Police Arrests a Man with Highest Record Blood Alcohol Level
State police arrested a man, who was said to have the highest ever-recorded blood alcohol level of 0.491 percent that should have caused him death.
Stanley Kobierowski, a 34-year-old man of North Providence got arrested after crashing into a highway message board on Interstate 95 in Providence. When police stopped him, the man could hardly move to get out of the car then he grabbed the car to oppose his being taken out of it. Police had to carry him to the nearest lane and back to their barracks, the report says.
A breath test indicated blood alcohol level of 0.489 percent, followed by 0.491, said Maj. Steven O'Donnell. "The person's lucky they survived," he said. "There's no doubt he would have gotten killed or killed someone if he had continued on the route he was taking."
Kobierowski was sent to the hospital, placed for detoxification and sedated. He was charged of driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest and will appear in court on Friday.
Unless a person is considered extremely tolerant for alcohol, a blood alcohol content of 0.20 percent means very serious intoxication, 0.30 is considered a stupor, 0.40 percent is the lethal dose for 50% of adult humans, while 0.5 is considered fatal, according to health department statistics.
Source: The Associated Press.
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//6 Apr 22, 2009 05:39 PM | posted by:
Steve - Note that while breath testers are calibrated in terms of blood alcohol level, that's not what they actually measure. Take a shot of your favorite booze and immediately blow a breath sample. The meter will read "Should be dead and already embalmed!" Breath testing assumes that there is no alcohol in your mouth. Some drunks will keep a sealed bottle in the car and, when stopped, crack the seal in the officer's presence and take a swig to render the field breath test invalid. It may have worked once, but cops will now arrest such people and hold them for later testing. That's assuming that you don't get the wrong cop on a bad day. "Contempt of cop" appears in no statute, but it can get you killed.
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//5 Nov 23, 2008 02:24 PM | posted by:
summer_rain [InfoTOT]
- Well, these maximal doses can always be different for everybody apart, because people are very different too, besides if the man here is already used to such "procedures" ( which is the most probable by the way), his organism must have formed not only dependence, but also tolerance for alcohol, so it isn't surprising. But that doesn't mean he's going to live on healthy if he continues like this, so, people, don't try to follow his example and break the records!
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//4 Nov 21, 2008 03:31 PM | posted by: tatu - Yea, that's high but not highest-ever. The highest recorded value in Finland is a bit over 0.7%, and the person survived. That requires some serious practice...
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//3 Nov 21, 2008 02:39 PM | posted by: bobby - well I don't know about that there once was someone grabbed off by the street by an ambulance and he had .604 & laughed it off
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//2 Oct 07, 2008 08:11 AM | posted by:
sharaeff [InfoTOT]
- Or he doesn't have liver at all....Yeah the guy must be very strong!!!!
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//1 Jul 31, 2008 11:41 PM | posted by: hops drinker - Wow! His liver must be bullet proof!
