I just had a great week of SFST and learned a crap load.
Then I read things like this on the internet
"i'm calling BS on this. it has to be a physical impossibility to drink 15 beers and blow a .10. At his weight, even if the drinks were over a period of 5 hours, the average person would still would have double a .10. If this story is not embelished, your friend is a stastitical anomaly and we should not use his experience to extrapolate.
The average man needs to start worrying about being legally impared at 3 beers, the average women at 2. You should be able to share a bottle of wine at dinner and drive home, not worrying about whether you would pass a breathalyzer test if you got pulled over. Legislation in this country about drunk driving is more often than not controlled by people that have had a personal tragedy caused by someone who is drunk driving. This isnt right. Level headedness and common sense needs to prevail. Most of these people think that one drink is too much to drive after. Some states the limit is down to .06. Not many politicians have the balls to stand up for reasonable limits, because you'll get branded as a supporter of drunk driving.
The people weaving over the road and hitting parked cars are blowing .2s and .3s, not .06s and .08s."
Now I tested not only 1, but several people who were way higher than they seemed and way lower than they seemed.
One guy for example had resting nystagmus, he had onset prior to 45 degrees, he had distinct and sustainted nystagmus as maximum deviation.
This guy even had vertical nystagmus.
He couldn't do any of the tests. Failed everything horribly on every clue. He was trashed and he blew a .07
He only had 4 beers and said he never drank. Then there were people who did pretty well on all the tests besides HGN and were incredibly high.
I guess my question here is to reinforce the things I learned and basically I hear things like what this guy says a lot ...
The people weaving over the road and hitting parked cars are blowing .2s and .3s, not .06s and .08s.
In my experience I wouldn't even want the .07 guy I tested driving. He couldn't even freaking walk. Is the public just plain stupid or am I wrong because I have heard these types of statements all my life?
Then I read things like this on the internet
"i'm calling BS on this. it has to be a physical impossibility to drink 15 beers and blow a .10. At his weight, even if the drinks were over a period of 5 hours, the average person would still would have double a .10. If this story is not embelished, your friend is a stastitical anomaly and we should not use his experience to extrapolate.
The average man needs to start worrying about being legally impared at 3 beers, the average women at 2. You should be able to share a bottle of wine at dinner and drive home, not worrying about whether you would pass a breathalyzer test if you got pulled over. Legislation in this country about drunk driving is more often than not controlled by people that have had a personal tragedy caused by someone who is drunk driving. This isnt right. Level headedness and common sense needs to prevail. Most of these people think that one drink is too much to drive after. Some states the limit is down to .06. Not many politicians have the balls to stand up for reasonable limits, because you'll get branded as a supporter of drunk driving.
The people weaving over the road and hitting parked cars are blowing .2s and .3s, not .06s and .08s."
Now I tested not only 1, but several people who were way higher than they seemed and way lower than they seemed.
One guy for example had resting nystagmus, he had onset prior to 45 degrees, he had distinct and sustainted nystagmus as maximum deviation.
This guy even had vertical nystagmus.
He couldn't do any of the tests. Failed everything horribly on every clue. He was trashed and he blew a .07
He only had 4 beers and said he never drank. Then there were people who did pretty well on all the tests besides HGN and were incredibly high.
I guess my question here is to reinforce the things I learned and basically I hear things like what this guy says a lot ...
The people weaving over the road and hitting parked cars are blowing .2s and .3s, not .06s and .08s.
In my experience I wouldn't even want the .07 guy I tested driving. He couldn't even freaking walk. Is the public just plain stupid or am I wrong because I have heard these types of statements all my life?
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