Breathalyser Readings...

[SAM_R]

Just been watching a Police program on the TV... (Drunk driver seem to be the offence of choice these days) so they had lots of breath testing going on.

One guy that was driving had a reading of 2.07! That is just crazy!

I breathalyse people every week for work (mainly in the mornings) although I have taken my equipment on nights out and the results dont really go over 1.80 but then we cant walk / talk let alone drive!!!

What are the higest readings people have come across?


Oh sad ending to the program, 21 year old pissed, messing about by a river outside a club, fell in and couldnt swim. Fireman pulled him out after 9mins. too late though

[Chrispy Porker]

207 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millitres of breath.
The limit is 35.
Have you been drinking?

[vonhosen]

318

[SAM_R]

Chrispy Porker said:

207 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millitres of breath.
The limit is 35.
Have you been drinking?

Thats the reading he got on the programme...

[SAM_R]

vonhosen said:

318

From a driver???

Thats shocking, suprised they would still be conscious!

[Chrispy Porker]

SAM_R said:

Chrispy Porker said:

207 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millitres of breath.
The limit is 35.
Have you been drinking?

Thats the reading he got on the programme...

Quite
I was clarifying for the OP

[Ravell]

Just for reference, 78,506,000 micrograms (79grams) per 100 ml would mean the subject was 'breathing' 100% liquid alcohol.

[freedman]

And for some reason the programme stated he was charged with failing to provide a sample (which he clearly did)

12 month ban and £60.00 fine (yes £60.00)

Another D Driver crashed through the front wall of someones house totally demolishing it and rendering the property unsafe

20 month ban and £120.00 fine........

Good job they werent speeding


And the guy who fell in the lock had been in far longer than 9 minutes, that was just how long it took the FB to find him once they arrived, the OB arrived earlier but wouldnt go in the water, and two MOPs had already been in looking for him

Edited by freedman on Thursday 6th September 07:10

[SAM_R]

freedman said:

And for some reason the programme stated he was charged with failing to provide a sample (which he clearly did)


And the guy who fell in the lock had been in far longer than 9 minutes, that was just how long it took the FB to find him once they arrived, the OB arrived earlier but wouldnt go in the water, and two MOPs had already been in looking for him

Edited by freedman on Thursday 6th September 07:10

I *think* you have to provide 2 samples within 5 minutes?

Oh a bit misleading that, he had no chance then!

[mouseymousey]

freedman said:

And the guy who fell in the lock had been in far longer than 9 minutes, that was just how long it took the FB to find him once they arrived, the OB arrived earlier but wouldnt go in the water, and two MOPs had already been in looking for him

Edited by freedman on Thursday 6th September 07:10

What does OB stand for?

[nutcase]

Old Bill?

[steventoon]

318 ? I don't think so, he'd be dead from the alcohol or at least in hospital. My records 176 ugs.

[SAM_R]

steventoon said:

318 ? I don't think so, he'd be dead from the alcohol or at least in hospital. My records 176 ugs.

Thats what I what have thought. Any more info Von?

[SirSimon]

SAM_R said:

Just been watching a Police program on the TV... (Drunk driver seem to be the offence of choice these days) so they had lots of breath testing going on.

One guy that was driving had a reading of 2.07! That is just crazy!

I breathalyse people every week for work (mainly in the mornings) although I have taken my equipment on nights out and the results dont really go over 1.80 but then we cant walk / talk let alone drive!!!

What are the higest readings people have come across?


Oh sad ending to the program, 21 year old pissed, messing about by a river outside a club, fell in and couldnt swim. Fireman pulled him out after 9mins. too late though

This was a shame about the young man, could'nt blieve it when I was watching it, then all of a sudden the guy got pulled up, white in the face, not good.

[bigandclever]

SAM_R said:

freedman said:

And for some reason the programme stated he was charged with failing to provide a sample (which he clearly did)

Edited by freedman on Thursday 6th September 07:10

I *think* you have to provide 2 samples within 5 minutes?

On the program they showed him blow 207 then 'feel a bit sick', a bit of 'ooh, I'm breathless' and so on. He must have pissed around for a while because the narrator then said that because he didn't provide the second breath sample within 3 minutes of the first, then he could only be charged with failure to provide a sample, and as such the courts wouldn't ever know that he was well over the limit.

[becca_viola]

SAM_R said:

freedman said:

And for some reason the programme stated he was charged with failing to provide a sample (which he clearly did)


And the guy who fell in the lock had been in far longer than 9 minutes, that was just how long it took the FB to find him once they arrived, the OB arrived earlier but wouldnt go in the water, and two MOPs had already been in looking for him

Edited by freedman on Thursday 6th September 07:10

I *think* you have to provide 2 samples within 5 minutes?

Oh a bit misleading that, he had no chance then!

As they said if the water's cold enough there can be a chance - basically if you get hypothermic (cold) before you get hypoxic (suffocate/drown) then things can shut down sufficiently for it to be possible to get it going again once he's out the water.

He was blue when they got him out - looked VERY dead.

You can't send an ordinary BiB into the water after a punter, chances are Trumpton would end up fishing for 2 people instead of 1... which is what I thought was gonna happen when the programme said that two members of the public had dived in after him too.

[Bing o]

freedman said:

And for some reason the programme stated he was charged with failing to provide a sample (which he clearly did)

12 month ban and £60.00 fine (yes £60.00)

Another D Driver crashed through the front wall of someones house totally demolishing it and rendering the property unsafe

20 month ban and £120.00 fine........

Good job they werent speeding

I really like Traffic Cops - it's a good programme.

Until the final 2 minutes

When you find out that the combined fine for two piss heads - one so drunk he'd passed out in his car in the middle of the road, and another so pissed he nearly killed a man asleep in his flat when his car left a straight residential road with enough force to punch an exterior wall across the living room and into the guys bedroom - end up with a combined fine of £70 LESS than what I picked up for my speeding offence.

It's a joke.

Except I ain't larfing.

[Chrispy Porker]

bigandclever said:

SAM_R said:

freedman said:

And for some reason the programme stated he was charged with failing to provide a sample (which he clearly did)

Edited by freedman on Thursday 6th September 07:10

I *think* you have to provide 2 samples within 5 minutes?

On the program they showed him blow 207 then 'feel a bit sick', a bit of 'ooh, I'm breathless' and so on. He must have pissed around for a while because the narrator then said that because he didn't provide the second breath sample within 3 minutes of the first, then he could only be charged with failure to provide a sample, and as such the courts wouldn't ever know that he was well over the limit.

Normally the fact that he blew 207 or whatever would be in the file, in case he went not guilty.
There would also be a copy of his custody record showing how long he was detained under S.10 ( how long he took before he could pass a breath test) a sure sign of how drunk he was.

I assume he pleaded guilty to a refusal, and knew perfectly well what he was doing when he failed to provide. He may have been drunk, but he wasn't that stupid was he?

[Get Karter]

Bing o said:

I really like Traffic Cops - it's a good programme.

Until the final 2 minutes

I totally agree. It defies common sense how light the punishments for some serious motoring offences are.
Potential killers who obviously don't give a flying fox about the consequences of their actions, getting short bans and paltry fines.

[Bing o]

I won't post on this topic again as my urine is simmering like it was last night....