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To celebrate the occasion of Lindsay Lohan's second graduation from a luxurious local rehabilitation program since February (it's been a busy year, to be sure), soon-to-be exhausted publicist Leslie Sloane Zelnick released a statement indicating that her client would be voluntarily donning a SCRAM alcohol-monitoring bracelet as a symbol of her newfound commitment to never again passing out in the front seat of a friend's car while looking like a cadaver stolen from the Teddy's School of Forensic Medicine. ABC News today familiarizes Lohan's fans with the device that will soon be featured in numerous Us Weekly "Stars...They're Proud Of Their Tenuous Sobriety, Just Like Us!" spreads and quickly become the must-have accessory for Young, Troubled Hollywood, and which, according to an early adopter of the fashion trend, has an undeniable retro-cool vibe:
"It's like a 1980s pager on either side of your ankle," says Cassie, 22, who has worn the bracelet for more than five months after being caught drinking and driving on three separate occasions.
Cassie, who is one of 5,347 people wearing the bracelet in the United States, described the bracelet as "big and noticeable" and "very uncomfortable." Her skin gets irritated under the bracelet and she can no longer wear her "cute boots" because of the bulky hardware.When asked if she's tried to get away with drinking while wearing the bracelet or whether she's tried to tamper with the device, Cassie says she hasn't because she knows "they'd know no matter what."
As Lohan's use of the transdermal-monitoring device is completely voluntary, we question its efficacy for anything other than providing photo-ops aimed at reversing her image as Hollywood's most booze-enamored, call-time-oversleeping starlet; still, we'll give her the benefit of the doubt that for at least the time being, she's wearing an authentic, fully activated bracelet, which should soon make for an amusing scene in a booth at Hyde when Lohan, thinking it's OK to spike her ubiquitous can of Red Bull with some forbidden vodka, throws her leg up on the table and demands, "Just saw my fucking foot off, right now. I can't get my drink on with this fucking thing beeping at me like that."
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