[Dragon]

And to think I live in a country where people were driving with 6 promiles of alcohol in their blood and actually survived...
Any wonders I want to get out of this place? 
Though when it comes to drunk driving records, Lithuania takes the cake, with a truck driver with 8 promiles of alcohol in blood. That's twice the official lethal dose. And he survived, IIRC.

[Mongoose]

What decimal amount does a promile translate to?  I found the Polish Wikipedia page on it, but I couldn't exactly figure it out.

[Bobboau]

"Per mille is a tenth per cent , ie. another name for one thousandth (whole)"
so 0.08% is drunk, what he is referring to is 0.6%.
IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.

[Black Wolf]

IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.

[karajorma]

I always feel sorry for my neighbour at this time of year. During the last 16 years he's had to rebuild the front wall on his property an average of once every 2 years due to drunk or reckless drivers losing it on a rather heavily signposted bend.

In addition I've seen a bus and on one occassion a police car lose it and hit something on that curve.

My neighbours across the street though probably have the best stories. They came home once to find a strange car parked in their driveway which turned out to be a stolen car left there when someone being chased by the police lost it on the bend and ended up parked there. The guy decided to simply hop over their fence and run for it rather than reverse out. Another time someone did a hit and run on a bollard near his house. I went out side and asked him if he had his number only to have my neighbour hold up the licence plate he'd left behind.

In short, drinking and driving near my house is a very, very bad idea.

[AtomicClucker]

I always feel sorry for my neighbour at this time of year. During the last 16 years he's had to rebuild the front wall on his property an average of once every 2 years due to drunk or reckless drivers losing it on a rather heavily signposted bend.

In addition I've seen a bus and on one occassion a police car lose it and hit something on that curve.

My neighbours across the street though probably have the best stories. They came home once to find a strange car parked in their driveway which turned out to be a stolen car left there when someone being chased by the police lost it on the bend and ended up parked there. The guy decided to simply hop over their fence and run for it rather than reverse out. Another time someone did a hit and run on a bollard near his house. I went out side and asked him if he had his number only to have my neighbour hold up the licence plate he'd left behind.

In short, drinking and driving near my house is a very, very bad idea.

In my neighborhood, it's been the fault of a white chihuahua that god deemed either yippy enough or too plain dastardly to die. The little bastard has crashed SUVs to Prius wankers. Either way, the owner is to stupid to realize the pooch wants more attention, but to attest in a funny and sad anecdote, more than one time the mumu laden owner has been spotted asking "Where has Princess gone?"

And that little fellar is named Princess, and has a habit of gnawing on jeans and pants when not crashing cars.

As for the drinking, if you intend to get smashed, throw the key in the pool, board yourself up and drink until your liver can't scream anymore. In other words, get so damn drunk you can't move anymore and get anywhere near a car.

[deathfun]

I am so very glad I will always be in the bigger vehicle
It's called a bus

They've been cracking down with roadstops here none stop for drinking and driving. Afterall, not only have they lowered the considered intoxication level, they also use breathalyzers that seem to give more false positives than anything. Worst part, is you still suffer the consequences anyhow (impounded vehicle, license revoked temporarily, etc). Another thing, you can't refuse to take the test either as the officers have been given by law, the ability to give you one regardless

EDIT:

Drivers caught within the warn zone -- defined at having a blood alcohol level of between 0.05 and 0.08 -- will be banned from driving for three days and fined $250. The fine, combined with the towing and storage fees, means that offending drivers can expect pay about $600.

[Mongoose]

"Per mille is a tenth per cent , ie. another name for one thousandth (whole)"
so 0.08% is drunk, what he is referring to is 0.6%.
IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.

Ah, I probably should have been able to guess that.  And holy crap, 0.6?  That's ridiculous.

[NGTM-1R]

There was too much blood in his alcohol stream, apparently.

[Dragon]

"Per mille is a tenth per cent , ie. another name for one thousandth (whole)"
so 0.08% is drunk, what he is referring to is 0.6%.
IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.

I've read that 0.4% is considered the lethal dosage in most of the world, except the Eastern Europe, especially Poland and Russia. 1.0% might be the generally accepted lethal dosage in here (as the guy who had 0.8% survived, and I didn't heard about a case of a living person having more). Also, some time ago there was a story about a driver so drunk that when he was tested with a breathalyzer, the device turned off. It's limit was around 0.4% (must have been imported from the west ), so he had at least that much. And he drove a car. A man from Western Europe would have been dead by that point.

There was too much blood in his alcohol stream, apparently.

Indeed. A great Polish comedian, Krzysztof Piasecki, had a field day with both drunk drivers and incompetent police (it was some time ago, they're getting better now. If only the laws the have to uphold weren't so stupid that nobody wants to obey them...).

[Goober5000]

I always feel sorry for my neighbour at this time of year. During the last 16 years he's had to rebuild the front wall on his property an average of once every 2 years due to drunk or reckless drivers losing it on a rather heavily signposted bend.

That sucks.  Do you mean the front wall of his house, or is there some sort of retaining wall on his lawn?  If it's that big of a problem, perhaps he should invest in a ditch or moat to intercept the car before it moves too far onto his property.

Also, holy crap on the video in the first post.  I've added a disclaimer.

[deathfun]

That sucks.  Do you mean the front wall of his house, or is there some sort of retaining wall on his lawn?  If it's that big of a problem, perhaps he should invest in a ditch or moat to intercept the car before it moves too far onto his property.

OR (Imported from Truly Ridiculous Crimes thread)

[Mikes]

Very good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymiF-okrdMg

[karajorma]

That sucks.  Do you mean the front wall of his house, or is there some sort of retaining wall on his lawn?

Fortunately it's the latter.

[Scourge of Ages]

Very good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymiF-okrdMg

Yikes! Best one I've seen.

[Wobble73]

This thread reminds me of the video where the Irish drunk man was handed a breathlyzer and he tried to take a swig from it. Granted there are no funny drunk drivers, but there are a few hilarious drunks.

(this vid is probably on youtube somewhere but I can't link to it at the mo as I am in work.)