Driver Has 18 Times Legal Alcohol Limit

[Martrae]

May 23, 8:42 AM (ET)
By LIUDAS DAPKUS

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - 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.

[The Kizzy]

Damn, thats deadly. There must have been soething wrong witht eh test or something.

[Jimmy Durante]

I never knew the Kennedys had extended family in Lithuania.

[Ginzburgh]

*NOTE TO SELF*

Don't ever engage in a drinking contest with a Lithuanian.

[Spazz]

Tuggan could take em

[Tuggan]

[Spazz]

and then drive home perfectly str8 too

[Jay]

I have the alcohol tolerance of a 5 year old. I get buzzed just looking at a beer. Go go asians.

[Juls]

I have the alcohol tolerance of a 5 year old. I get buzzed just looking at a beer. Go go asians.

Nah Jay... Not all asians can't drink. :p I can :p used to be worse but had to cut down due to hospitalisation... :D

but i definately can't beat that truck driver

[Markarado]

Juls you can drink a lot for a girl.... that's about all...

[leah]

I have the alcohol tolerance of a 5 year old. I get buzzed just looking at a beer. Go go asians.

haha my friend krystal is part japanese, she's the same way~

[Eziekial]

Is she hot? I need a date for my homecoming in NY.

[Lyion]

My funniest <and a tad scary> overtly drunk image was when I was temporarily deployed on a Brit Naval Vessel (HMS Southampton) and four of us were downing drinks.

The chief next to me had drank about 15 bottles of John Smith, and looked three sheets to the wind.

Next thing, I hear over the 1MC, chief up for gunnery practice. So, he gets up and staggers heading out.

I'd guess his BAC was close to this guys, and he was resposnible for some sort of gunnery practice.

[Harrison]

I should be that guy who bets money that he can outdrink anyone. I'm just afraid someone will die trying

[Juls]

Juls you can drink a lot for a girl.... that's about all...

Thanks for the compliment i think :p

Anyways mark remmeber andrew got caught drink and drive? The penalty is ermm tooo much.. its USD 1500 min with possibility of 1 month inprison.. and he wasnt even drunk.

[Markarado]

He was drunk. He was clearly way over the legal limit to drive. It sucks for him that he has to pay the fine (and I highly doubt he'll get imprisonment), but he did break the law. And yes, I know that the cops only took him because he didn't have the money on him to bribe... but shit he still broke the law.

For those that don't know how Malaysia works.... Drinking and driving is the normal thing to do. Other than having designated drivers (yah right!) there's no other way to do it really. Also, when you get pulled over by cops here it's customary to bribe them. It's not a big deal like it would be in the States...

[Juls]

lol mark.. you drink and drive too :p

[Markarado]

I keep enough on me to bribe the cops though;p

[Juls]

wakakkakakak the cops were requesting RM 2000(USD 580) i dont think anyone would had that much money with them...

[Markarado]

Thought it was only 200 they wanted. I'd have been screwed then ><