Ice Cream Causes Breathalyser False Positives

Have to take a breathalyzer test? Whatever you do, don't eat ice cream beforehand. Here's what one Australian man found out the hard way: Bubble O' Bill ice cream treat will cause the test to come up positive for alcohol!

Prosecutors inquired why the machine had registered a "fail," which prevents the car from starting, despite the man's claims that he had not been drinking.

The man claimed the alcohol reading was the result of eating a Bubble O' Bill ice cream treat and Magistrate Rod Crisp ordered a test to be performed to back up the claim. Police recorded the man's blood alcohol content as 0.00 and performed the test a second time after he took a few bites of Bubble O' Bill, yielding a 0.018 reading.

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