Beware of 'Drunk' Gummy Bears

Used to be, parents only had to look out for the famed (but debunked) razors in apples in their kids’ Halloween candy. These days, drunk Gummy Bears are the menace.

That’s right, intoxicated Gummy Bears.

It seems that teens are soaking the candy bears in vodka and gorging themselves, sometimes unwittingly, say, because the boozy bears are odorless and look similar to their sober brethren.

“Teenagers also may have no idea they are eating the vodka soaked gummies due to the vodka flavor being disguised,” police wrote in a community safety bulletin.

Officers haven’t received any reports of drunken bears on the loose in Gloucester Township, police hastened to add. The bulletin is merely an alert for parents, especially since the vodka bear recipe is online—a YouTube how-to received more than 17,000 views in less than a month, police said.

A Detroit news report warns of the drunken bear dangers. A pan of Gummy Bears soaking overnight absorbed a liter of vodka. The only distinguishing feature is that the bears double in size from the vodka bath.

Any gummy candy can be made into a drunken version, the report states.