In other drinking news...

More and more area judges who order drunken drivers to avoid alcohol are using a snitch to monitor them that's more powerful than a nosy neighbor or suspicious spouse.

The device weighs less than a half-pound and is strapped to the offender's ankle to measure ethanol vapors as they leave the body. It takes hourly readings around the clock of the person's sweat to detect alcohol consumption.

***This should work better than the old blow in the tube thing connected to the starter system of their vehicle.