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Finished drinking vodka at 5am. Can I drive now?

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  • #302
    Yester
    Registered Users Posts: 1,499 ✭✭✭Yester


    sundodger5 wrote: »
    Just to put some science into the original question.
    One on mine was out last night. Home at 4.15am she reckons 10 drinks.
    Up since 11am and has eaten this morning.
    At 2pm i got the breathalyser out just to see.
    She blew a .70 BAC. Legal limit is .50 BAC afaik.
    Everyone pcocesses alcohol at different rates but this may give people an idea as to how long you may have to wait based on a real life example.

    Interesting. Do you know what she was drinking and what time she started?


  • #303
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sundodger5 wrote: »
    Just to put some science into the original question.
    One on mine was out last night. Home at 4.15am she reckons 10 drinks.
    Up since 11am and has eaten this morning.
    At 2pm i got the breathalyser out just to see.
    She blew a .70 BAC. Legal limit is .50 BAC afaik.
    Everyone pcocesses alcohol at different rates but this may give people an idea as to how long you may have to wait based on a real life example.

    Is the legal limit not zero now since Herr Ross had his way?


  • #304
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,244 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Is the legal limit not zero now since Herr Ross had his way?

    No.
    Level hasn't changed since 2011


  • #305
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    sundodger5 wrote: »
    Just to put some science into the original question.
    One on mine was out last night. Home at 4.15am she reckons 10 drinks.
    Up since 11am and has eaten this morning.
    At 2pm i got the breathalyser out just to see.
    She blew a .70 BAC. Legal limit is .50 BAC afaik.
    Everyone pcocesses alcohol at different rates but this may give people an idea as to how long you may have to wait based on a real life example.
    Eating the morning after is largely irrelevant.


  • #306
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,909 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    sundodger5 wrote: »
    Just to put some science into the original question.
    One on mine was out last night. Home at 4.15am she reckons 10 drinks.
    Up since 11am and has eaten this morning.
    At 2pm i got the breathalyser out just to see.
    She blew a .70 BAC. Legal limit is .50 BAC afaik.
    Everyone pcocesses alcohol at different rates but this may give people an idea as to how long you may have to wait based on a real life example.

    '10 drinks' doesnt mean a a thing unless you specify what they were, 10 pints, 10 shorts, 10 long necks???


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  • #307
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,538 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    Pauliedragon wrote: »
    Eating the morning after is largely irrelevant.

    Eating before sleep is more effective ?


  • #308
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Eating before sleep is more effective ?
    Not really. Eating before you start drinking is important. The body can't process food and booze at the same time. Eating after a heap of drink and going to sleep actually slows down the ability to drive cause it can move the alcohol to the side whilst it deals with the food so it takes longer to process alcohol therefore BAC is higher for longer.


  • #309
    sundodger5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭sundodger5


    Yester wrote: »
    Interesting. Do you know what she was drinking and what time she started?

    She left the house around 9pm, so i assume first drink at 9.30 ish.
    Drinks pink Gin usually.
    Last drink would have been in nightclub so stopped drinking around 3am.
    Times are rough estimates.


  • #310
    Higgins5473
    Registered Users Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭Higgins5473


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    No.
    Level hasn't changed since 2011

    he was trying to reduce it to almost nothing.

    the man is an alcoholic that now has a vendetta against alcohol. he is the wrong person to be in charge of transport (or anything but specifically road and alcohol related matters). there is no f*cking doubt this cretin drank and drove for a long period of his life.


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