There is an interesting case out of Iowa City where Levi B. Carter, 28, has been charged with drunk driving. Nothing uncommon there. However, Carter was arrested at his home after a passenger called police following a crash into a street sign. He was found at home with a blood alcohol content nearly six times the legal limit.
When police arrived and say that they found Carter in his basement talking to “people that were not there” and could barely stand. The reports indicate a delay of a couple hours which raises the question of where he became so intoxicated. However, the defense can be countered by the eyewitness testimony of his own passenger.
Carter registered off the scale of the machine. He below a .467 per cent before it simply read ‘HI’ as unmeasurable. A blood alcohol level of 0.4 and above is viewed as presenting a serious risk to someone’s life with the possibility of unconsciousness and death.
Source: Press Citizen
“I sure hope they have medical on stand by or took him to a hospital.”
Naa, they just put him to bed, set his hand in a warm pan of water, stretched cellophane over the toilet and left giggling.
That boy got his drink on.
Dredd, That was an interesting post @ your site. The book I’m referencing is The Sports Gene by David Epstein. If you’re into sports it’s fascinating. And, Epstein doesn’t just focus on mainstream US sports, there are many obscure sports and the genetics required for excellence. He also refers to Outliers and the 10,000 hours for mastery philosophy.
The first thing holy rollers are accused of is being drunk beyond the pale:
(Acts 2). Whatever happend to wild life?
Holy Rollers don’t get no respect.
nick spinelli
For a young man to have such genetic tolerance for alcohol does not bode well for his future, or for the future of some poor Hawkeye who might encounter him on a country road some night in a car.
I’m reading a book about the “athlete gene.” One genetic gift required to be a great hitter is incredible eyesight. The average MLB hitter has 20/11 vision. The best ever recorded vision, and what is believed to be the limit of human eye structure capabilities, are a few people w/ 20/8 vision. It is therefore not surprising, the greatest hitter of all time, Ted Williams, had 20/8 vision. I’m sure that cam in handy being a Marine pilot in WW2 and Korea. We are sometimes blessed w/ superior genetics. This Hawkeye is cursed w/ his.
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Pop culture genetics (Weekend Rebel Science Excursion – 26).
Gotta luv it.
Otteray Scribe
… He should have been throwing up his toenails.
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Miracles do happen.
Help, I need a professional w/ just average eyesight to recover a comment made to Gene. Thanks for your anticipated assistance.
Gene, Guys like Williams can see the printing on the ball. They can see the seams and how they rotate. One configuration, means 2 seam fastball, another 4 seamer, another, slider, etc. The Dodgers hired an eye specialists to do testing on their entire organizations eyes about 20 years ago. This doc made predictions of success based solely on his testing, he was not a baseball guy. He picked out, prior to their seasons, 2 Rookies of the Years. But, his biggest coup was picking Mike Piazza as going to be a star. Piazza was a 46th round pick based solely on the fact that Piazza’s old man and Lasorda were gumba’s. This was before Piazza had played a MLB game.
Further testing was even more interesting. They discovered, if you took away the red seams in a baseball, a hitters ability, even w/ Williams like eyesight, dropped dramatically. Being able to see the rotation via the seams, learning what those subtle differences meant, was what made them great hitters. They could still hit a seamless baseball much better than us mere mortals, but it leveled the playing field, as it were. A person w/ average eyesight had little diminution in ability to hit a baseball sans red seams; an MLB hitter had a big deficit in production. Interesting stuff!
Regarding Ted Williams’ eyesight. When I was in junior high school, in Boston about 1949, I recall seeing a film about his eyes, where the eyeball would contract during a pitch so he could maintain focus. That, together with the great eye-hand coordination, could explain why he could probably follow the ball right up to contact with the bat.
He most probably didn’t take the Antabuse. I was a Vista volunteer @ a Fed BOP and had to take UA’s give out meds[including Antabuse]. It should come as no surprise to a pro that addicts, convicts, etc. are incredibly crafty in deception. The tolerance thing is amazing. I worked w/ a woman in KC who was very petite. She did not have a drinking problem but we would go out for drinks after work on Friday sometimes. This woman drank bourbon and water for hours. I never counted them, but I’m sure she drank 10-12 in 3 hours. I would have taken a ride from her in a heartbeat if I needed it. I knew this woman well. We would sometimes give her sobriety physical and mental tests. She aced all of them.
It is cold in Iowa this time of year
When I was on the staff of a (now closed) private psychiatric hospital, a local First Responder was sent to us on the city EAP for us to try and dry him out and treat his alcohol problem. He was an excellent employee who had saved the lives of a number of people, but liked to hang out with his good friends Jim Beam and Jack Daniels. At any rate, he did well in the treatment program, and agreed to be put on a trial of Antabuse (Disulfiram). That is a drug which makes one horribly ill if one drinks when taking it. Disulfiram is truly incompatible with ETOH.
He did well, and halfway through his 28 day treatment program, he wanted a pass to attend some formal function. A reception for a visiting dignitary at his workplace, IIRC. Upon his return, he looked fine, but there were standing orders for anyone in the program to take a blood test after being out on a pass. He looked as sober as a Baptist Deacon, but the nurse drew a blood sample and sent it to the lab. His blood alcohol was well above .4, almost .5. The doctor on call was screaming into the phone, “That’s almost incompatible with life!” The guy was discharged from the program shortly after that for non-compliance.
Some people can hold their booze better than others, but how he managed to drink that much on top of a full therapeutic level of Disulfiram remained a mystery to the entire staff. He should have been throwing up his toenails.
They can grow tall corn in Iowa but I hope they are not dumb enough to prosecute this guy for drunk driving based on a test taken at his home after he got away from the scene.
The test means absolutely nothing. He was entitled to drink once he quit driving. He was at home already. The high reading from breath analyzers, which are not accurate, is because he had just drank some straight moonshine. Jeso. Law blog needs to do better on this one.
For a young man to have such genetic tolerance for alcohol does not bode well for his future, or for the future of some poor Hawkeye who might encounter him on a country road some night in a car.
I’m reading a book about the “athlete gene.” One genetic gift required to be a great hitter is incredible eyesight. The average MLB hitter has 20/11 vision. The best ever recorded vision, and what is believed to be the limit of human eye structure capabilities, are a few people w/ 20/8 vision. It is therefore not surprising, the greatest hitter of all time, Ted Williams, had 20/8 vision. I’m sure that cam in handy being a Marine pilot in WW2 and Korea. We are sometimes blessed w/ superior genetics. This Hawkeye is cursed w/ his.
“When police arrived and say that they found Carter in his basement talking to “people that were not there” and could barely stand.” – JT
Perhaps he had been to a holy-roller meeting:
(Wikipedia, “Holy Roller”). They advocate that “the blood of Jesus” is quite intoxicating.
Probably why the machine could not read the vibe?
I sure hope they have medical on stand by or took him to a hospital.
This will prove to be an interesting case…. I’m not sure they can convict for drunk driving…. When did he drink to this limit…. Before he drove or after….