Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Unusual records

So a little while ago, for reasons I can't remember, I started looking for the record for the worst speeding ticket ever written and the highest recorded blood alcohol content. Surprisingly, no one on the Web seems to have been tracking this sort of thing! I came across these two little gems:

Blood alcohol content: 0.914

Bulgarian's blood-alcohol level astounds doctors (CBC, 1/4/05)
Bulgarian doctors tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was 0.914 – nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening.

Point of interest - for me to reach 0.914 at my current weight (an average 185 lbs.), I'd have to consume about 45 beers or 35 "airline minis" in one hour.

Speeding ticket: 205mph in a 65mph zone

Minnesota trooper writes 205 mph speeding ticket (USA Today, 9/21/04)
The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider, 20-year-old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley, for reckless driving, driving without a motorcycle license — and driving 140 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 65 mph.

205 mph?! Probably noticed by the cops because of the sonic boom. And on a motorcycle, no less - if he wasn't nominated for a Darwin Award Honorable Mention (reserved for those who survived their stupidity), he should have been.

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