{"id":23943,"date":"2008-01-02T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/01\/02\/a-new-dui-record-set-in-the-state-of-washington\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T10:00:01","slug":"a-new-dui-record-set-in-the-state-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080102-01\/?p=23943","title":{"rendered":"A new DUI record set in the state of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, a former Seattle police detective was arrested in early 2007 for driving with <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003672880_webalcohol19m.html\"> a state record high blood-alcohol level of 0.47 percent<\/a>. (The legal limit is 0.08 percent, most people black out at 0.35 percent, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_alcohol_content#Effects_at_different_levels\"> 0.40 percent is lethal for 50% of adults<\/a>.) She was subsequently <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003674033_drinking20m.html\"> arrested and held on $250,000 bail<\/a> (story contains other history of Ms. Jarrett). Bail was <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003678503_jarrett24e.html\"> increased to $300,000<\/a> a week later, with another hearing scheduled for May for&#8230; a separate DUI case. <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003723017_jarrett26e.html\"> At the May hearing, the initial attempt by the driver&#8217;s attorneys to release their client to a treatment center failed<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003734685_dige05m.html\"> a second attempt succeeded<\/a> (second story).\n And then that&#8217;s it. No more news I can find. I suspect we&#8217;ll never learn whether the treatment program was deemed a success.<\/p>\n<p> Just as that saga appears to be winding down, a new one appears to be starting up: In neighbor state Oregon, a person with multiple drunken driving convictions was discovered with <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004094566_webdui27m.html\"> a blood alcohol level of a stunning 0.55 percent<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, a former Seattle police detective was arrested in early 2007 for driving with a state record high blood-alcohol level of 0.47 percent. (The legal limit is 0.08 percent, most people black out at 0.35 percent, and 0.40 percent is lethal for 50% of adults.) She was subsequently arrested and held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In case you missed it, a former Seattle police detective was arrested in early 2007 for driving with a state record high blood-alcohol level of 0.47 percent. (The legal limit is 0.08 percent, most people black out at 0.35 percent, and 0.40 percent is lethal for 50% of adults.) She was subsequently arrested and held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}