While of course I do not condone the act of driving under the influence of alcohol I have often heard that placing a penny or two in your mouth if you have to take a breath test for the police will register negative for alcohol. Is there any truth to this? Now that I am older and muture I would like to put the myth to bed.
Nothing will trick the breath test. The fumes are coming up from your stomache. Now, if you DRANK the mouthwash… no, wait, there’s alcohol in it!
Always hilarious to hear about what people will try, though!
>> The fumes are coming up from your stomache.
Also called the lungs.
No, I know for a fact that when I drink, the liquid goes to my stomache. If it went to my lungs, I would drown.
Breath is merely the delivery system.
EJ: Depends on the mouthwash you use. I use either Rembrandt[sup]tm[/sup] or Tom’s[sup]tm[/sup], both of which have no alcohol.
p.s. I mean that’s the mouthwash I use. I don’t drink so I’m not worried about DUI.
Me too, actually! I just included it because mouthwash figures prominently in the “I can beat it if they can’t smell it” scenario.
Oh man, sticking pennies in your mouth? :smack:
That is just vile.
There are some molecular seives (small pellets) which I’ve dealt with in the past that remove alcohol vapours very effectively. Sorry, but I will not tell you where to get it and even if I did I don;t about the safety of you popping these things in your mouth (more so when you are drunk). And I don’t want to speculate on you trying to slip them into the breath analyzer.
Balogna. There are no “fumes coming from the stomach”; the alcohol measured by the breathalyzer comes from the LUNGS. The breathalyser measures BLOOD ALCOHOL, which crosses over when blood circulates through the lungs.
No shit? I had heard for years that it was from ingested alcohol via the stomach. My bad.
Of course, I failed every breathalyzer I ever took, so… 
So, you could tell me, but then you’d have to kill me?
Actually the alcohol comes from the bottle. Then to the “stomache” , then to the blood, then to the lungs, then to the breathalizer and the you and your alcohol go together for a ride downtown.
Ass pennies? 
That was actually my very first thought too.
Bwahahaaha.
Gross.
I`ve heard of assclamps, assmonkeys, assgrips, and assholes but what the fuck is an asspennie??
sailor – You left out the liver, now do it over.
whuckfistle: Well, the search page is giving me grief, but somewhere in the BBQ Pit is a thread titled (I believe) “No, I don’t want any ass change!” which I’m sure you’ll enjoy.
Here it is: " Attention customers, we will no longer be taking any ass change."
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57767
I gotta ask. So all this time,you thought,when you inhale the air goes to the tummy,and vice-versa???
Soo how many DUI’s do you have fercrissakes? If none why the breathalyzre’s??