Belg with 6.4 per cent alcohol in hospital: Previous record was 6.2

A Belgian of 21 went to the hospital of Aalst last weekend.

Certainly thirty glasses of beer are needed for a man with normal posture to get such a high alcohol content. 'Such a high alcohol concentration can lead to cardiac and respiratory arrest, resulting in death,' says a toxicologist in the newspaper. 'Getting into coma can already be 4.5 percent. '