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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It used to be 18, back when I was 18 in 1973 in Florida.
But the 18-20 year olds abused the privilege and would get drunk along with 13-17 year olds, not to mention all the DUI’s and wrecks they caused.
That age group does not have the maturity to handle the alcohol.
BUT you make a fine point that could be used for defeating the 16 year old voting movement, they can’t drink because they aren’t mature enough so they can’t vote either.................
They are probably all dead from sinus cancer now.................
I could look them up on FB, but that platform is worse than cancer.
Silly me! All this time I”ve been loading my spare magazines with the Gummi Bears! I’ll be sure to change that! “Hops-flavored Gummi Bears!”
!959 Ft Gordon Dairy Queen Blizzards, made good cover when going to Baseball games on post. First Sgt. laced with Scotch, I rum. It would make cover today.
I load mine with candy corn. Lots and lots of candy corn.
When we went to the football games at UF, they had flasks disguised as binoculars.
My brother and I i I I were amung the bump agees weher we culd drunk frum 18 2 21. Ut didn't hert us a bot!
Putting Binoculars in your mouth did not attract attention?...................
You poured the alcohol into your cup from the binoculars, you could easily hide that.
Were they real binoculars, modified, or fake binoculars made for the ‘occasion’?............
They were fake binoculars.
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