semperfiguy wrote: ↑June 23, 2017, 5:28 pm
In Thailand, the standard Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) limit is set at 0.05 per cent, which means you are legal if there is no more than 50 mg/dl of blood, which can be tested through both blood or breathalyzer test. In normal circumstances, 50 mg/dl means about two glasses of beer. So if Google Translate is correct on the above, that means the Aussie's BAC was 102 which means he was well over the legal limit.
Good information there.
The last time I was caught at a traffic check, they generously upped the criteria to 60mg/dl. It was near 8 PM when they pack up and I guess they'd caught enough earlier. Anyway, I came out at 53 mg/dl which would have seen me busted if I had rolled up any earlier. I was still admonished by a very polite senior officer.
I had drunk 5 small bottles of beer between 4 PM and 7 PM and admit to feeling a little buzzed so that gave me some sort of benchmark of how much beer constitutes being over the legal limit here.
If this guy was logged with 102, he was hammered and claiming the medications is probably a ruse; unlike Tiger Woods, he was just another drunk driver.
