Take a deep breath and...blow?

[Charlie]

This is from a paper here in Texas called "The Blues," Vol. 19, No. 6, June 2003 on page 5. The article is written by publisher Sgt. Buddy Williams of the Houston Police Department. Now THIS is 'interesting' to say the least:

"Maybe I have been a cop too long. Maybe I have not been a cop long enough. I have seen (and done) many things in my career, some of which I wish I could forget...some things I hope I never do. Some are funny, some are sad, but many...many of the things I recall having seen people do to themselves and each other are just plain ridiculous.
Now a new one has come along that I first discounted as cop talk bull$hit. But after checking it out, I have come to the conclusion that this phenomenon is not only happening, but happening with more and more frequency. What new and ridiculous things are people doing now?
It's called 'Butt Bonging' and if you haven't run into it yet, you probably won't believe it either.
In an effort the avoid the infamous intoxilizer, a growing number of young (and probably old) people in our fair land have taken to giving themselves beer enemas. You heard me right. Beer enemas. The alsohol. I am told, enters the bloodstream in much the same way as it would entering the body through the mouth, and renders the consumer drunk just as well, but with no tell-tale odor of alcohol on their breath. Presto, no suspicious cops, no DWI, no jail. Just, I would assume, soggy underwear. Just one more place to check for probable cause I guess.
Experts have advised that these folks should remove their heads from that particular orifice, as well as the butt bong since the Intoxilizer measures alcohol in the blood, not in the breath. As for the odor of alcohol, I don't even want to contemplate the odors officers may hav to result to in working one of these cases.
How in the world, I wondered, would a person do such a thing, not to mention why? Apparently, a normal beer bong is used, just uh, backwards...I guess. I don't want to even think about it anymore...
If any of you street folks out there run across this type of behavior, drop us a line with the details.
We can learn something from all this nonsense. As professionals, little shocks us anymore but we should be reminded from time to time that people can be very weird. Our 'radar' should always be turned to pick up anything citizens can think up to do to themselves or each other, for fun or foul play. From butt bongs to trying to jump over moving car. From sniffing moldy buttermilk to dangling babies over second floor patio railings. From pointing toy guns at cops to shrunken cat heads.
It's a crazy world out there...and no one nows it better than we do.
Butt 'butt bonging'? For crying out loud.

[Darin]

Thats just great. First gerbils, now bongs.:rolleyes:

[Stump]

Is this a joke????

[Charlie]

Stump--Apparently, as Sgt. Williams says, it is not a joke! This is a legit paper and they also have a web site:

http://www.thebluesnews.com

But, Williams' article is likely not on the web yet as this story is in his latest paper. The paper does not have any affiliation with HPD.
--
Charlie

[Scruit]

The alcohol the a cop smells is on your breath. The alcohol that the intoxilzer picks up enters your breath from the bloodstream in the lungs (that's why you have to wait a period of time for the last drink before you use the intoxilyzer)

Although there may be no smell of beer on the breath, all the opther indicators of DWI/DUI will be there, like driving like crap etc. And the intoxilyzer will still get you if it's on your bloodstream.

[mcsap]

Drunk is drunk NO MATTER how the alcohol is "ingested". The obvious effects are always the same.

Under 21 yrs old we only need a .02 BAC for a DUI charge. So if we smell booze on you, you are going in for a blood test. ( we dont use any kind of breath machine)

[911]

Anyone who does that can hold their OWN tube when it come to blowing in the Intoxilyser...

[txinvestigator1]

Originally posted by 911
Anyone who does that can hold their OWN tube when it come to blowing in the Intoxilyser...

ROFLMAO:D :D :D