Vilnius, Lithuania ? Lithuanian police were so astonished by a breath test that registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their device must be broken. It wasn’t.

Police say 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol on his blood. Lithuania’s legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter.

Sungaila was pulled over Saturday for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway. He told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast.

“This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record,” Saulius Skvernelis, director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. “He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned.”

Experts say anything above 3.5 grams per liter of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people.