
| Ankle Bracelet Beer Detector WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Luzerne County will soon begin outfitting repeat drunken driving offenders with an ankle bracelet that detects alcohol in perspiration. The 8-ounce device samples the wearer's perspiration at least every hour and collects, stores and sends data to a monitoring agency. It also detects and reports attempts to tamper with the device, such as trying to insert something to block the sweat. Anyone wearing one of the ankle bracelets can drink alcohol undetected as long as his or her blood-alcohol level doesn't rise above 0.02. That's about the equivalent of two drinks on an empty stomach in an hour for a 180-pound man. Offenders must pay for the devices, including an installation fee of around $50 to $100 and a monitoring fee of about $10 to $12. Hoegaaden Protest A protest is going on over the decision by InBev to move production of Hoegaarden from the village of Hoegaarden to another facility. A protest web site from the village asks: If champagne has to be produced in a strictly assigned region, why shouldn't an internationally famous, but typically regional original product like the Hoeegarden White beer, be produced here in the town of Hoegaarden. Support the protesters here http://users.myonline.be/~tdn46833/ |

| Ya gotta love these guys |
| Raymond Hankins- ""One pint of beer ... equals 1/2 college credit in philosophy." Mark Hawkins - ""Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology." |
| Don Marquis - "Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into." Beer Can Collector - Anybody can brew beer, but only GOD can make rust! |
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