August 2008 and Drunken Murderess Laura Varker has avoided arrest

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/25/20080625crash0
625.html
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-01-24/news/the-wrong-driver/
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-05-01/news/prosecutors-
suggest-charges-for-other-driver-in-the-bryant-wilkerson-case/

Even an hour after the accident, Varker's blood-alcohol level
was 0.09, over the legal limit for adults. And, as an underage
driver, she was in violation of the law by having any amount of
alcohol in her system.
One of Varker's girlfriends, 15-year-old Felicia Edwards, didn't
drink a drop. But it was Edwards who died when Varker's Yukon
Denali hit another car and flipped over and over like a
tumbleweed before coming to a horrifying stop on the Bush
Highway north of Mesa. Edwards was thrown from the SUV and
pronounced dead at the scene.

Laura Varker has not been charged with any crime.

Authorities say 17-year-old Laura Varker had been drinking when
she was involved in an accident that left another teenage girl
dead.

They say Varker had past alcohol offenses, used a fake ID to buy
beer on the day of the crash and lied to deputies afterward.

They also say Varker was driving her mother's SUV on a Salt
River tubing trip when she crossed a double yellow line, hit a
car making a U-turn and flipped three times.
But Varker has never been charged in the May 2007 death, and her
attorneys insist she did not cause the accident. Until last
month, when the case was transferred to North Mesa Justice Court
on five misdemeanor charges, Varker had not been charged with
any crimes at all.

Instead, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office described Varker
as a "victim" or "witness" in the case and charged the driver of
the car she hit with nine felonies, including manslaughter and
leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

 

Another flag: the corrected reading was 0.079 to 0.084. The 0.092 was a

The LD50 (median lethal dose) of alcohol is .038%. Anyone way above
that is lucky if she survives at all.

 

I rather think you are out by a factor of 10.

 

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Good thing too.

Otherwise I could be charged with driving above the lethal limit, not
the legal
limit.

 

++ I've walked (stumbled) around above the lethal limit, c. 1984-5...

P

 

"All good men drink too much." Who said it??

 

All of us.

And (allegedly) Ernest Hemingway.

 

Right. At least he wrote it. Can't remember if it was Cannery Row or
For Whom the Bell Tolls or neither.

 

Hemingway wrote "All good men drink too much" in Cannery Row?
Maybe it was in a copy he borrowed from the public library.

 

Naa - Steinbeck loaned him the manuscript... ;o)

 

And what are *you* drinking?

;o)

Actually, I think it's a myth.

But I may be wrong - it's exactly the kind of naive statement he might
have made while pished, as far as I can see.

The additional fact, that most of the bad men drink too much too,
being the missed point in this case...

 

Sorry, my bad....getting my authors mixed up...too much booze.

I think Steinbeck's 'doc' drank a beer shake. Hope I remembered this
much right.
So was it For Whom the Bell Tolls?

Next I'll be attributing it to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Gimme another.

 

Cheers!!

 

My favorite Devil's Dictionary definitions:

CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and
wise as a man's head.

CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be
kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government
authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

PRINCIPLE, n. A thing which too many people confound with interest.

Joe Ramirez

 

Why not?

This will depend. Depending on how underaged she was, and how
physically developed she was, it may well have had a far greater (and
as a result more dangerous) effect on her than it would have at the
point where it was legal for her to consume it. I'm not even going to
touch on responsibility-related aspects.

Though a bad joke, it has some ring of truth, as one reason why the
drunk participants of a crash sometimes survive or suffer less than
their sober companions is that the alcohol relaxes their bodies, in
which state they can survive a far greater impact than a sober person
whose natural instinct is to tense up.

 

Love - A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Marriage - The state or condition of a community consisting of a
master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Joe Ramirez

It is a little known fact, one brought to my attention by a Telegraph
cryptic crossword some years ago, that "Presbyterians" is an anagram of
"Britney Spears".

Make of that what you will.