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Originally Posted by stevej37

I remember they tried years back hooking up a breathalyzer to the ignition of an offenders car.

Never heard if that worked....a person could just get a friend to blow into it to get the car started.

I'm sure that there are folks that get around it that way, but I think the repercussions if you're caught are considerable.

Originally Posted by oldE

.11 eh? No wonder his speech was slurred.
When my friend went through RCMP school in Regina, one of the lessons involved putting the trainees in a room with alcohol of their choice and a breathalyzer. My friend was amazed how many drinks it took to get him to .08, the legal limit in most of Canada. He said he considered himself impared long before he got to .08. My friend was not a big man.

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Les

Originally Posted by stevej37

Michigan is .08 also.
I wonder if I would pass it after 2-3 beers.

Per everything that I've ever seen, more than 2 is enough to get most men of an avg size to blow the limit. I'm pretty sure the .08 limit is pretty universal, at least in the US. < edit > just checked and confirmed "All 50 states and the District of Columbia have per se laws defining it as a crime to drive with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at or above a proscribed level, 0.08 percent."

This chart seems to support the "more than 2 drinks" theory. I'm sure there are lots of factors that change things, time it takes, how full your stomach is, even individual body function, etc...


It seems that .08% is not uncommon, and about the max. Lots of countries have lower limits, 0.05%, 0.03%, 0.02% and several 0 tolerance places with a 0% limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_law_by_country