NEWS: Arrive Alive: Don't Use Listerine and Drive

CULTURE: Arrive Alive: Don't Use Listerine and Drive

So, you've got a big date. Shower? Check. Freshly laundered clothes? Check. Mouthwash? Remember to only gargle with that last one, particularly if you use Listerine. Carol A. Reis of Michigan was arrested for drunk driving after having consumed three glasses of the mouthwash. She registered over three times the legal blood-alcohol limit at the time of her arrest.

Information which might have been handy in high school:

I think drinking Listerine to get drunk is officially "hitting bottom."

I can barely make it through the recommended 30 seconds you're supposed to rinse your mouth with it.

That explains all my behaviour while I was waiting to have my wisdom teeth out,

Ummmm.... You're really supposed to drink that stuff, are you?

I saw this guy at Target once buying like 20 bottles of cough syrup from the clearance bin. They were marked down to 88 cents, and he was buying the entire shelf.

scary shit... i've seen a few homeless persons in calgary, drunk and drooling from drinking that shit.

the nastier effects of longterm drinking of that, is a very scarred and pockmarked face... whatever they put in listerine, that gets ride of germs is not meant for consumption...

dude, people have drank the liquid from aerosol cleaners to get drunk before, listerine is at least not a chemical..

is the high alcohol content part of what makes listernine the best, or do other mouthwashes have this much?

youre only supposed to drink listerine as a shot to followup a pint of 'tussin. three glasses, that's just madness.

'tussin.

oh god, don't remind me of my 'devil's medicine' days.

-pb

some people sometimes use mouthwash to try fuck with breathalyzer testers(there was abnother product that was marketed for this specific purpose, we stopped carrying it in the gas station where I worked because of this)

on my 21st birthday someone bought me a drink called a "liquid cocaine" that tasted exactly like listerine. it was awful.

[Edited on Jan 16, 2005 7:05PM]

It says right on the bottle "Do not swallow". That's seriously fucked up that someone would drink 3 glasses. Couldn't she just have bought some beer?

No wonder it burns the shit out of my mouth. I may re-concider the 2nd lip piercing.

liquid cocaine is a foul concoction, but it sounds so cool that i often forget that fact and take a shot anyway.

White rain hairspray is "rock bottom"

Did you ever see the Myth Busters where they tried different techniques to avoid the breathalyzer? Mouthwash made the percentage on the breathalyzer go up right after they used some, due to all the alcohol it contains.

hahahaha. No wonder the blue version is sooo SPIIICCCCCCCCYYYYYYYYYY

She drank 3 glasses of Listerine? Good god!

I've accidentally swallowed a few drops of that stuff while gargling before and felt like I was going to die. I can't even fathom downing 3 glasses of the shit.

But hey, I'll bet her breath is really fresh now...

I'm sure this has already been brought up but...


...who the fuck drinks mouthwash?!


[Edited on Jan 17, 2005 by AceTracer]

Listerine can false-positive some of the older Breathalysers and other "probable-cause instruments", according to several of my client officers who specialise in DUI/Traffic enforcement. This usually results in some field testing if you're acting under the influence, etc etc.

Be careful out there...

This reminds me of the bit Carlin did about the process of swallowing.

"...cause your throat doesn't trust your mouth, it'll just let any shit in there..."

Bums drink listerine.

yuck why would anyone want to do thatt?
i can't imagine it would taste good
she must not be all there

i can hardly stand to keep it in my mouth for 30 secs