Woman sets intoxication record for WA

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: sm8000

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
I thought that content would make her dead. :shocked:

Yeah, I learned in high school that .4 and above was pretty much death, for the average person.

Yea average non-alcoholic....those alcoholics can handle a crazy amount of alcohol at times...

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: Tizyler
Damn... that means that her blood had more alcohol in it than most hard alcohol.

Er, no, that's half of 1%. Beer is commonly 5%, wine 12%, hard liquor 40%. It's a lot for blood, but not much compared to actual alcohol.

If it was half of 1%, wouldn't it be .0047?



100% = 1.0
50% = .5
10% = .1

Therefore, wouldn't the BAC of .47 be equal to 47%? Thus meaning, 47% of her blood was alcohol, thus meaning more alcohol than a shot of 80proof?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Tizyler
If it was half of 1%, wouldn't it be .047?

Can you see a pattern?

16%
8%
4%
2%
1%
0.5%

Which one is half of 1%?

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Tizyler
If it was half of 1%, wouldn't it be .047?

Can you see a pattern?

16%
8%
4%
2%
1%
0.5%

Which one is half of 1%?

You're mixing percentages with decimals.

1.0 = 100%
.5 = 50%.

Edit: I'm wrong

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Tizyler
You're mixing percentages with decimals.

1.0 = 100%
.5 = 50%.

FAIL

BAC of 0.47 is 0.47%. Make sense now?

Or about 0.94 PROOF. About 1/80th of a spirit.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Tizyler
You're mixing percentages with decimals.

1.0 = 100%
.5 = 50%.

FAIL

BAC of 0.47 is 0.47%. Make sense now?

I understand what you're saying, yes.

It just doesn't make much sense. Why don't they do BAC in percentages?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Tizyler
I understand what you're saying, yes.

It just doesn't make much sense. Why don't they do BAC in percentages?

It is.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Tizyler
I understand what you're saying, yes.

It just doesn't make much sense. Why don't they do BAC in percentages?

It is.

I guess I never noticed a percentage sign.

 

[jimmyjam]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: fanerman91
Isn't the BAC a percentage? Thus a BAC = 0.47 is actually 0.47% and not 47%?

*edit* period in the wrong place

FTW

 

[txrandom]

Looks like a couple people need to learn 5th grade math.

 

[miniMUNCH]

Originally posted by: Tizyler
Damn... that means that her blood had more alcohol in it than most hard alcohol.

Quoted for a laugh... you are not really that stupid, right?

I mean, you know how to use a computer so you are definitely not that stupid.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Tizyler
You're mixing percentages with decimals.

1.0 = 100%
.5 = 50%.

Edit: BAC isn't done in percentages, it is done in decimals.

Nope, you are the one mixing them up. This woman had a 0.47% BAC. 0.47% is almost half of 1%. From the properly written news article:

"Deana F. Jarrett, of Woodinville, registered a 0.47 percent blood-alcohol reading after striking two cars April 11, said Trooper Jeff Merrill, public-information officer for the State Patrol. The legal limit in Washington is 0.08 percent.

A blood-alcohol level above 0.40 percent is potentially lethal..."

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

When my mother was a judge, she once had a DUI defendant appear before her who had a .48 - it turned out she had been injecting vodka!

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Looks like a couple people need to learn 5th grade math.

...

I thought that BAC was simply a decimal, ie: .5 = 50%. I didn't know it was a percentage, ie: .5 is really .5%.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: DonVito
When my mother was a judge, she once had a DUI defendant appear before her who had a .48 - it turned out she had been injecting vodka!

[/drunk]Your honor you can't convicted me of drinking and driving I was shooting.

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: DonVito
When my mother was a judge, she once had a DUI defendant appear before her who had a .48 - it turned out she had been injecting vodka!

WTF :Q

on a side note......... my friend (who has been in nursing for 20 years) had a patient he calle "Crater Mike" I asked him why......... it's because he used to inject liquid draino into his arms and they ate away his flesh :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: txrandom
Looks like a couple people need to learn 5th grade math.

...

I thought that BAC was simply a decimal, ie: .5 = 50%. I didn't know it was a percentage, ie: .5 is really .5%.

So you honestly thought having a BAC of .10 means 10% of your blood is alcohol?

Really?

Serious? You can't be serious.

 

[LarryS]

No pics? She's gotta be a hottie.

 

[MedicBob]

In the past month at work I have had 6 patients over .40% BAC. .44 is nothing and most of the "Pros" can hold a pretty good conversation and walk okay. .625 is my highest of this year though, still breathing but unconscious.

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: DonVito
When my mother was a judge, she once had a DUI defendant appear before her who had a .48 - it turned out she had been injecting vodka!

I meet a guy that shot Everclear. Pretty hard-core in my book. :Q