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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ Drinking a shot of beer in New York could get you arrested for drunken driving. At least that’s the way the New York law reads.

Lawmakers this year approved a bill that sets the standard for driving while intoxicated at 0.18 grams of alcohol in a person’s blood.

A person’s body might produce that much alcohol naturally, said Ed Fiandach, a DWI lawyer in Rochester.

Instead of using grams, the law should have used blood alcohol content as a measure.

“It was a typo,” said Assemblyman David Gantt, D-Rochester, who heads the Assembly Transportation Committee that approved the bill before it went to the Legislature. “If you go through our laws, mistakes are made all the time. We’re human beings.”

Yeah, except that this mistake made it all the way through New York’s legislative committees, both houses of the state legislature and the governor’s office before being noticed.