Quote: I have seen demonstrations put on by our local police department using volunteers: the volunteers drive through a course marked out by pylons, and their abilities are noted.
The town I went to school in had this demonstration every year. They would take all the confiscated alcohol, bring it out to a large empty lot, and have volunteers from the area's schools (three colleges/universities) come in. You would run the course, then have a drink, rinse and repeat. It was shocking to see how few drinks would cause people to start taking out the cones.
Of course, it was also shocking at how much some people could drink and still run the course perfectly. That was probably a cultural thing (they weren't US citizens).
At work, we went out for lunch and some people had a beer or two to go with it. We got back to work and decided to see how bad having one or two drinks was for coordination. We took turns climbing into the simulator (helicopter) and tried to do a simple take off, fly a pattern, hover, then land flight plan. I don't think anybody managed to take off in few than three tries, and that includes people who flew the actual aircraft for 15+ years and have an insanely stupid amount of hours in that sim.
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