Lithuanian Police pulled over a 41-year-old driver yesterday on the suspicion that he was intoxicated.Man, that was a good guess!
Police had the man take a breathalizer test, and the results were so high they thought their machine must be broken. It was not.
The man registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices.
The legal limit in Lithuania is 0.4. Doctors consider anything over 3.5 grams per liter to be lethal for most people.
"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned."
"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.
How did he get so drunk? Vidmantas Sungaila said that he had been drinking the night before, and tried to "freshen up" by drinking a pint of beer for breakfast.
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