Well I'm 38 and just got arrested for the first time.

[MartinBarre]

I'm pretty sure 3.5 beers in 4 hours would get you a criminal record in the UK if you were to drive after them.
Not commenting on whether that's right or wrong, just saying.

[guitarsjb]

i was gonna guess that you were arrested for beating the shit out of a drunk friend that peed on your passenger seat.

Hope you get everything sorted out.

[mr426]

Well I'm a bigger guy so less than 1 beer an hour should be fine.

[Musician78]

I'm pretty sure 3.5 beers in 4 hours would get you a criminal record in the UK if you were to drive after them.
Not commenting on whether that's right or wrong, just saying.

I think the average sized male burns the equivilent of about one beer per hour. So you should be ok. As you can see, this method is far from scientific, lol.

[Spivonious]

Well, if you had 2.5 of those beers in the last 20 minutes....

Anyway, sounds like the cops were bored. Arresting you for having the wrong tags? Remind me to stay out of Minnesota.

[Aso]

They could of really been dicks and had you committed for 72 hours to a rehab center for being drunk with no ride home. You don't even have to be over the legal limit. It's a something that Minnesota law allows them to do. Don't ask how I know this.

[mr426]

I had less than half a beer in the last hour I was at the bar.They must have been bored.The cop that arrested me was the only cop I saw at the jail and I was the only other person I saw there as well. It could have been worse is what I was thinking as well, but because I was not drunk and was well behaved I think I got out quick. Now tomorrow I have to go get my car and then sometime soon it will be court time. Then I will see how screwed I really will be...

[Jason1212]

The guy that got me was a new cop and real young. He stopped me for riding against the flow of traffic (there were no cars but his on the road). I was there for an hour and he actually brought someone else in while I was there. He was either bored or trying to fill the jail on his own.

[mr426]

Well it was the end of the month too...Must have been trying to fill that quota..HAHHA...This was a small town too south of Minneapolis.

[Rsmacker]

I think the average sized male burns the equivilent of about one beer per hour. So you should be ok. As you can see, this method is far from scientific, lol.

Only if you are drinking HomoBabychamMeister Beer. The average human male processes 1 unit of alcohol per hour, ie. 10 ml, not 1 beer.

I don't know how many units of alcohol in the blood counts as a fail over there, but if you are a fat bastard bloke with a full stomach, I'd say you could drink oooh, 15 pints of your average American pisswater shandy ricebeer (ie. Butt-wiper) before being close to counting as over the limit.

The trick is to fall out of the bar, stagger to your car, drop the keys a few times, then career out of the carpark with no lights. Let the Filth chase you for a while then pull over. Try to get out of car without removing seatbelt. Start dancing to the flashing police car lights, just like you have reached the next bar.
When they finally get your attention and ask if you've been drinking:
"Whassamatter cunt-stubble. I have only had........erm.....I dunno, I'm too pissed to remember"
They will nick you and take you for an intoximeter test at the station, where you will show zero alcohol in the blood.
When they question you about your behaviour, why you appeared to be pissed as a rat, wink and tell them you were the decoy.

[fr0sty]

I got a paid volunteer day off work (twice) to go to our local police station and drink free alcohol for two hours, then go the rounds in the parking lot with officers to field sobriety training. There were actually about 10 of us.

I weighed around 145. The first time, the legal limit was .10. I had to drink nine mixed drinks in two hours to hit that limit. After two hours, I blew a .10 on the nose.

The second time through the legal limit was .08 I think the number of drinks I had to have was around 7 in two hours.

They also tested us 1/2 way through the drinking and again after. I felt pretty buzzed at .04 and would not consider driving at that level (just by how drunk I felt). I am not a partyer, but do drink 3-5 days a week (usually 1-4 glasses of wine after work, during dinner and maybe some more after)

Only if you are drinking HomoBabychamMeister Beer. The average human male processes 1 unit of alcohol per hour, ie. 10 ml, not 1 beer.

I don't know how many units of alcohol in the blood counts as a fail over there, but if you are a fat bastard bloke with a full stomach, I'd say you could drink oooh, 15 pints of your average American pisswater shandy ricebeer (ie. Butt-wiper) before being close to counting as over the limit.

The trick is to fall out of the bar, stagger to your car, drop the keys a few times, then career out of the carpark with no lights. Let the Filth chase you for a while then pull over. Try to get out of car without removing seatbelt. Start dancing to the flashing police car lights, just like you have reached the next bar.
When they finally get your attention and ask if you've been drinking:
"Whassamatter cunt-stubble. I have only had........erm.....I dunno, I'm too pissed to remember"
They will nick you and take you for an intoximeter test at the station, where you will show zero alcohol in the blood.
When they question you about your behaviour, why you appeared to be pissed as a rat, wink and tell them you were the decoy.

[Cygnus X1]

Only if you are drinking HomoBabychamMeister Beer. The average human male processes 1 unit of alcohol per hour, ie. 10 ml, not 1 beer.

I don't know how many units of alcohol in the blood counts as a fail over there, but if you are a fat bastard bloke with a full stomach, I'd say you could drink oooh, 15 pints of your average American pisswater shandy ricebeer (ie. Butt-wiper) before being close to counting as over the limit.

Another quotable quote from a brother across the pond!

Now translate that to beersickles.

I mean, US ounces.
10ml=0.33 ounces.
Alchohol that is.
Assuming 200 proof, 100%???

My homebrew runs about 5% ABV (whatever, a bit at the rate that a Bass Pale Ale is around here, 4.7 ABV...IIRC).

So you're saying I could wash down 5 an hour before I hit a scale?
I won't drive after drinking ONE.
But I'm sure I could navigate safely with 3/hour. But that would be tops, and I still won't do it.

[Rsmacker]

Fucked if I know, I'm a piss artist not a scientist!

However, I don't even have one drink when I'm driving, then my only excuse for driving badly is that I am an idiot.

I'm thinking about applying at the local police station for one of those pissed twat training jobs like fr0sty. I guarantee them a real handful if they keep the ale flowing, brilliant training for the real world.

[chrisolson]

Good stuff... Minnesota cops (sheriffs especially) really enjoy pulling ANYONE over for ANY reason they can conjure after bar close.

I was coming back to Minneapolis from Buffalo on night at about 2:30 am. I had had a few beers that night and part of the reason it was so late was that I had quite drinking at 11:30 so that I would be a sober driver on the way home. I came up over a hill, and got lit up. When he pulled me over, he said I was doing 75mph in a 55mph zone - pure BS, because the vehicle I had at the time couldn't go that fast except on a steep downhill...

Anyway, he asked if I had anything to drink, to which I said yeah, but had quit a couple hours before. Of course since he had the 8 trillion candle-power light burning out my retinas, my eyes were watering. I had also been up since 5:00 that morning, so I was a bit tired, and my eyes were a bit bloodshot. I had to do the field sobriety test - which I could barely accomplish stone-cold sober in the middle of the day. You ever try to walk a straight line on a bad highway with a giant spotlight shining in your eyes? Lotsa fun. I had to blow him...errr...the meter, and came out at .05, so I was even considered sober in the People's Republic on MN.

He told me to have a good evening an get some sleep, no ticket, no warning, no nothing. I wasn't going 75mph - there's no way with the vehicle I had at that time, especially coming up to the top of a hill. I'm just glad it ended the way it did.

[SEEGERMANY]

I had a chick arrest me once. The cuffs she used were lined with fur. Does that count?