Honestly, I've never believed the majority of those statistics. I'm a normal sized male adult, and I can easily consume 3 beers in an hour without even going over the legal driving limit.
This has been thoroughly tested.
I consumed roughly 15 beers, along with what would be the equivalent of 5 shots of 80 proof, in just under two hours. Roughly 15 minutes after this, I got pulled over due to a faulty emergency brake.
I had empty containers in the bed of my truck, and an empty cooler in my passenger seat.
The sheriff put the two together, and I had to do a field sobriety. Obviously I failed, and I had to blow for my BAC. After all of this, I blew a .156.
According to your calculator, that's what I should have been at after two hours of drinking only 8 beers at my weight.

EDIT: Keep in mind, though, that I have an incredibly high metabolism. So much so that I have a hard time maintaining weight if I'm not working out on a regular schedule.
I'm not attesting to my ability to put them down, I'm simply saying that there are people who could do this.
That's not to say they wouldn't be in some pretty awful shape in the morning, but it can still be done.

This post was edited by Cambridge on Feb 7 2012 09:26pm

proof?

Well, being as I was charged with an O.V.I, I'm sure it's of public availability through an internet search.

"Honestly, I don't like being proved wrong."

Without actual evidence what we have here is conjecture. It's basically established science how much each individual drink would raise your BAC, now, granted, in order for it to completely finish it's job, you have to give it time to absorb.

Your BAC at that time was only .156, but would have rose steadily on the way home.

E: Or in this case, in the drunk tank. If they had tested you again in an hour, it would have been even higher.

This is why most people drive drunk to begin with. All the alcohol hasn't hit them yet, and often gets far worse as you are traveling home, which is what leads to fatalities.

Another way to look at it, how many times have you, or others you known, gotten smashed, and then sick once they got home? Eventually your body says "enough", and pukes it up. Yet just a half hour ago, you were fine, why is that?

It's not instantaneous ofc, if it were, no one would be able to drink more than a few drinks at a time without passing out.

This post was edited by apollo111969 on Feb 7 2012 09:31pm

name etc?

Zac1993

Also, it's hard to believe anyone drinks 23 drinks and actually has an accurate account of how many drinks they had. After a few, who is really keeping count? Never mind how impaired the mind become with regards to memory in that state. How many of you are counting your drinks if you're having a night out on the town? How many remember the events of a night if they are doing serious drinking sessions?

The only time I've ever counted was actually counting my wife's shots on her 30th birthday, since I was her chaperone.

This post was edited by apollo111969 on Feb 7 2012 09:34pm

People usually know how many drinks they pay for?