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Want wine? Blow into this

One of those weird wine vending machines run by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is coming to Upper Darby tomorrow. You have to blow into a built-in breathalyzer to get your booze.

One of those weird wine vending machines run by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is coming to Upper Darby tomorrow. It'll be the first in southeastern Pennsylvania. Why are they weird? Because you have to blow into a built-in breathalyzer to get your booze. And if your blood-alcohol content is .02 or higher ... no wine for you! They confirm your ID by video camera.

Your thoughts?

It sounds like something out of the movie Brazil to me. Having said that, there's an outside chance that curiosity will get the best of me and I'll be at the Fresh Grocer in Drexel Hill at 10:59 a.m. tomorrow doing pushups to get my BAC below .02 so I can buy a bottle of pinot noir.

Read more about the Pronto Wine Kiosk program here. This is what they look like.