A Japanese pilot was arrested at Heathrow airport (London, UK) for being quite drunk just 50 minutes before he was supposed to fly a Boeing 777 to his home country. The 42-year old Katsutoshi Jitsukawa raised the suspicion of a crew bus driver because his breath smelled heavily of alcohol. After the driver had alerted…
Quite interesting news from the United States. Scientific research performed by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) has shown that people who drink alcohol in combination with cannabis get significally higher levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in their blood. THC is the main psychoactive constituent in marijuana. In simple words: you can get a lot more…
Great news from Hungary, as since last weekend it’s no longer a crime to ride a bicycle drunk. The Central European country had a zero tolerance policy for driving under influence on major roads, no matter what vehicle it was. With a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0,05 (0,5 by European standards) or more one would…
In Russia a trainee of the St. Petersburg Police Department was arrested on Monday night for drunk driving. His ‘colleagues’ were called to the spot by a scared woman who he was stalking. The 55-year old Thomas Toft did 2 tests that showed a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.153 and 0.61. He is ‘punished’…
Something that has been bothering us for a while was the question you see in the header of this article. The concepts ‘heavy drinking’ and ‘binge drinking’ were both used in many articles and sources, but the difference never got quite clear. It seems most media just take these terms out of their sources as…
You might have wondered why there were no highscores in blood alcohol content (BAC) of drunk Americans in our list. Well the answer is very simple: the breathalyzers of the police in the United States don’t go too far to get anywhere near the European records. Levi Carter experienced this after he crashed his car…
Even though we are huge fans of drunken adventures we don’t like drunk driving. As you might remember Micky from LOTD once experienced that alcohol and autos don’t go well together. And we wouldn’t recommend anyone to take this risk. However the question remains when you’re too drunk to drive. It doesn’t take a record…
Here’s a funny movie we found on the web. We all know the normal tests to check the blood alcohol concentration. But in Scotland they seem to have their own system, which also seems to be working for them. Just check the movie above.
Have you ever made your own drinks? Your own wine or even distilled liquor? Quite a lot of work right? From grapes or plums to something that actually gives you a buzz. Well not for people with the rare disease auto-brewery syndrome. For their bodies produce ethanol in their own gut. A few months ago…
A 40-year old man from Poland has smashed the record for blood alcohol concentration (BAC). The sample from his blood showed an amazing score of 1,374. For the record: specialists believe that a BAC-score of 0,4 can already be lethal. Officers of the municipal police found the man unconscious and lying on the road in…
Lords of the Drinks 