TACOMA, Wash. -- A Pierce County woman apparently tied a record for the amount of alcohol in her blood when the Washington State Patrol toxicology lab measured a blood-alcohol content of 0.50 two hours after she was arrested for investigation of drunken driving.

Ann Marie Gordon, manager of the lab in Seattle, said the reading -- more than six times the legal limit of 0.08 -- tied the highest level ever found by technicians at the patrol's lab. A King County driver also registered 0.50 on a blood test in 2000.

"It certainly would kill many people", she said.

0.50.... 0.50! The woman in the picture didn't even hit that.

If you keep reading the article it points out the woman was 45... of course she was a coug. I could've told you that just by reading the headline. I mean it's obvious what happened here... the woman was driving around in her Subaru wagon cranking "Magic Man" out the windows after having a few pops at the local tavern. But 0.50 is still ridiculous.. it must have been the live version. It's just too bad she couldn't have had that "one last beer" to break the record.

And as a side note, last Saturday afternoon at an Irish bar down in Newport I personally witnessed a cougar pound 2 shots of Goldschlagger during what she claimed was her half-hour break from work. It was impressive to say the least. She also claimed to have been an ex-Patriot cheerleader.... in 1985.