Gin Soaked Raisins Send Lady to Jail?

Despite all the crazy crap on the shelves at your local drug store, people still resort to home remedies to cure a lot of stuff.

I routinely drink Ginger Ale for every ailment I have. Sore tooth? Ginger Ale. Hernia? Ginger Ale. Broken Thumb? Ginger Ale. 

Works EVERY time*

However, if I were to try a home remedy that HAS been floating around in Internet culture, I think I would at least think about the ramification it could have on my probation.

An Easton woman says she flunked a court-ordered urine test not because she was drinking but because she was eating gin-soaked raisins to ease her arthritis pain.

Judy Russo, 59, of Easton filed a motion Monday in Northampton County Court to have her incarceration changed back to probation because she argues she did not violate her probation by drinking, but instead ate gin-soaked raisins to treat the arthritis that has wracked her body.

Russo pleaded no contest to a stalking charge in February and was given three years’ probation by Judge Leonard Zito on the condition that she remain alcohol- and drug-free. She was returned to prison by Zito earlier this month after her drug test showed the presence of alcohol.

“Ms. Russo suffers from migrating arthritis that she is unable to treat with conventional medicine,” wrote her attorney, Jason Jenkins. “The defendant acknowledges that she had consumed gin-soaked raisins.”

Jenkins said Russo used the home remedy because she had heard it from longtime radio personality, Paul Harvey, who died in February. He says Russo’s arthritis and lung cancer cannot be adequately treated in prison. Source

Quality defense. However, given that she was charged with STALKING and not some lower tier DUI, I have a feeling this lady is a few grapes short of the wrath.

Honestly, you can’t drink, don’t drink alcohol. Don’t take cough syrup, etc. It’s not that complicated.

However, I have now been introduced to an awesome new way to eat raisins. Thank you!