Man Safely Takes Woman Home from Bar and Allegedly Scores after Using “iDriveBAC” iPhone App.
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August 15th, 2010
EVERYVILLE, USA – It was a typical Saturday night down at the local pub when Joe McShmow, a 25 year old out-of-work bowling ball salesman, found himself in the serendipitous position of hitting it off with, as he describes it, “A smoking hot 10!” Sources however cannot confirm this, and as Joe was heavily intoxicated, “Beer Goggles” may have skewed this rating.
It all started while having drinks with his friends at the local pub when a group of heavily intoxicated women celebrating a bachelorette party saunter into the place. Joe, filled with “liquid courage”, approaches the “hottest” girl in the group. Surprisingly, they hit it off and the woman asks Joe to take her home to check out her new bowling ball. Joe however, having the good sense to question his ability to operate a motor vehicle, decides to check his sobriety using “iDriveBAC”1. “I wasn’t going to miss tapping that @%^ with another DUI yo,” he later goes on to say.
Fortunately for Joe, the application tells him he is “Epically Drunk!” so he decides to call a cab. It was a good thing too, because the Sheriff had set up a DUI check point right outside the local pub. Joe says, “I was lucky. I could’ve wound up in jail or even worse, dead. Instead, I got to experience the best two minutes of my entire life.”
1 “iDriveBAC” is an iPhone application developed by Drew Nichols of Ankovid LLC that can determine if one is sober enough to drive. The application is the only one of its kind available on the iTunes App store as it is not a joke/gag app, nor is it a drink tracker. The exam works by administering a neuro-psychological test and then comparing the user’s average reaction time and standard deviation against a baseline reading taken from when the user was sober. The application was modeled after studies taken from scientific journals that correlated increased reaction times and decreased accuracy to this test as alcohol intoxication increases. (Neuropsychopharmacology (2006) 31, 1301–1309. doi:10.1038/sj.npp.1300941; published online 26 October 2005) Using a proprietary algorithm, a score is generated. A score between 85-92 correlates to 0.08 Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC). The application is offered at $1.99.