Florida Police Tells Spring Breakers Guzzling Vodka From Sunscreen Bottles: It Only Works If ...

www.newsweek.com ^ | 3/29/19 at 7:50 AM EDT | By Callum Paton

[Red Badger]

Police in Florida have let spring break revelers know that a scheme to circumnavigate drinking laws has been busted, telling them that drinking alcohol out of sunscreen bottles only works if the officers don't see them.

"Spring break fact: Hiding vodka in a sunscreen bottle only works if you don’t let a deputy see you drink out of it," the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook Wednesday alongside an image of two "Sport Sunscreen" bottles.

The post has been met with an outpouring of hilarity online. “Let’s all drink out of sunscreen bottles it won’t look suspicious at all,” wrote one Facebook user. “I’ll take a Tito’s and SPF-30 please,” wrote another.

While all can agree Okaloosa County’s reaction is amusing, social media users are divided over whether the strategy is smart or unequivocally dumb. "You gotta give them credit for the ingenious idea!!!" wrote one Facebook user. "Sad part is… these idiots are our future," wrote another.

The plan may be more thought out than first imagined and Facebook users concerned that today’s college students may be drinking vodka laced with sunscreen need not fret. The bottles appear never to have held sunscreen in the first place and are actually craftily disguised flasks.

A pair of the exact same sunscreen bottles as those shown on the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Facebook page are available for $9.99 plus tax on Ebay and are referred to as “Gopong Tropic Tang Sport Sunscreen Flasks.” A variety of similar products are available for between $6-$18.

In promotional images for the devices individuals are shown pouring liquid from the flasks into other drinks, rather than drinking from them directly.

[Red Badger]

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Florida Police Tells Spring Breakers Guzzling Vodka From Sunscreen Bottles: It Only Works If We Can't See You

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Okaloosa County! My Guys!...............

[freedumb2003]

This is smarter than, oh, say, WATER BOTTLES?

[Col Frank Slade]

Can’t imagine how this would look suspicious to police.

[Jeff Chandler]

Headline:

College Students Dumber Than Cops

[Karma_Sherab]

This is smarter than, oh, say, WATER BOTTLES?

I don't know......Vodka in water bottles?..........Amazing that college level spring breakers have to be told this

[Political Junkie Too]

a scheme to circumnavigate drinking laws

I think the author meant "circumvent."

I'll give him one point for daring to use important-sounding a big word.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

I'll give him one point for daring to use an important-sounding a big word.

[SkyDancer]

[Hot Tabasco]

Many years ago before water bottles were invented, guys in the stamping plant I worked for would would inject vodka into oranges then bring them into the plant for consumption while they worked.

[apillar]

This is smarter than, oh, say, WATER BOTTLES?

I remember back in my younger days, we would simply get a 7-11 "Big Gulp" cup of ice water with several straws, dump out the water, fill with our illegal beverage of choice and it would last all day at the beach, the fair, whatever. Never got checked by the police once.

[Zack Attack]

“This is smarter than, oh, say, WATER BOTTLES?”

In days of my youth, we didn’t put vodka in water bottles, we put water in vodka bottles...

Of course my dad would get pissed when he discovered his vodka didn’t have much kick to it.

[dp0622]

Clear alcohol in a water bottle??

Sounds like a much better idea to me.

[pinkandgreenmom]

I’m 48. Back in the 80s when I was a teen, we would empty out pump hairspray bottles, wash them, and fill them up with liquor. Then we would take them into concerts, movies, and other places outside food/drinks were not permitted.

[Red Badger]

News-weak....................

[dfwgator]

I remember at Florida Football games we had the flasks disguised as binoculars.

[NativeSon]

A beer can and a layer of ice fit into a big gulp, put the lid on, insert straw into beer can... ahhh, refreshing.

Also works at fast food joints.

[SamAdams76]

In my younger days, we used to pour margaritas into empty Gatorade bottles on the beach. Nobody ever suspected a thing.

But vodka in sunscreen bottles? Not convincing at all.

[Larry Lucido]

Does the vodka give you a good tan?

[apillar]

Many years ago before water bottles were invented, guys in the stamping plant I worked for would would inject vodka into oranges then bring them into the plant for consumption while they worked.

A guy I worked with kept this big Robitussin bottle in his desk, this thing was huge, don't think they make them that big any more, must have been a quart. Well he kept it filled with whiskey, several times a day he would make a fake theatrical cough, look over and wink, and say " I need some Robitussin" and take a big swig. Never got in any trouble for it as far as I know, though everybody, including management, knew what he was doing. I think the general consensus was as long as he got his work done, let him have his secret stash.

[Truthoverpower]

Here’s a better idea kid

take good red wine and put it in grape juice containers

I used to do that and walk around in public

everybody thought it was Welches

Aaaaaaaah. Youth !