Overview
- Agents from Argentina’s National Road Safety Agency stopped a car in San Martín, Mendoza, and a breathalyzer read 2.44 grams of alcohol per liter of blood.
- The driver, 33, told inspectors he had been drinking fernet before the result.
- Authorities detained him and seized his license and the vehicle under Mendoza’s rules.
- Mendoza sets a 0.5 g/L cap for private drivers, and readings over 1.0 count as a serious offense with fines that can reach 5.5 million pesos.
- A passenger’s shocked line — “Es una banda, viejo” — was caught on video and helped push the case into national news.