Woman Beats DUI Charge Says Her Body Is A Brewery

There’s a new drunk driving defense in town. A New York woman has just successfully used the bizarre defense to fight a DUI charge after cops allegedly found her glassy-eyed and watched her blow a BAC four times the legal limit.
She wasn’t drunk, she claimed. Her body is a brewery.

The woman, a 35-year-old teacher blew a.33 BAC. That’s high enough to qualify as alcohol poisoning.

Usually, cops will take these suspected drunks to the hospital.
So after cops slapped her with misdemeanor charges of DUI and aggravated DUI.
It was discovered that the woman has a very rare disorder that turns ordinary food into alcohol in a person’s body. It’s called Auto-Brewery Syndrome.

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So what exactly is Auto-Brewery Syndrome? According to U.S. News and World Report, the bodies of sufferers use excess intestinal yeast to transform normal food into alcohol. The end result is life-threatening BACs.