When they started discussing the security aspects of this, and how it “sat around” before being handed to FEDEX....it brought back a Air Force episode from the mid-1980s.
We had a weather operations NCO on base who was identified for drug usage by the random tests. No one believed that she was a drug user, but the AF rule was....you get kicked out if identified by their test. She hires a lawyer and a private detective.
The private detective arrives at the base and makes his first stop at 7AM to the clinic on base....where Airman Snuffy was the only lab guy at 7AM on duty. The lab was the folks responsible for picking up the samples at the meeting point, and shipping them back to the Air Force drug testing lab.
It was a funny thing....the private detective noticed Airman Snuffy had red eyeballs and all the physical signs of smoking some weed. The private detective waited till the officer arrived....asked some questions, and then asked who could have handled the drug cups....and of course, Airman Snuffy was a person who would have the responsibility of putting these into the box to ship.
There was a short meeting then....where the NCO’s lawyer met with the Air Force Commander there, and identified the clinic airman and the circumstances identified. This would have turned into a three-ring circus because across the whole Air Force....they were all doing the same thing....so there was this agreement made up. The NCO accused in this case....had the charges dropped and all the fees incurred in the hiring of the private detective and lawyer....were paid by the Air Force. Weeks later, the clinic was relieved of all responsibility of handling the specimen cups. Everything had to be delivered by a team of at least two witnesses, to a overnight shipping point, and immediately released that day.
The blunt truth is that if allow the cups to sit around, there is always the potential for some idiot to add something to the cup or swap it with another cup. Course, I will say this....if Braun’s home-run pace drops by 50 percent this season....most everyone will say that he quit using something.
Really? What base? What year? Do you remember her name? I was in AF weather for 20 years and it's a very small AFSC...maybe I knew her.
Thanks for the anecdote. Everyone is ready to proclaim him guilty even though the sample was mishandled. Perhaps the reason he puts up such high numbers is because he’s an outstanding player.
The ‘mid-80s’...are you kidding me. Ya thinks things maybe a ‘little’ more advanced 30 years later?
I hear you about chain of custody but airman snuffy would have had to open Braun’s container and laced it with SYNTHETIC testosterone.