Is there some kind of urban myth that drinking wite-out will help you beat a breathalyzer? I can remember hearing that putting pennies in your mouth would help you beat a one, but never wite-out. Of course, if I was in a police station looking at my fourth DUI arrest I would probably try some pretty crazy shit to get out of it as well.
Juan Briceno, 33, was arrested at a taco stand last year and taken to police headquarters so that the cops could administer a breathalyzer test. While Briceno was waiting for the tech to show up and give him the test, he picked up a bottle of wite-out from an officer’s desk and took a chug of it. Once the tech showed up she pointed out to officers that Briceno had “mime-white lips”. Using brilliant powers of deduction the cop checked out Briceno’s lips, checked out the bottle of wite-out and then put two and two together.
Unfortunately for Briceno and us the cops hauled his ass down to the hospital for a blood test where they found he was sporting a .28 BAC. I’ve heard of higher BACs but I have never heard of someone trying to hide it with wite-out.
I wish they would have given him the blood test and then the breathalyzer so that we could find out if wite-out had any effect on the results. The bottle lists wite-out as flammable and harmful if swallowed so maybe it would dick with the test. Of course based on this guy’s luck if they had given him the breathalyzer his BAC probably would have registered higher.
