Comments on: Alcoholics and Breathalyzers

By: koivisto

koivisto — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:17 +0000

Sounds like I am screwed too. I smoke and drink alot. I enjoy it. I have my wife or friends drive if I have even one beer. After my DUI, and I won the case, I’ll never give the bastar** another shot at me. The cop had his mind made up the instant I was pulled over, first words were “how many have you had tonight”. I was supposedly weaving, (not true), but then I had no rights anyway, did I?

By: joe

joe — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:16:36 +0000

Breathalyzer “technology” is very inaccurate, not taking into account a person’s body weight, physical makeup and sometimes not even accurately taking a person’s blood-alcohol content. Yet, courts continue to allow this inaccurate science to put countless persons in jail.

By: donleedon

donleedon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:37:19 +0000

This is a very interesting story to me, as I am probably an alcoholic. The proper term would be a beeraholic as I don’t even like to get drunk, but I have at least 3 to 6 beers a day. I also smoke cigarettes, at least a pack a day. I didn’t mention in an earlier post about my case any of this as I didn’t know about such, but the ‘normal’ equation of how many beers I had before driving in comparison to what my breathalyser reading did not add up unless I my last beer while I was driving (which was not the case, it had been a few hours prior). I have since found some online calculators that are both conservative and liberal on the amount of ‘alcohol loss’ per hour and according to both, my BAC should have been about 0.06 to 0.04 respectively due to the amount of beers that I had and time that occurred in consuming those beers. My optional blood alcohol test showed higher than the ’scientific’ amount of alcohol that should have been present in my system. I wonder if acetaldehyde is present in blood as well as in the breath. It makes sense that it would be. I also wonder since it took 3 weeks to get my blood test back if it didn’t sit around and ferment because of my blood sugar until it waited to get tested. None of the math adds up in my case according to the ’standards’ of blood alcohol chemistry and the tests that were run. Unfortunately, the courts have no place for science when it comes to DWIs.