North Dakota Woman sets US Blood Alcohol Record

Marguerite Engle was arrested Dec. 1 in Rapid City with a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, almost nine times South Dakota's legal limit of .08 percent, and almost twice the .40 level normally considered dangerous.

About the same time, an unnamed 21 year old woman in Australia blew a blood alcohol level of 0.385, 19 times the permitted level and one of the highest levels ever recorded in that country. According to the story, "As a newly qualified driver her permitted limit was only 0.02."

A blood alcohol level of .55 is generally considered fatal, although a Bulgarian man blew a .914back in 2005, and survived.

I wonder what that hangover was like.