<p>Ran across this, and with my bias toward personal responsibility, I truly like this idea for college students......</p>
<p>Hey...quiltguru said ALL ideas were welcome, crazy or not!!! ;)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>That's a great item berurah if it's accurate.</p>
<p>Prime~</p>
<p>I thought of that also...was wondering if it could be calibrated with the ones the police have??</p>
<p>A bunch of kids have these.</p>
<p>On Fri., I talked to my son who was not able to come home for Thanksgiving (since he'll be home in a couple of weeks when the quarter ends) and he said someone in his dorm was taken to the hospital because he drank the equivalent of 18 shots of gin through a beer bong. Fortunately, this kid is okay. What is the point of a beer bong, anyway? (I guess I already know the answer to that . . .)</p>
<p>mstee~</p>
<p>ack. Thank goodness the kid is o.k....<em>sigh</em> Another tragedy averted....at least for now.</p>
<p>berurah, I love the gadget!! Unfortunately, I think college students might try to outdo one another to see who could record the highest number and still be standing. Sigh.</p>
<p>Quiltguru, it only measures from .00 to .12 BAC. That should be slightly more than DUI in most (if not all states). Not anywhere close to lethal alcohol poisoning. It's just to tell you that if you get pulled over you will probably lose you license.</p>
<p>Here are some alcohol detectors that read up to .4</p>
<p>A boy on son's dorm floor received one for Christmas last year. They discovered you could register a very high reading after using mouthwash for a couple minutes. I didn't hear about challenging the gadget with actual drinking (though like guiltguru, I'm sure someone(s) tried that) but did hear about comparisons of mouthwash brands.</p>
<p>They practice focusing their breaths through their noses. There are athletes who are experts in breathing that can register zero when they smell like a distillery. Of course they are so smart they can't figure out that a cop or any adult is not going to figure out something is not right when someone who reeks of alcohol and is obviously drunk is not registering on the breathalyzer. A supervised blood/urine will follow in cases like that.</p>
<p>Former frat members begin jail sentence Friday night</p>
<p>04:41 PM CDT on Friday, May 30, 2008</p>
<p>KVUE News </p>
<p>Two former University of Texas fraternity members head to a jail cell Friday night, for their hazing after an investigation into the death of fraternity pledge Tyler Cross. </p>
<p>Austin Sherrill and Will Evans were among four men sentenced for hazing and providing alcohol to minors in the fall semester of 2006 at UT. </p>
<p>None of the four were charged directly with Cross' death. Sherrill and Evans were sentenced to four days in jail. Their sentence begins at 7 p.m. Friday night. The other two are serving probation. </p>
<p>Tyler Cross died after he fell from a five-story balcony -- just after leaving a pledge event at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. He had a blood alcohol content of 0.19. </p>
<p>All four of the sentences are a first for Travis County -- intended to send a message to anyone who participates in hazing.</p>
<p>I wonder if the four days runs from Friday night to Monday morning - sounds like four days (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon) but is really only two full days with the three nights around them.</p>
<p>thanks midwestmom--read the first post and then today's so may be missing info--this is so sad--we need to teach our kids to tell someone, us, a teacher etc when this kind of hazing is known about. (sure kids know what particular frats are known for before personally being exposed) wonder what the university has done in terms of educating and protecting future students...</p>