Interesting news article:

Woman’s body acts as ‘brewery,’ so judge dismisses DWI

Some anomaly in her GI tract causes digesting food to sometimes be fermented into alcohol; she was repeatedly tested with a blood alcohol level above 0.30 without the benefit of booze. People with this condition seem to be able to get along because their bodies have grown adjusted to being drunk, but I gather that they’re still tipsy. And of course it’ll still trash their livers and such.

It occurs to me that this might be a *useful* condition. If it could be made into something that could be given to someone, I can see all kinds of utility in something that will make an enemy combatant constantly drunk. *Especially* an enemy combatant in a society that sees getting likkered up as an affront to an angry invisible sky wizard. The people born with this get used to blood alcohol levels of 0.3 and above, but imagine what sudden onset Auto-Brewery Syndrome would do to some dude in his twenties who has never had so much as a beer. The entertainment value alone of suicide bomber drunkenly weaving around and setting themselves off prematurely would be worth the development cost.