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| Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives at Sir Richard Branson and Eve Branson's Rock the Kasbah Gala to benefit Virgin Unite and the Eve Branson Foundation at Vibiana in Los Angeles, October 26, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) |
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Lindsay Lohan is now wearing an alcohol-monitoring bracelet to keep her from drinking. Some parents might wonder, if the bracelet is so useful, can I get one for my teen?
The answer is no.
At present, the ankle bracelets, worth of 1,500 U.S. dollars, are only sold to the courts, probation officers to keep drunken drivers or anyone involved in alcohol-related offenses from drinking again.
On Monday, a bracelet was fixed on Lohan's ankle by an angry judge, because the actress didn't show up for a hearing last week in Beverly Hill, Calif., instead flew to Cannes to take part in the Film Festival in France.
It's her second go-around with the bracelet. Rapper-actress Eve wore one and ex-basketball star Jayson Williams was forced to earlier this year.
The bracelet can check the perspiration on the skin. If there's alcohol, it causes a chemical reaction in the device's fuel cell. The bracelet are much like the better known electronic ankle bracelets that have been used for years to restrict suspects or parolees to their homes. (The alcohol bracelets can now do that too, if needed.)
(Agencies)
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LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan was ordered on Monday by a Beverly Hills judge to wear an electronic alcohol monitor in a court hearing related to her 2007 no contest plea to drunk driving, local media outlets reported.
Aside from ordering Lohan to have the SCRAM device installed within 24 hours, Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel also ordered the 23-year-old actress to undergo random drug testing in California and attend once-weekly alcohol education classes in spite of the fact that Lohan's defense attorney Shawn Chapman Holley had protested, saying this would interfere with the actress's work on a movie in Texas. Full story
