On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
BCTV News' Lynn Colliar reports that B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell was well over the legal limit when he was pulled over for drunk driving last week. Campbell's reading on the police breathalyzer was 0.149% -- nearly twice the legal limit in British Columbia and in Hawaii, where the premier was vacationing when he was pulled over last week. The test at the police station was administered over an hour after Campbell was pulled over by Maui County police. The human body eliminates 0.015% of alcohol per hour; it stands to reason that Campbell had a blood alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit when he was pulled over.
This news, if true, further clouds Campbell's claim that he had only had three martinis and two or three glasses of wine before driving back home to the resort where he was staying. Today, the Globe and Mail ran a story where experts in pharmacology estimated that Campbell would have had to have had drunk at least 10 standard bar drinks during the evening (12 ounces beer, 5 ounces wine, or 1.5 ounces spirits) to have had a blood alcohol level of over 0.08. If, as BCTV has reported, Campbell had a blood-alcohol content of 0.149, then he would have had the equivalent of some 14 standard bar drinks over the course of the evening.
As many commentators have noted, Campbell's future will depend largely on how honest he was with the public when he admitted to drinking and driving. If he had more to drink than he had claimed, and if his blood alcohol content was as high as it has been reported, then the premier's troubles may just be beginning.
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