Beyond Drunk

She's only 21, but I think it is fair to say one young woman in Australia has a problem.

According to The Daily Telegraph the woman was stopped for drunken driving. Her blood alcohol level, according to police, was more than 19 times the legal limit. Try 0.385. That is one of the highest levels ever recorded. The legal limit for a driver as young as she is in Australia is .02. By the way, .55 is generally considered fatal. However, the highest recorded blood alcohol level recorded by a survivor is thought to have been set in 2005 by a Bulgarian man whose test showed 0.914.

Too Much of a Good Thing?

It is banned in 13 states. The folks behind Samuel Adams beer are releasing a beer with 27 percent alcohol. If that doesn't scare you off, maybe the $150 a bottle will. According to the AP Alabama and West Virginia recently passed laws to allow higher alcohol content in beer. Lawmakers in Iowa and Mississippi are considering similar legislation.

Surprisingly MADD isn't too upset. Chuck Hurley, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving said "Right now, we're reserving judgment." Basically they only want the stuff to be properly labeled and not marketed to kids. I think the $250 price tag took care of that.

New Alcohol Limits Placed on Race Fans

Spectators who are gearing up to watch the Bathurst 1000, a road race in Australia, will also be faced with a daily limit on how much alcohol they can drink. It's an effort on the part of the police to limit violence, which is thought to correlate with alcohol consumption.

The limit?

For beer drinkers: 24 cans per day per person, or 36 cans per day if drinking "lower strength beer."

For wine drinkers: 4 liters of wine per day per person.

Let's hope these new limits work...

(pictured below: 24 cans of beer)