Fishermans Friend

[Mrs Fish]

[quote=ananova][b]Sucking a Fishermen's Friend could get you into trouble [/b]

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.
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[mutt k]

Interesting. A mod starts a thread that I suspect will have to be locked before too long when the oral sex with fishermen jokes start getting out of hand

[Mrs Fish]

[gh0st]

Interesting implications here - could we have people slightly over the limit eating fishermans friends to delay the result thus allowing their blood/alc level to drop in the meantime

[esselte]

So are we saying that the hand held machines react to substances other than alcohol? Better stay away from the wine gums then.