Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Driver Has 18 Times Legal Alcohol Limit

Lithuanian police were so astonished by a breath test that registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their device must be broken. It wasn't.

Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per litre of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices after he was pulled over Saturday for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius.

Lithuania's legal limit is 0.4 grams per litre.

"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record. He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned."

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