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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:53 PM
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Your highest Blood Alcohol Level ever
obviously you probably won't know exactly but take a guess. I'll guess around 0.15
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:55 PM
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1. Last time I went to a DU get together
I think I hit tops then. All that damn sangria...oooh my head the room is spinning
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:56 PM
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2. 0.001
i've only had 4 sips in my life, at a passover sedar when i was 13.

got my first truly wicked migraine the next day, haven't had a drop since.
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:56 PM
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3. I dont know?
Edited on Sat Aug-02-03 12:00 AM by Lady Freedom
Can anyone give a good guess at what it would be after 15 cherrydrops, 5 beers, 6 tecela(sp?) double shots, and 6 drinks called fuck-me silly.?

edit: in 2 hours time?
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:10 AM
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8. God that has got to be way up there!
But at lest I'm alive to tell it!
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Momof1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:57 PM
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4. ummm, well I was a bad girl, and was arrested on 1/19/91
2 days after watching the war, extremely depressed and got busted for DUI my bac was .235

I was young, and extremely depressed, I had a brother in the war.
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aquaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:58 PM
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5. Actually, as a teenager I was arrested and blew
a 0.25, I was tipsy, don't remember much. It's a long story.
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:59 PM
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6. shit you all have me beat
I was guessing based on how much alcohol I'm told certain drinks have, but since I passed out I could've been above 0.2
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 10:02 AM
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23. However much it takes to make you see triple
That was the most drunk I've ever been. Innumerable boilermakers at a bachelor party. I can't imagine what I must have looked like to other people when everything to me was in threes.
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MoonGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:08 AM
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7. I'd say roughly .25
Edited on Sat Aug-02-03 12:09 AM by MoonGod
Nearly half a bottle of vodka and a couple wine coolers on an empty stomache. Only time in my life I've been really drunk. Wound up rather ill and had the dry heaves for what seemed like an eternity.

edit for subject typo: roughtly = roughly
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:13 AM
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9. Do you really want to know? I mean seriously want to know?
I've got probably everyone on this board topped, not that I'm proud of it.

I OD'd on vodka when I was 23. On the way to the hospital I died three times, but was lucky enough to be brought back each time. I really should have died that night.

When they tested my blood they told me that there was no way I should be walking around. They'd never seen anyone survive with a blood/alcohol count as high as mine.

How high? 55% of my blood was alcohol. That's not a mistake. Over half my blood was vodka when they brought me in.

Needless to say I was in the hospital for a bit after that.

I guess you could call me Khephra Thrice-Died.
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MoonGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:27 AM
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10. You must have misunderstood something...
Edited on Sat Aug-02-03 12:29 AM by MoonGod
... no way your BAC was 55%.

.55 would almost definitely be fatal.. and you're claiming that your BAC was 100 times that?

Besides all that, you'd have to consume over 2000 drinks in order to get to a 55% BAC.

Maybe it was .55? Which is still WAAAAAAAAAAAAY fucking high, and they were right, you were DAMN lucky to survive. People have died around from having BAC's around .3

edit: left off a 0 in 2000
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:29 AM
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11. 55%? slight exaggeration?
Edited on Sat Aug-02-03 12:30 AM by unblock
ok, the e.r. folks might have TOLD you that your blood was 110 proof, but, sorry to say, unless you we getting a transfusion of grain alcohol to replace your blood, then there's no way you were anywhere close to 55% alcohol.

.55% i might believe, as that would certainly be a lethal dose, but not so high that i couldn't believe one could survive.
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:31 AM
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12. That can't be right, re: 55%. You must mean 0.55, which is VERY high.
http://www.habitsmart.com/bal.html

(snips)

The amount of alcohol in your blood stream is referred to as Blood Alcohol Level (BAL). It is recorded in milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, or milligrams percent. For example, a BAL of .10 means that 1/10 of 1 percent (or 1/1000) of your total blood content is alcohol.

.15 IMPAIRED BALANCE AND MOVEMENT. CLEARLY DRUNK.

.30 MANY LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS

.40 MOST LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS; SOME DIE.

.50 BREATHING STOPS. MANY DIE.
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:48 AM
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13. the highest ever survived
was something around 1.2, which is 1.2% alcohol. 55% and you would've been long dead.

so you were probably 0.55%, which is still very very lucky to of lived.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 01:33 AM
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16. Sue me...I left out a "."
Edited on Sat Aug-02-03 01:35 AM by khephra
;-)

It's late.

The rest of it is according to what the doctors told me. If there's any exageration, it's on their part. The bits about me dying three times, and the 0.55 is right. I just wrote the numbers the wrong way.

I basically chugged a bottle of straight vodka (what's the size of larger than a 1/5th? A liter?) in a half hour/hour...the exact time frame is a bit blurry as you can imagine. One minute I was drinking and then the next I'm in a hospital with tubes everywhere and my arms strapped to the side of the bed.
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MoonGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 01:37 AM
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17. Sorry to be such a prick, but...
"Over half my blood was vodka when they brought me in"

It was more than just a missing "." Stop lying to us, damnit! ;)

</anal-retentive prick>
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Exultant Democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 02:20 AM
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20. You wake up with a...
tube in your ass? My buddy drank a 5th of whisky one night and I took him to the hospital, the next day he called me and yelled about the tube in his ass (I think it was to take his temp)
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:58 AM
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14. I once
Drank a case of beer(plain chugging nothing else) in under 8 minutes. I then passed out and threw up allover myself and had one helluva hangover in the morning.
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 01:15 AM
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15. I got blood in my alcohol system once
Thought I was going to die. :evilgrin:

:toast:
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 01:41 AM
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18. Was declared dead
several beer plus most of a bottle of gin. Passed out on the floor trying to crawl back to my room. A med student tried to take my pulse and couldn't find one and started running up and down the hall screaming.

They threw me in the shower and I sort of slithered out and started moaning. They put in my roommate's bed because he'd already thrown up all over mine. I threw up all over his.
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bocadem Donating Member (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 01:48 AM
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19. Awesome
I think it was a full 1.000% for me!
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 02:27 AM
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21. I dunno
but I'm pushing the limit right now :D
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 09:29 AM
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22. .39-not me!
I ran into an old buddy over the fourth, I hadn't seen him in 20 years. It seems that his ex-wife got into the Vodka as a full time job. He was explaining how he got the kids, it seems she was pulled over on the interstate with the children in the back seat. She blew a .39 BAC and had to be revived twice on the way to the hospital. It seems she decided to take a road trip from New York (Rochester), to Florida, she made it all the way to southern Pennsylvania.Scarey to think there are people like that out there!
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Astarho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:22 PM
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26. I knew an ex-cop
who told a story about how they pulled a guy over once. This guy seemed a little tipsy, but not drunk, and passed the sobriety tests they gave him (walking the line, etc.), but because he was an asshole they gave him the breath test and he blew a .37
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 10:39 AM
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24. Man, I don't know.
Never been tested at above the legal limit. How much would you guess a half liter of bourbon on an empty stomach would test?

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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:10 PM
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25. Check out this website with BAC estimator:
www.b4udrink.com

Click on "run the program" or order the CD.
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-03 12:28 PM
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27. When I got caught for DWI..
I blew a .22 on the machine. I'd have to say that was my highest recorded BAL.
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