Tennessee Titans QB Steve McNair, the one many gushed over in 2002 for his toughness and leadership, was arrested for DUI (mugshot, right) with a .18 blood-alcohol level. That's pretty high. You don't see many BAC levels higher than that. So we're not talking a few drinks, where one might "feel OK to drive."
There are a number of BAC calculators online, and the variance of them prevents me from nailing the exact amount McNair had to drink, but it seems that a 229-pound man like McNair needs to have at least 10 drinks to reach a BAC level of .18.
Average burnoff of BAC due to metabolism is, on average, roughly .02 per hour. (Don't fool yourself into thinking that six beers in three hours is the same as two beers in one hour. It's not. One will get a 180-pound man arrested, the other won't.)
McNair would have had to sit on a curb for five hours without drinking in order to get down to .08. Or he could have called for a cab in that time.
McNair has since apologized.
Drive safely this holiday weekend. Can't think of anything more disturbing than having a life cut short by a drunk driver. In 1997, it happened every 30 minutes. In 2001, 17,448 people were killed, accounting for 41 percent of all U.S. traffic deaths.
Steve I know that sometime we gets a little pressure. Then we need somthing to just relax.But we do thank the lord for every mind and strength.Just be more careful.
Posted by jadice moore at August 14, 2003 2:55 PM