Drinking Suntan Lotion
Former Councilman Found Drinking Suntan Lotion
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A former Volusia County councilman charged with drunken driving was found at the scene drinking suntan lotion, according to police.
Investigators said Bill Long was apparently speeding on Interstate 4 near Lee Road Monday when he plowed into a vehicle.
The other car was totally destroyed but two people inside of it escaped without serious injury.
When officers arrived at the scene, he was found drinking the suntan lotion.
Police could not explain the behavior but said Long is being held on suicide watch Tuesday.
- That's a unique way of beating the breathalyser!
LINK: http://www.local6.com/news/14819831/detail.html
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A former Volusia County councilman charged with drunken driving was found at the scene drinking suntan lotion, according to police.
Investigators said Bill Long was apparently speeding on Interstate 4 near Lee Road Monday when he plowed into a vehicle.
The other car was totally destroyed but two people inside of it escaped without serious injury.
When officers arrived at the scene, he was found drinking the suntan lotion.
Police could not explain the behavior but said Long is being held on suicide watch Tuesday.
- That's a unique way of beating the breathalyser!
LINK: http://www.local6.com/news/14819831/detail.html
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I thought you were supposed to chew on pennies or take a huge dip to beat the test? What a tit. 0 -
Sitting in a large microwave will tan your insides quicker, though that coconut scent might be more appealing. 0 -
I once heard frequent burping will give the reader an artificially high reading.
SO why not burp repeatedly until one sobers up.0 -
Some people said this guy drank like a fish. This is a wierd story.
Spare a thought for the male hornyhead turbot. For despite its name, it is changing gender. And the sunscreens that symbolize bronzed sex appeal may be partly to blame. Scientists have found that male hornyhead turbot and English sole, feeding near sewage outfalls on the Californian coast, are being feminized - and a chemical found in sunscreens is the likely culprit.
IF YOUR SUNTAN OIL CAN CHANGE THE SEX OF FISH, WHAT CAN IT DO TO YOU?The stuff is not only on our skin: it's in our tap water and lunches too
by Geoffery Lean, Environment Editor
Published: 22 January 2006
Spare a thought for the male hornyhead turbot. For despite its name, it is changing gender. And the sunscreens that symbolize bronzed sex appeal may be partly to blame.
Scientists have found that male hornyhead turbot and English sole, feeding near sewage outfalls on the Californian coast, are being feminized - and a chemical found in sunscreens is the likely culprit.
Meanwhile, Swiss researchers have found other suspected gender-bender chemicals from sun creams and oils building up in fish in their rivers.
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, found that two-thirds of the male turbot and sole near a sewage outfall three miles off the surfers' paradise of Huntington Beach, near Los Angeles, were growing ovary tissue in their testes. A similar study by the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project found fish affected all along the coast. The American research is the first to find sex changes in fish in the open ocean.
Research on the feminizing of fish in British rivers by the UK Environment Agency, exclusively reported in The Independent on Sunday, concluded in 2002 that oestrogen in urine from the contraceptive pill was to blame.
But the University of California scientists found that the only culprit they could "exclusively identify" is oxybenzone, used to protect the skin from the ultraviolet component of sunlight.
Oxybenzone, which mimics oestrogen's chemical make-up, is washed off tanned bodies in the shower, passes through sewage works unchanged and settles on the seabed, where bottom-feeding fish eat it.
The scientists suspect the sunscreens are a contributory factor along with other pollutants, which they have yet to identify, such as DDT and PCBs. The new Swiss research, however, shows two other suspected gender-bender substances used in sunscreen and lip balm - octocrylene and 4-methylbenzylidene camphor - also building up alarmingly in fish.
They fear that people are being exposed to the chemicals several times over, first by putting them on their skin, and then ingesting them in drinking water and the fish they eat. But the cosmetics industry denies the chemicals are dangerous, and says that "sunscreen phobia" could lead to more cancers. For, unlike other cosmetics, sunscreens unquestionably save lives. About 100,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in Britain each year, of which 7,300 are particularly deadly melanomas that kill more than 1,600 people a year. Cancer Research UK fears melanoma numbers will treble over the next 30 years.
However, there have been other concerns about potential health effects. Some clear sunscreens use nanoparticles so small that they can penetrate the skin and even get into the brain.
There is also concern about a the universal use of sunscreens. By shielding ourselves from sunlight, we produce less vitamin D, which protects against as many as 16 different cancers.0 -
BET HE BEATS THE CHARGE
our sheriff did a few years back when he got cought
now days its who you r or who u know0 -
When I was a Paramedic I went on calls where a wino was drinking rubbing alcohol. For some reason, it was always wintergreen.
Transported one guy who was laying into the vanilla extract, that stuff is about 80 proof as I recall.
Suntan lotion? Is there any alcohol in that stuff?0 -
The oil he drank obscured the reading your honor. 0 -
This kid, Little Timmy, at summer camp, could take a slug of suntan lotion,
then make it come flying out his nose.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Sperry
This kid, Little Timmy, at summer camp, could take a slug of suntan lotion,
then make it come flying out his nose.
I expect the councilman soon saw if flying out his backside0
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