True story, around this time last year…..
Through work I met a polish male who had drunk a litre of vodka, then jumped in his car, drove to the shop and bought two more, when he was stopped he was halfway down the second before he’d even got home (5 minute journey!) the third bottle still in the back seat. He walked unaided and talked happily as he got into our car and didn’t appear that drunk… He was almost 4 times over the limit….
I asked him if he was an alcoholic – he replied, “in England yes, back home in my country, no!”
The chap was genuinely a nice guy, even when I told him he he wasn’t allowed to drive in the uk without insurance….
I recently spoke to the designer of one of the approved breath test devices used in the uk, he said in the last 5 years he has had to recalibrate his line of machines as people were now regularly recording levels of alcohol in breath that previously would suggest the machine was faulty.
Scary times …..