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The video below is a public
service message about drinking and driving. The lesson of this video is:
When you
think you are ready to drive,
you might actually be above the legal level of
intoxication.
VIDEO BACKSTORY:
This video is me on
December 31, 1985 being “drunk on the air.” I was working at ths time at KTOQ, a
Country music station in Rapid City, South Dakota. KTOQ was owned, in part, by
NPR News anchor Tom Brokaw.
“Drunk on the air” is
a frequent public service program used to demonstrate the danger of driving
while impaired. KTOQ got a local liquor distributor to sponsor the event. City
cops and state troopers were on hand to measure my blood alcohol content and
have me perform various sobriety tests. I insisted on a large bottle of good scotch. After four hours, I have consumed 8.5 tall glasses of hootch.
KEVN-TV, then the
local NBC affiliate, covered “drunk on the air” with a live broadcast during
the 6:00pm news. Then the unexpected happened.
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