.
I was being tactful. ;^)
At least they didn’t push him out of the car door in the parking lot and honk the horn.
Finally a conservative post!
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