Driver Has 18 Times Legal Alcohol Limit

[Ban Hammer 14,297]

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken. It wasn't.

Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius on Saturday.

Lithuania's legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter.

"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned."

Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams per liter of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people.

"A person this intoxicated should be in an intensive care unit, not behind the wheel," said Tautvydas Zikaras, head of the dependence illness center in the country's second-largest city, Kaunas. Zikaras said he had never heard or read of someone being so drunk.

Sungaila, who was slapped with a 3,000 litas ($1,110) fine and the loss of his license for up to three years, told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast.

Lithuania has one of the worst road safety records in the European Union. Last year, 760 people died in traffic accidents in this country of 3.5 million residents. Most were alcohol-related.

[m_and_m20 0]

I just read that too and was about to post it.......

ummm, and they are sure he's not dead?? that is way too much alcohol to be in anyone's system!

[Ban Hammer 14,297]

I just read that too and was about to post it.......

ummm, and they are sure he's not dead?? that is way too much alcohol to be in anyone's system!

how to tell when you are full of alcohol...you cut yourself and wino's line up to lick the cut

[almaty 19]

that is extreme there...death for most...

[Jaylen Brit 1]

and people who drive drunk should be shot...

Next article!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

A friends wife checked into rehab for alcohol (multiple DUIs) and they did a routine breathalizer upon entry. She blew a 0.4 % BAC. No one could tell. She was a pro. They said she should have been dead.

She is now now dead.

[almaty 19]

A friends wife checked into rehab for alcohol (multiple DUIs) and they did a routine breathalizer upon entry. She blew a 0.4 % BAC. No one could tell. She was a pro. They said she should have been dead.

She is now now dead.

in the end, too much too long will kill you...i had a client die at age 17 of liver failure on the reservation...started drinking listerine at age 5 ...

[silvanski 1]

*burps*

[rclouse 0]

Reminds me of a vodka drinking contest they had in the Ukraine or Belarus last year... the "winner" got plugged in the ground and the "runner-up" was in a coma for two weeks. The very intelligent guy at the distillery who came up with this brilliant promotion was arrested.

Remember: always in moderation.... that's how you Tanqueray.

[silvanski 1]

.... that's how you Tanqueray.

I like that Tanqueray guy with his British accent.

[almaty 19]

.... that's how you Tanqueray.

I like that Tanqueray guy with his British accent.

i do too...

[Laura_and_IanM 0]

.... that's how you Tanqueray.

I like that Tanqueray guy with his British accent.

i do too...

mmmmmmmmmm...british accent...LOVELY...mmmmmmm

hehe...