Sucking a Fishermen’s Friend could get you into trouble
Police in Germany are warning motorists that sucking a Fishermen’s Friend could get them into trouble.
It comes after a 24-year-old driver was found to be over the legal drink-drive limit during a routine control in Munich.
He was taken to the police station where blood tests found he had no alcohol in his system.
The man was released after officers found the strongest thing he had taken was a Fisherman’s Friend.
Forensic doctor Thomas Gilg said the essential oils contained in the throat sweets reacted in the same way as alcohol on hand-held breathalysers.
He said in tests they found just three of the mentholated sweets could cause a motorist to test three times over the legal limit.
Sounds to us like they could get you OUT of trouble as well. Were we a drinker, we think we would always keep a carton of those Fisherman’s Friends (whatever the frell they are) in the GP just in case we get pulled over, so we could cop a plea like the busted athletes who claim they were betrayed by “cold medication”.
from Ananova
what bad luck, needs to clean up his karma, or suck mints
Either that or switch to Mentos! hehe
That heading sounds more than so wrong! lol