So very, very drunk

Ho-lee shee-it, this guy is lucky he's not dead. At least he was lucky not to be dead until the inevitably monstrous hangover set in, that is.

Lithuanian police were so astonished by a breath test that registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their device must be broken. It wasn't.

Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices after he was pulled over Saturday for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius.

Lithuania's legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter.

Great googly-moogly, the guy wasn't drunk--he was embalmed! But my favorite part of the article comes from a Lithuanian police official. I have no idea if the following is an accurate translation, but if it is, hoo-boy...

"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned." [emphasis mine]

"High spirits." Like the man says, heh. Indeed.

Oh, and by the way, the guy isn't just a drunk, he's a genius, too.

Sungaila, who was slapped with a $1,110 fine and the loss of his license for up to three years, told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast.

I think a cold shower might work a little better, next time. That, or not nearly drinking yourself to death.