So, no one who has one beer at lunch can have it affect them enough that they would be a danger on the road? Interesting.
And yet the link I provided earlier says that a person of 140lbs can start having impairment effects with only .5 ounces of alcohol, not the .6 in an average beer. And it is also interesting that the majority of the world has legal BAC limits significantly lower than the .08 the OP is saying he is under. Many of which could easily be violated by having just one beer. So, in those locations it would be wrong for him to have his beer, in the location he is in it isn’t wrong. I wonder why those locations think it wrong enough to not allow people to drink essentially anything before driving while you seem to think it is okay?
And yet I am the unreasonable one here for understanding that in many cases one leads to two and that alcohol is a very significant factor in collisions.:rolleyes:
Drunk driving is bad, m’kay? So don’t drink beer… 'cause if you do, you are bad, m’kay?
So people are allowed to sell beer why exactly?
5’7"/140lbs 1 beer 5% in 10 minutes results in a predicted .014 BAC
Only illegal in Czech Republic and Japan. Some countries have lower limits for new drivers.
I get for 345ml of beer .025 using your site (no idea why it would be any more accurate than the ones used on Wikipedia linked from Virginia tech). What size of beer was the OP drinking? I usually envision drinks at fast food places as being on the large size eg. Big Gulp territory.
My fault, I forgot to set the amount for a standard 12oz bottle.
Still, most countries have limits between .05-.08, only a very few are .02.
No problem. Look at the populations of some of those countries in the .02 and .03 range, though. It isn’t a small minority of people who essentially could be found to be breaking the law after only a medium sized beer.
Well, fuck.
I guess that means I have to return that case of 12 year old scotch that I was getting you for your birthday.
Damn it to fucking hell!
Hey, it’s your money. I’d probably give it away to friends, or you’d see it returned next year as 13 year old scotch (12 crossed out with a Sharpie and a 13 written over top!). I’m not only a dickgarage, I’m cheap, too!
:rolleyes:
This is so batshit off the wall; I can’t even begin to get mad at this.
I LOL’d.
Okay. In light of the fact that the OP obviously isn’t going to pursue filing a complaint against the officer in question, I’m going to go ahead and call at least some measure of bullshit on his tale. At the very least, there must be more to the story than he’s telling us about.
That is all.
I’ve reads through three pages of this, and there are two questions lingering that have not been addressed…that I could spot. How did the OP get back to work (was the cop sitting in the parking lot waiting, did he decide not to drink the beer, etc) and where do you work that allows you to drink during the day? If I came back from lunch smelling like beer, I’d probably get asked to leave.
This was answered by the OP. He threw the beer in the garbage without drinking it.
Drinking a beer with lunch ≠ coming back to work drunk and smelling like beer.
Are you serious? That’s what you envisioned?
Wow. Ever slightly out of touch with reality.
When I worked across the street from Tully’s, the supers go went with the salesmen for beers all the time. Even when they didn’t go, they knew that the guys were going right across the street to Tully’s for burgers and beers. Why do folks even doubt stories like this? In a huge, varied, wide free country, where private businesses thrive, you honestly have trouble imagining that things may be done differently at some places of business than others?
And he explained in the OP that he poured the beer out.
Was the cop drunk?
Go to the financial section of a major city, and look at what the very well dressed people are drinking at power lunches.
Well, I did see him getting into his squad car with this.
No, it has nothing to do with it. One is drunk driving; the other is not wearing a fucking seatbelt.
You’re saying that no one can have “just one” beer, and that anyone who claims to have had “just one” beer is lying. Congratulations–you’ve just labeled everyone who’s ever had anything containing alcohol as an alcoholic.
You know what else would cut down on drunk driving accidents? Outlawing cars. If all cars were outlawed, we’d cut our car-accident-death-rate down to zero. Overnight! So why do you think thousands upon thousands of people have to die every year just so that *you *can have the convenience of driving your own car?
You know, having sex with your girlfriend may be enough for you today, but tomorrow you’re out raping tweens and what was consensual sex is now rape.
See, I can make retarded slippery slope arguments, too!
That’s 'cause you’re a fucking retard. Thanks for proving to everyone else that your position is ***firmly ***based in blind, unreasoned panic, though. Tell me again why you’re posting on a site dedicated to “fighting ignorance”?
Fact: Any time I’ve seen a fast-food chain establishment selling beer, it’s been 12-oz. bottles.