Congratulation Stanley Kobierowski! Highest blood alcohol level and you're not dead!

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead.

Stanley Kobierowski was taken to a hospital, put in the detoxification unit and sedated, said Maj. Steven O'Donnell. He was arraigned Tuesday on charges of driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest, and he was released after promising to appear Friday at a court hearing.

"The person's lucky they survived," O'Donnell said. "There's no doubt he would have gotten killed or killed someone if he had continued on the route he was taking."

A phone listing for Kobierowski could not be found, and he did not have a lawyer in court Tuesday.

Kobierowski, 34, of North Providence, was arrested after he drove into a highway message board on Interstate 95 in Providence, O'Donnell said.

After police arrived, Kobierowski had trouble getting out of the car, then grabbed it and refused to move, forcing troopers to carry him to the breakdown lane before taking him back to their barracks, O'Donnell said.

A breath test showed blood alcohol readings of 0.489 percent, followed by 0.491, O'Donnell said, the highest readings state officials could remember for someone who didn't end up dead.

The legal limit in Rhode Island is 0.08. A level of 0.30 is classified as stupor, 0.4 is comatose and 0.5 is considered fatal, according to the health department.

Good ol' Lil' Rhody.

Pshaw. Ain't got nothing on Indiana.

Edit: Wait, no, Oregon's got 'em both beat. And a woman, no less!

What a sissy. There is obviously not enough alcohol in Rhode Island. Small state, small aspirations?

I've personally gotten (as in administered the breathalyzer, not participated) levels upwards of a .50 on multiple occasions. Our record holder did a .63, but that was a blood draw from another hospital, not a blow).

So, am I right in assuming that the blood alcohol level is just a percentage by volume?

If so, blowing a .500 means at least 2.5 liters of pure alcohol running through your veins! 22 shots per liter, call it 80 proof spirits or so,

2.5 x 22 x .8 ...

That's 44 shots of tequila!

Usually a level that high requires drinking straight out of the bottle.

What I'm trying to figure out is how some of my drunks manage to kick 2 1/2 gallons of vodka per day. I mean I know that they do ... but how? I would be hard-pressed to consume that much water in a 24 hour period.

I used to drink that much water every day during the summers when I was a kid... Maybe it's 100 degrees and they're playing kickball?

That would be a helluva kickball game.

smoothmoniker;471252 wrote:

So, am I right in assuming that the blood alcohol level is just a percentage by volume?

If so, blowing a .500 means at least 2.5 liters of pure alcohol running through your veins! 22 shots per liter, call it 80 proof spirits or so,

2.5 x 22 x .8 ...

That's 44 shots of tequila!

I think that figure is one half of one percent, isn't it? I don't think you can replace half of your blood volume with alcohol (or add 50% more fluid) and survive, can you?

Whatever the case, Stan has had quite an achievement, and I'd like to buy him a drink to celebrate!

From Wikipedia:

Blood alcohol content (BAC) or blood alcohol concentration is the concentration of alcohol in blood. It is usually measured as mass per volume. For example, a BAC of 0.02% means 0.2 ‰ (permille) or 0.02 grams of alcohol per 100 grams of individual's blood, or 0.2 grams of alcohol per 1000 grams of blood. Blood alcohol concentration is measured in many different units and in many different fashions, but they are all relatively synonymous for each other.

This seems inconsistent. It says BAC's measured as mass per volume, then gives the ratios as mass per mass.

Edit:
Bulgarian's blood-alcohol level astounds doctors

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.

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Els, that makes much more sense.

0.491 is for sissies.

Bulgarian downs 20l of beer for the road
Bulgarian drink driver blows 0.851. Usually, the only people with more than 0.5% in their veins are dead and have been embalmed.

HI,

In some medical aspects,the human body not react the some toxic chemicals,this chemicals are some bound reaction in the body and the due to chain reaction,they might increase the level of the alcohol,some virus act as a antibodies so does not affect the body..



Thank you....

Hello james. Tell me, how do different bodies react to spam?

:eek:

james, do you fortune cookie writings today or after ever?

Personally, I like my spam studded with all those cloves so that it looks like a little minature ham. I then wash it down with copious amounts of alcohol to disguise the taste. :drunk:

Umm, what was the topic again?

miniature ham.

I wonder how Stanley is doing? Do you think he's sobered up yet?

Old Stan is either sober or dead. Repeat after me, "Your liver is evil. It must be punished."