Bevendean Hillbilly
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Did anyone see it? Geraint Jones's look at the perennial drunken driving Christmas mayhem.
He had a group of people,men and women, who admit regularly driving after drinking various amounts. The show was obviously supposed to be a sobering (sorry) look at the issue with lots of clips of various pissheads crashing into trees, policemen etc. but when he breathalysed the group he was with, in the pub, the results were shocking:
bloke 1: drinks six pints of lager: just over the limit
bloke 2: 4 large red wines: 1/2 the limit
bloke 3: 5 pints bitter: Just under the limit
girl 1: 4 white wines: just over
girl 2: 8 yes 8! Malibu and cokes; barely registered any alcohol at all!
At the end Geraint drinks 5 large Vodka and Cokes, off his nut and when breathalysed: half the limit!
two things occur to me: The breathalyser is obviously not a good way of determining intake because of differing physiology so surely is unreliable as a legal tool for prosecution and secondly should there be a zero limit given these mad results.
I have certainly driven after drinking in the past (not now I hasten to add!) but would never imagine I could canre the Vodka for an hour and still provide a negative sample
He had a group of people,men and women, who admit regularly driving after drinking various amounts. The show was obviously supposed to be a sobering (sorry) look at the issue with lots of clips of various pissheads crashing into trees, policemen etc. but when he breathalysed the group he was with, in the pub, the results were shocking:
bloke 1: drinks six pints of lager: just over the limit
bloke 2: 4 large red wines: 1/2 the limit
bloke 3: 5 pints bitter: Just under the limit
girl 1: 4 white wines: just over
girl 2: 8 yes 8! Malibu and cokes; barely registered any alcohol at all!
At the end Geraint drinks 5 large Vodka and Cokes, off his nut and when breathalysed: half the limit!
two things occur to me: The breathalyser is obviously not a good way of determining intake because of differing physiology so surely is unreliable as a legal tool for prosecution and secondly should there be a zero limit given these mad results.
I have certainly driven after drinking in the past (not now I hasten to add!) but would never imagine I could canre the Vodka for an hour and still provide a negative sample