A Sturgis woman had a record-setting blood alcohol level of .708 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 was almost nine times the level at which South Dakota authorities presume a person is intoxicated.
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 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 the highest blood alcohol test measured he could recall was .56.
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 free on bond. She failed appear in court on Dec. 15, but Sturgis police found 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 currently 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.
#1
condemns the xecution in strongest terms! woo I bet China is shaking now, I wonder if he was just a regular white man and not muslim if he would have cared at all
Posted by: chris ||
12/29/2009 12:01 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Why, since all cultures are of equal value, would Gordo criticize China for enforcing their own cultural values?
This leads me to the conclusion that Gordo's philosophy is not internally consistent.
#11
ION SINA TIMES OF INDIA > [Indian] ARMY REWORKS DOCTRINE FOR WAR AGZ PAKISTAN, CHINA.
Proposed Highly Mobile, High-Techy BATTLE GROUPS capable of waging TWO-FRONT WARFARE AGZ PAK + CHINA, + ASYMMETRIC + FOURTH GENERATIONAL WARFARE AGZ MILITANT GRUPPES.
Sniff, sniff, reminds me of the debate oer AIRLAND BATTLE 2000, ETC. CONCEPTS DURING THE REAGAN-BUSH 1 ADMINS.
-------------------------------
WMF > QINQHUA SCHOLARS: NEW CHAOS MAY BREAK OUT IN XINJIANG IFF CHINA PREMATURELY SENDS PLA TROOPS INTO AFHGANISTAN. PASHTUN, TAIJIK, UZBEK, AND BALOCH, OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY UNREST CAN AFFECT BOTH COUNTRIES. VIOLENT COUNTER-REACTION OF HAN CHINESE.
#12
The Brits had better get used to taking it from China.
If I remember correctly they didn't fuss an awful lot about losing Hong Kong, but got all panties wadded over this loser.....I guess there are some priorities that just cannot be undone.
The organizers behind acclaimed Barbadian singer Rihannas planned concert in Abu Dhabi on New Year's Eve are denying media reports that the star has been told to trade in her trademark revealing, raunchy stage gear for a more wholesome look in her gig at the Emirates Palace Hotel in the emirate.
The facts and figures recently reported around Rihannas Abu Dhabi concert are totally inaccurate, said concert organizer Flash in a statement quoted by the United Arab Emirates-based English-language newspaper Gulf News.
The wardrobe row surfaced after the British tabloid the Daily Mirror claimed in a report over the weekend that Rihanna had been instructed to dress more conservatively for her show in Abu Dhabi and that the 21-year-old star was tearing her hair out over what to do" about it. The article also claimed Rihanna was being paid a whopping $500,000 for her performance, a sum for which the Daily Mirror said the star is likely to leave her latex body suits and extravagant bras in the closet. So Rihannas team is now said to be working around the clock to somehow figure out a way to make Rihanna's daring stage outfits go along with the local traditions in Abu Dhabi, which prides itself as the more mature and conservative brother of neighboring, freewheeling Dubai.
But Rihanna's supposed scrambling for a more wholesome look so as to not upset her conservative fans might prove a challenge. She knows that she'll have to compromise her style to fit in with local traditions, but a huge part of her show is her sexy stage gear, an unidentified source told the Daily Mirror.
Aside from maybe having to cover up in a sweater and a pair of jeans in her planned New Year's Eve gig, the British tabloid also suggested that Rihanna and her crew might also have to ring in the new year with soft drinks and juice instead of champagne, saying the singer may have to obtain a special license to store alcohol in her dressing room during the concert.
The incident is likely to mark this year's last wardrobe row in the Middle East, but it's certainly not the year's first. Only two months ago, Islamic conservatives in Egypt branded pop singer Beyonce's concert in Cairo an "insolent sex party."
Hamdi Hassan, a lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood, reportedly submitted a written complaint about the concert to the Egyptian Interior Ministry. He said the posters advertising the show, in which Beyonce was shown wearing a revealing outfit and gripping a pair of motorcycle handlebars extending from her hips, threatened Egypt's "social peace and stability."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
12/29/2009 13:34 Comments ||
Top||
#3
I've never understood the appeal of the leather-fetish-whips-chains-bondage look. I've never been turned on by the threat of physical pain--kind of a mood-breaker, it is.
Posted by: Mike ||
12/29/2009 14:25 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Um.....how do you square ...not upset her conservative fans... with her look in the first place?
Where did she get these conservative fans? Were they blind when they became fans?
#5
Young skank-ho music always sells well. Each hawt 'performer' lasts a year or two in the public eye and then goes away, unless they become even more raunchy and foolish (e.g. the lamentable Ms. Spears). Rihanna's star will fade in time, and I bet she knows it, so if she needs to wear a baggy sweater to make a half-million in Abu Dhabi, she should do so.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/29/2009 15:25 Comments ||
Top||
A Turkish archaeologist has called on his government to demand that Italy return the bones of St Nicholas to their original resting place.
It's probably just as well. I've got it on good authority that the guy who's been delivering the toys all these years isn't actually Saint Nicholas, but poor old Saint Sebastian. It started out as a public relations thing -- they discovered sometime around 1108 A.D. that children would rather get presents from a jolly old elf than from a skinny guy who'd been shot full of arrows -- and then it got out of hand.
The 3rd Century saint - on whom Santa Claus was modelled - was buried in the modern-day town of Demre in Turkey. But in the Middle Ages his bones were taken by Italian sailors and re-interred in the port of Bari.
The Turkish government said it was considering making a request to Rome for the return of the saint's remains. While Christmas is by and large not celebrated in Muslim Turkey, the Christmas figure of Santa Claus certainly is in the Mediterranean town of his birth. He was born in what was then the Greek city of Myra in the third century, and went on to become the local bishop, with a reputation for performing miracles and secretly giving gold to the needy - on one occasion being forced to climb down a chimney to leave his donation.
After his death he was canonised as Saint Nicholas, and venerated in much of the Christian world. But when Myra was occupied by Arab forces in the 11th Century, Italian sailors came and took the saint's bones to the port of Bari, where they remain interred to this day.
Prof Nevzat Cevik, head of archaeological research in Demre, says Saint Nicholas had made it clear during his life that he wanted to be buried in his home town. Even without the bones, the town of Demre has not been shy about cashing in on its most famous native son - today visitors to the Byzantine church there are greeted by a large, plastic Santa statue, complete with beard and red snow-suit.
Make the condition for their return government financing of the renovation of every church building in Turkey, the return of the Hagia Sophia to the Church for worship services, and the graduation of a full class of priests from the reopened seminary. When St. Nicholas was bishop, Christians worshipped freely. The Italian sailors acted to prevent his grave being desecrated by the conquering Muslim horde. Let the price of his return mark a Christian renaissance in the Byzantine home counties.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/29/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
See also TOPIX > TURKEY [Minister] DEMANDS BACK CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL VALUES FOUND IN ASIA MINOR.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The organizers behind acclaimed Barbadian singer Rihannas planned concert in Abu Dhabi on New Year's Eve are denying media reports that the star has been told to trade in her trademark revealing, raunchy stage gear for a more wholesome look in her gig at the Emirates Palace Hotel in the emirate. 
A Turkish archaeologist has called on his government to demand that Italy return the bones of St Nicholas to their original resting place.
