One man was charged with drunken driving after crashing his truck and spilling 11,000 salmon onto a highway in Oregon.
This week, the man in Belgium was acquitted of a drunken driving offense — he wasn’t a boozer, the court found; his body was essentially making its own beer.
It’s the latest turn in the spotlight for the strange disorder, which periodically appears in a flurry of headlines after a particularly odd or egregious case.
Most incidents involve accusations of drunken driving, when people who have the disorder, known as A.B.S., get behind the wheel of a car believing they are sober.
Reactions to such defenses often range from admiring to dismissive, but medical doctors and science have long backed up that the strange condition does exist.
Persons:
boozer
Locations:
Oregon, Belgium