his liver will be Buried Separately with Honors!!!
Posted on 01/04/2005 8:10:02 PM PST by Loyalist
SOFIA, BULGARIA - Bulgarian doctors tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was 0.914 – nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening.
The 67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec. 20 after a car knocked him off his feet in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, police and doctors said Tuesday.
A breath test indicated blood-alcohol levels so high that police thought their equipment was broken, because the man remained conscious and talked with them.
The head of Plovdiv police, Col. Angel Rangelov, said five separate lab tests taken the same day confirmed the man's blood-alcohol level of 0.914.
A blood-alcohol level of 0.55 is considered potentially fatal.
In comparison, the Bulgarian man's level was more than 11 times higher than the legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Canada, which is 0.08.
The man, who has not been identified, was reported to be in stable condition after being treated for head injuries.
Written by CBC News Online staff
They never saw me in college.
What a liver...what a liver.
I'm [hic] impressed.
A lifetime of straight-vodka-drinking will make things like this possible, but Jesus! 0.914?
JD/ISH ping
Wow...it takes some practice to get to .914. That'd win some pool bets in the ER
If he stopped drinking he'd be dead. Bourbon shooters for everyone! LOL
This guy is my new hero! Now I have a world record to aim for... 0.915, here I come!
Hold muh keg alert!
That’s an interesting fund raising picture… at least to me. The Filipina (?) in it is a dead ringer for someone I used to know…
his liver will be Buried Separately with Honors!!!
I gotta foward this story to my Bulgarian friend Vlady. :)
LOL! and likely true.
AND it took a car to knock him down!
Sounds like they found him in a street, not sitting next to a canal with a car in it.
Bulgarians must be tough hombres!!!
The highest BAL I ever witnessed was .435. If I had to make the call without a test I would have said borderline, but under the legal limit of .10 (at the time). The guy passed every field sobriety test with ease. This incident made me a believer that the legal limit can be very different, for different people.
This guy enrolled in an organ donor program.
Upon his death...he willed his liver to a sterno fuel company.
Well, this is one fella that won't need embalming when he does die......
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