Posted on 04/01/2019 11:34:43 AM PDT by 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.
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We had joints disguised as cigarettes......ala Laredo machines!..............My how time shave changed.........
President Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) kept an alcohol free White House except for guests who smuggled in rum-filled oranges.
Drinking OJT never appealed to me & is dangerous in a shop setting. Part of the relief of quitting time is going home and pouring an adult beverage, and enjoying it in perfect safety.
I guess eating spiked oranges isn’t noticed much until there’s an accident involving machinery.
It does if you fall asleep drunk and pass out for three hours at the beach..............
Our cops are pretty sharp...............
hey now, i have a medical condition that forces me to drink sunscreen-
I hope someone told the kids to first empty the lotion out of the bottle.
Whatever happened to adding rum to your can of Coke?
If you use the cocoanut oil lotion could you make pina coladas?
Ah geez! Cat and mouse passage of youth. I say, let ‘em alone as long as they ain’t actin’ up. I honestly don’t remember the ‘blue nose’ patrols like we have today.
Don’t forget, this is the Tide Pod Generation...................
My company was a tier I auto body stamping plant and definitely a dangerous setting.
I worked in HR and had a friend out in the shop who was an electrician. Hardly ever saw him until one morning he had to come into HR and pick up some insurance forms at about 9:30 a.m. He was visibly shaking from DT's.
Lunch break was from 11:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. and I found out from a couple other guys that Tim would high tail it out to his car in the parking lot on his lunch break and drink a whole six pack of beer for his lunch........
I guess Vodka infused Tide Pods are completely OUT!
+1
I may or may not have used gatorade bottles to hold a bottle of wine.
Not if you roll your own. ;)
Jeez. Just mix some booze in some plastic Coke bottles. Too simple for college geniuses I guess.
I knew if I followed this thread I’d run across a good idea.
A good burger and fries but no beer license? Problem solved.
Good burger hot off the grill, fries and a beer. Who could hope for anything better?
;-)
“Lunch break was from 11:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. and I found out from a couple other guys that Tim would high tail it out to his car in the parking lot on his lunch break and drink a whole six pack of beer for his lunch........ “
Worked with a guy who was drunk all the time. You couldn’t tell unless he had to do something like run his badge through the reader. It took both hands and intense effort for him to do that. I reported it and was told to mind my onw business. About a year later he had pains in his shins and went to the doctor. After an x-ray they put him in the hospital. Your heart needs calcium and will rob it from your bones if you don’t eat enough calcium. He told a coworker he hadn’t eaten any actual food in a year. (The KREBB cycle will convert to run on alcohol. It does not convert back.) Unfortunately, they took him off alcohol and although he ate food, he died about ten days later. If they had taken action when I reported him they might have saved him. But, no, every alcoholic I ever knew in the work setting was covered from above and couldn’t be fired, disciplined or treated.
Another teenage 80s experience: some gas stations and head shops sold vinyl can wraps that would turn your 12 oz beer into an innocuous can of “PIPSI” or “ORANGE CRASH”. May have looked ok from a passing car but were altogether unconvincing when wrapped around a bottle or a tall boy.
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