Auto-brewery syndrome - amazing defense

[TK]

Imagine being charged with a DUI when it’s been hours since you’ve had a drink, only to later discover that your body brews its own alcohol.

That’s what happened to an upstate New York woman when she blew a blood alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. Just before Christmas in Hamburg, New York, a judge dismissed the charges after being presented with evidence the woman suffers from “auto-brewery syndrome.”

“I had never heard of auto-brewery syndrome before this case,” attorney Joseph Marusak told CNN on the condition his client’s identity remain anonymous. “But I knew something was amiss when the hospital police took the woman to wanted to release her immediately because she wasn’t exhibiting any symptoms.”

“That prompts me to get on the Internet and see if there is any sort of explanation for a weird reading,” adds Marusak. “Up pops auto-brewery syndrome and away we go.”



http://ktla.com/2016/01/03/new-york-woman-claims-her-body-brews-alcohol-has-dui-charge-dismissed/

[TuHolmes]

Saw this the other day.

Apparently to use it as a defense, a doctor and their assistants have to follow you around all day and watch everything you put in your body, then take a BAC test after.

That's the only way a defense works in this instance.

[SF1900]

Auto-brewery syndrome, also known as gut fermentation syndrome, is a rare medical condition in which intoxicating quantities of ethanol are produced through endogenous fermentation within the digestive system

[calfzilla]

Maybe that's what shizzo has and he actually hasn't started drinking again?

[SquidVicious]

This is no different than Michael Lockett, Michael Ashley and Michael O'Hearn's magical abilities to build copious amounts of muscle without exogenous testosterone. Instead of an auto-brewery of alcohol, they all possess and auto-brewery of trenbolone in their testicles. Or being named Michael gives you triple test levels. One of these is surely true. 

[falco]

In my country there are a local kind of berries that makes you drunk if you eat them enough.

[Yamcha]

In my country there are a local kind of berries that makes you drunk if you eat them enough.

Dingleberries? 

[Yamcha]

you tried them?

only the homegrown ones

[Kwon_2]

Nice, never heard of this Trey Brewery-syndrome before.

[Kwon_2]

Homegrown dingleberries are always a cut above the rest.