WHO IS REALLY THE TRUE DRUNKARDS!!???

> Just downhill from our sacred Mahto Paha is Sturgis, SC.
> Apparently the wasiciu can't handle their firewater.
> Somebody should lock them up on a little piece of land where they won't
> bother anybody.
> Ya'll be safe driving and walking around there.
>
> Woman's blood alcohol content topples state records


> A Sturgis woman had a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, possibly a
> state record, when she was found earlier this month behind the wheel of
> a stolen vehicle parked on Interstate 90, according to Meade County
> State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal.>
>
A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered Marguerite Engle, 45,
> on Dec. 1 passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck reported
> stolen in Rapid City.
>
> Her blood-alcohol level was almost nine times South Dakota’s legal limit
> of .08 percent.
>
> Checks with local and state labs where blood-alcohol levels are tested
> suggest Engle’s reading may be the highest ever recorded in South
> Dakota, Sondreal said.
>
> Sondreal said a state chemist recalled a sample that tested .53, but
> nothing higher, in his more than 30 years on the job.
>
> Dr. Robert Looyenga, who recently retired from the Rapid City Police
> Department’s forensic laboratory, told Sondreal that the highest
> blood-alcohol sample he tested measured .56 percent.
>
> Sondreal’s research indicates that a blood-alcohol level of .40 is
> considered a lethal dose for about 50 percent of the population.
>
> “Engle’s was almost double that,” Sondreal said.
>
> After she was found, Engle was hospitalized and freed on bond.
>
> She failed to appear in court on Dec. 15, but Sturgis police located her
> Monday evening in another stolen car sitting in a ditch along S.D.
> Highway 34 near Fort Meade.
>
> Engle was arrested for second offense driving under the influence and
> taken to jail.
>
> Engle made her initial appearance in Meade County magistrate court
> Tuesday. She is being held without bond.
>
> Sondreal said Engle has been living in a hotel after recently moving
> here from Minnesota.
>
> Engle is most likely facing charges in Pennington County since both
> vehicles were stolen in Rapid City, Sondreal said.
>
> Contact Andrea Cook at 394-8423 or andrea.cook@rapidcityjournal.com.