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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I showed up at work sober one day - they fired me for “acting funny”.
This is an old Kennedy family trick, trouble is, they drank the sunscreen first so they could reuse the bottle. Explains a lot.
Why can’t the drinking age simply be 18? It’s ridiculous to have it at 21. You can get an abortion and now Dems are pushing for 16 year olds to vote but they can’t drink.
I inadvertently contributed to the delinquency of minors in middle school. These guys had sniff snuff they were always sneaking into class. I told them, “Why don’t you take the ink tube out of a pen and fill the empty space with your snuff?” They were soon all tapping snuff out of their pens when the teacher wasn’t looking.
The cops won’t believe you need suntan lotion when you’re caught in the rain.
I’m 63, back in high school we could drink legally anywhere. Never faked a drink anytime.
Oh puleaze. There are plastic flasks made to resemble sunscreen bottles and tampon tubes but neither actually carried said product. Just plastic.
And drinkers are going to pour that flask into their soda. It isn’t even chilled.
That trick worked for Robert Mitchum on movie sets.
I tried to get work in a Shakespeare comedy once but they fired me for acting funny.
Interesting, I had to go look.
circumnavigate
find a way around (an obstacle).
*go around or avoid (an obstacle).
“he helped her to circumnavigate a frozen puddle”
*avoid dealing with (something difficult or unpleasant).
“they circumnavigated the issue”
circumvent
overcome (a problem or difficulty), typically in a clever and surreptitious way.
“I found it quite easy to circumvent security”
synonyms: avoid, get round, find a way round, evade, get past, bypass, sidestep, dodge; More
ARCHAIC
deceive; outwit.
“he’s circumvented her with some of his stories”
synonyms: avoid, get round, find a way round, evade, get past, bypass, sidestep, dodge;
That said, I always thought that brevity was the goal in journalism. Why use a big word when a smaller word is just as good?
In this case, replace a five syllable word with a three syllable word.
Just like replacing the four syllable "journalism" with the two syllable "fake news."
-PJ
Those big stainless Yeti tumblers don’t just keep coffee warm, they keep beer cold. Though drinking coffee at the beach may attract suspicion, it works in plenty of other venues. Either way, the idea is to prevent probable cause, which is why they give you the brown paper bag when you get a Tall Boy at the convenience store.
We smuggled bourbon into Sanfordstadium in ziplock bags.
Might work as long as they aren’t sugar-free gummy bears.
Remember when we threw frozen oranges at Howard Schnellenberger and scUM? There was something in those oranges. Something Russian.....:^)
My first summer after high skrool graduation was spent working as a groundskeeper at a big cemetery in Detroit. The first 6 weeks was spent making up flower boxes to be planted at the grave site of a loved one. The permanent employee I worked with drank either blackberry brandy stashed in his lunch box or moonshine out of an old screw top glass Alka-Seltzer bottle. That ‘shine was wicked stuff!
Been there....OTOH, don’t remember much water in bottles unless one considers the gallon jugs as bottles....
A fatal flaw in the plan.
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