Driver jumps in river to escape check
A motorcyclist in Haimen who evaded police for two hours by jumping into a river in an attempt to dilute his blood-alcohol level was punished with a stay in a detention house. The man, surnamed Hua, was stopped at about 1 pm on Aug 5 after officers noticed him driving erratically. He refused to provide a sample for testing, ran away from the police and jumped into a nearby river that he drank from extensively. Once back ashore, Hua just barely passed a blood-alcohol level test and was charged with obstruction of justice.
NEW CULTURE DAILY mailing a woman from Liuzhou for 5,000 yuan over nude photos of her. The woman’s ex-boyfriend shared the photos with his friends after his relationship with the woman ended. Huang downloaded the photos from a QQ account belonging to one of the friends in June last year. After Huang was sentenced, his family agreed to reimburse the victim. GXNEWS.COM.CN after drinking “treasured alcohol” he found in a jar at his nephew’s restaurant. After he was transferred from a local hospital to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on Aug 4, doctors told Fu to drink 35 milliliters of 60 percent proof alcohol per hour while he was receiving dialysis treatment. Over six days, the methanol content in his blood decreased from 487 milligrams per liter to 4.6 mg/L. The doctors explained that the ethanol in the alcohol stopped the methanol from the formaldehyde reacting with enzymes in the bloodstream, helping to detoxify the patient.
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