Drink responsibly......

[mzteris]

Beer Baron Loses License After DUI Arrest
From Associated Press
July 15, 2006 11:39 AM EDT
DENVER - Beer baron Peter Coors' driver's license has been revoked after his arrest for drunken driving following a wedding celebration. Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled Friday that Coors did not stop at a stop sign and was driving impaired on May 28. Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving the wedding, the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. He faces a July 20 arraignment and has 30 days to appeal the revocation.

"I made a mistake. I should have planned ahead for a ride," Coors said in a statement. "For years, I've advocated the responsible use of our company's products."

. . . In one breath test, he registered a blood alcohol level of 0.073 percent. In a second, 20 minutes later, he registered 0.088. The legal limit in Colorado is 0.05 percent.

[ClusterFreak]

1. Letterman and Leno will be chewing on this a while!! n/t

:beer: :toast: ....no pun intended.

...yeah, right:evilgrin:

[BlueEyedSon]

2. and olbermann & stewart?

[ClusterFreak]

4. No doubt!

[RB TexLa]

3. DWI is at .05 now?

I thought .10 was the legal limit?

[mzteris]

7. varies by state and/or

municipality.....

[RB TexLa]

8. I know but .05 is ridiculously low

[MADem]

16. .08 most places.....NT

[niyad]

5. he drank A beer 30 minutes before he was stopped? I know the legal

limit is low here in CO, but does this sound the tiniest bit odd? I wonder if it was his own beer he was drinking, as many serious beer drinkers think the stuff is bilge water.

[mzteris]

9. *A* beer?

I don't think so.

[charlie]

10. Nope

Using this BAC calculator, 175lbs weight, 4% alcohol content -- it takes 3 beers 1/2 hour prior to hit .05, 4 beers to break .07.

Edit: Oops. Using this BAC calculator...

http://www.coolnurse.com/alcohol_calculator.htm

[mzteris]

13. I couldn't remember the formula

I used to teach TIPS classes for an Anheuser-Busch distributor.

TIPS - Training Intervertion Procedures for Servers (of alcohol).

Things like weight, physical condition, what you've had to eat, medications, how fast you drink, what you drink, your individual metabolism, etc - all influence your own BAC.

[charlie]

14. Right-o

Since ol' Pete isn't an anorexic Japanese dwarf, it's pretty certain he's fudging how many Colorado Koolaids he slammed :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. We used to call it Rocky Mountain Pisswater

and there's no way he blew a .08 on one beer.

[mzteris]

17. He only had one beer!

It was the bottle of champagne and the Jägermeister shots that done him in.

:rofl:

[guinivere]

6. The guy has millions but couldn't get a limo ride home?

[mzteris]

11. found this clarification of CO law

Colorado law has since changed to say that a driver with a blood-alcohol content of between 0.05
percent and 0.07 percent is presumed to be impaired. A driver with a BAC of 0.08 percent or greater is presumed to be driving under the influence.




As an added bonus - I ran across this..... :)

Bruce Benson, a Republican leader who disclosed during his bid for governor in the 1990s that he was
stopped twice for drunken driving, said he learned of Coors' arrest on Thursday.

[El Supremo]

12. You can talk all about how drunk he was...

and the hypocrisy of his ads, but the real story is how it stayed out of the news for 6 1/2 weeks. Money hushes.

[grannylib]

18. That's the biggest part of the story...how long it took to come out.

Ah well. The perks of a big bank account...covers a multitude of sins. For a while, anyway.

[RB TexLa]

19. I wouldn't think it's that big of a news story

maybe if he had killed someone or caused some large accident.