SMS service sez "You're too drunk!"
posted Sep 30th 2005 4:50PM
Here's one of the goofiest ideas we've seen in awhile: Sananim, an anti-abuse organization based in the Czech Republic, has set up a free service that allows boozehounds to text them information about the night's drinking debauchery; they'll then reply with an SMS telling you if you're too drunk to drive. There's no breathalyzer test here, mind you; you simply provide them with info concerning your sex, weight, drinks consumed, and time you started drinking, and their sophisticated algorithms (developed by Finland's A-Clinic Foundation) calculate if it's time to call a cab. Imagine if the police enacted a similar service: "Please text us your sex, age, weight, location, and crime you may have committed, and stay where you are. Our computer will determine the severity of your crime and dispatch the requisite number of officers." Yeah, OK. We say that if you're drunk enough to even consider using this wacky Czech system, you're probably at or close to the legal limit, and should immediately hand your keys over to the nearest attractive bar patron.
[Via textually.org]
Guys, I thought this was a family wesbite!
These pictures really catch my eye, but not in a good way.......
No, this site never was a family website :P This is a blog :P It's pretty self moderated unless someone really goes overboard especially with spamming because we all know spamming is the true devil next to aol!
They really need to have a personal cardboard box rental hub at bars so if you do become too drunk you can go outside and live in a cardboard box over night.
My guess is if you are coherent enough to accurately enter your vital information on a small, small keypad, chances are you can drive. You know...the difference between: a)"height = 68 inches" or b) "d8gy82 82hhsgz...ppppppppppt!"
Uhmmm...call me country bumpkin, but can someone explain this picture to me? Did he sit on a urinal and break it, or something? Or is this some freaky hi-tech-Czech toilet?
hah, forget the story! that picture is funny as hell.
Great picture. You guys ripped that off drinkingstuff.com without giving them some props check out the original here:
http://www.drinkingstuff.com/displaypage/content/pictures/picture.php?id=200
That is a great picture. Did you get that guys permission, or was that staged?
Best of both worlds: slightly less debaucherous image on this post (for the gadget-lovin' kids in the house), but you can peep the original in all its, uh, glory via Jimmy's link.
Thanks everyone.
you would think that some phone manufacturer would put a blood-alcohol breath analyzer in the mic of a cell phone. so like when you call your ex-girlfriend at 3am, the phone could tell the chick that you are drunk off your ass.
anyone have a link to that algorithm?
WHy not analyze the words you're saying?
How come the picture in the feed is different to the picture on the site?
bah, thats nothing, in Australia theres a mobile provider who offer tons of crazy services.
one service simmilar to this one is that before a night out (drinking) you can set your mobile up so it wont let you call a certain number (lets say a recent ex-) until sometime the next day (hopefully you'll have sobered up by then :)
another service gives you a call (you obviously have to call it first) and generates an excuse for you if you want to get out of a date (i.e. you turn it on in the toilets, go back to your date and in a few minutes it rings you and tells you what to do ) and thats just some of it :)
mmmmmmm......... pyramid apricot ale....
pyramid apricot ale outside of california? please do share...
if i wasnt so drukn right nwo i d say great idea but i think i drove home allkay ntonight ok so i sdidnt drive actuallyt i domnt know whaetre my car is - who post s this on a friday night. total bummewr man.
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