45 4 life wrote:USA1 wrote:Far as I know, this is the correct answer..
"Carrying" while drinking is not prohibited, but it is a criminal offense to carry while intoxicated.
This is what I have always understood, but this guy actually wrote on the dry erase board "0.0001 and the officer can take you down"
I know it's hyperbole, but that's stupid; you can have more alcohol than that in your blood without ever having a drink in your life. Studies show that
blood alcohol can get up to .0016 just from fermentation by bacteria in the gut. That's not to mention you can't measure that low without special laboratory techniques; a handheld machine is never going to be able to detect that.