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Car Breathalyser Confuses Ice Cream For Booze

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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:00:37 GMT

You know how it is: you've had a hard day, you've hit the Haagen Dazs pretty hard and then it's time to get home. That's of course as long as your car's in-built breathalyser doesn't decide that you've drunk too much booze and immobilised the engine as a precaution. That's what happened to one ice-cream scoffing Aussie who tried to drive home after eating Bubble O Bill ice cream at an ice cream bar. The in-car breathalyser gave a false positive and left him stranded which is why he went to court to argue for having it removed. We think this gent may have had a wee drink problem since last time we checked, breathalysers were not yet common options on current cars.

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