Alcohol anklets detect drinking in Vegas court
Robert Fry has a dirty little secret shackled to his ankle.
It sits above his work boot, right where the construction worker sweats, right where his buddy could see it and snicker -- Fry's little Big Brother, an alcohol monitoring machine that detects any drinks he sips by analyzing secretions of his skin.
Identical anklets are strapped to about 60 Clark County residents, men and women whose problems with alcohol have landed them in court.
It sits above his work boot, right where the construction worker sweats, right where his buddy could see it and snicker -- Fry's little Big Brother, an alcohol monitoring machine that detects any drinks he sips by analyzing secretions of his skin.
Identical anklets are strapped to about 60 Clark County residents, men and women whose problems with alcohol have landed them in court.
They're people who have agreed, as part of a pretrial promise not to drink, or for a reduced bail, or in lieu of jail time, to wear the black plastic devices, called SCRAM, short for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor.
