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The two whizzes who created a device to beat drugs tests just learned a valuable lesson: You don't pee on the United States government out of a fake penis and tell 'em it's raining. Robert Catalano and George Wills have just plead guilty in U.S. District Court for conspiring to sell the Whizzinator -- a prosthetic penis sold with a heating device and dried urine which, quite obviously, helps people fake their way through drug tests

Teen Pees In Teacher's Drink, Police SayUPDATED: 5:16 pm PDT September 23, 2008 CASTLE ROCK, Wash. -- Police in Washington said they've arrested a teenager for urinating in his teacher's drink. Investigators said officers arrested the 13-year-old at Castle Rock Middle School on Friday, and he's now facing a felony charge. Castle Rock police said the victim was a woman who was teaching four eighth-grade boys Friday when one of them peed in her drink. The teacher walked into her class just in time to catch the boy zipping up and discovered urine in her plastic drink bottle, officers said....

Ramsey County sheriff's deputies found weapons and devices to disable buses - among other items - in searches in the Twin Cities last night and today. Authorities said the items came from "key members of the RNC Welcoming Committee," a self-described anarchist group. Five people have been arrested and four properties have been searched, according to the sheriff's office. At 8 a.m. today, the sheriff's office executed search warrants at three Minneapolis homes - 2301 23rd Ave. S., 3500 Harriet Ave. and 3240 17th Ave. S. The FBI, Minneapolis police and the Hennepin County sheriff's office assisted them. "The 'Welcoming...

Family wins $40,000 over food tainted with urine by North Platte Bulletin Staff - 7/14/2008 A police officer from Sidney and his family won $40,000 from a restaurant that served them food tainted with an employee’s spit and urine. Officer Keith Andrew and his wife said in the lawsuit that a Taco Bell employee urinated and spit in food served to them and their children in October 2005. The owner of the restaurant is North Platte’s Mid-Plains Food and Lodging, owner of a KFC and Taco Bell here too. The jury sided with the Andrews July 11. In the lawsuit,...

NESS CITY, Kan. - Deputies say a woman in western Kansas became stuck on her boyfriend's toilet after sitting on it for two years. Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital. "We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

CHURCH HILL, Tenn. - Investigators are searching for whomever poured deer urine into an air conditioning unit at a school in eastern Tennessee. About a dozen students became ill after the prank at Volunteer High School in Church Hill. Firefighters were sent to the school Monday after the odor became overpowering in one classroom, and paramedics treated students who complained of headache and nausea. Church Hill Police Chief Mark Johnson says the stunt could result in a vandalism charge. Deer urine is sold by the bottle to be used to attract the animals for hunting.

An employee of an Auburn nursing home called firefighters for help because the toilets were exploding with steam...

A Spartanburg mother is accused of stabbing her son several times Christmas morning, but her son is the person facing charges. City police say it appears the mother, 45-year-old Tammy Jones, stabbed her son because he urinated on her while she slept in her bed. 21-year-old Michael Anthony Carson, nicknamed Pooh Bear, is charged with aggravated assault and battery. Police arrested him at his mother's home on Wednesday. City police say Jones stabbed her son six times with a butcher knife. He suffered wounds to his shoulder, calf, and chest. Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you...

ELIZABETH, Ind. - A Kentucky man who was playing slot machines at the Caesars Indiana casino claims he sat in a chair soaked with urine left by a gambler who had just exited the seat. Floyd Kibiloski, 60, of Fern Creek, Ky., filed a complaint with the Indiana Gaming Commission, saying a woman who had been playing the slot machine moments earlier had urinated in the chair at the southern Indiana casino. "My whole concern is that they fix this," he told The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky. "It's not apparent that they have anything in place to deal with this...

(MAYUGE) - If you are a farmer, you may want to think twice about flushing your urine down the toilet. Urine may be a waste product but it also has many uses, and the best part of it is that it comes with no price tag. Farmers in various parts of the country use human urine as fertilizers and to fight crop diseases. The method started in Baitambogwe Village in Mayuge District but has now spread to over 21 districts. Through knowledge sharing via telephone Short Message System commonly known as SMS, farmers in Baitambogwe are propagating the method to...

Reports in India say a teacher has sprinkled cow urine on a school and its pupils in an effort to "purify" his workplace after taking over from a lower-caste principal. Sharad Kaithade took over the village school in the western state of Maharashtra earlier this month, and asked an fellow upper-caste colleague to spray cow urine on school children as they were taking exams, wetting their faces and their answer sheets, the Times of India said. The female colleague also ordered some lower-caste students in one of the classes to get some urine and sprinkle it on themselves. The cow...

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Don't help people sit on their butts I have a question, not only for Douglas County, but for the entire state of Oregon. Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me, I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as they see fit. In order for me to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test, which I have no problem with. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test....

Villagers tout urine drinking's health benefit (Shanghai Daily) Updated: 2006-11-21 11:41 Du Ximin, 50, was one of the five people who formed a healthcare research center promoting drinking urine to stay healthy in his village in 1993. Now about 400 of the village of 1,600 are in the habit of drinking their own urine, and two-thirds of them are senior people, reported state television. Du, formerly head of the Wuzhuang Village in Baqiao District of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, has been drinking his urine on a daily basis since 1990. He has been very healthy over the years, China Central Television...

"Australian researchers say they have discovered that dingo urine can act as a repellent for use in everything from rehabilitating old mine sites to reducing roadkill." "At one stage we fashioned a little urine catcher to walk dingoes and collect it from, but that tended to be risky," Parsons said.

See for example this thread first. This story is fit for a blog A man tried to pee on a dog "Turnabout is fair play" If that's what they say-- I'm just glad it excluded a..."log".

SAN FRANCISCO -- It's a crime in California to urinate in a public place, a state appeals court ruled today. The case before the court came from Berkeley, where a police officer detained a man urinating in the parking lot of a closed restaurant one Sunday morning in January 2003. The officer searched David McDonald and found drugs. McDonald was charged with narcotics possession. But if he hadn't been committing a crime in the first place -- urinating in the open -- the search would have been illegal and the found drugs couldn't be used against him. To deal with...

(Baton Rouge, Louisiana) Woman's Hospital is prepared to spend $25,000 to find the culprit behind an offensive workplace prank. The hospital has ordered two dozen employees to submit to DNA sampling to prove they're not guilty of committing the prank, or else be fired. An employee of building operations came back from several weeks and found someone had put urine in his toolbox. It's not the kind of thing the hospital will stand for. In a memo to 25 employees of the affected department, it was written: "...administration wants to know who did this and is willing to do whatever...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man who recently returned from a trip to Liberia has died of an illness that had not been detected in the United States since 1989 but is common in West Africa, state health officials said Thursday. The man died of Lassa fever, a virus spread through rat droppings or urine that can be passed to other people through bodily fluids but not through causal contact, officials said. The 38-year-old man from the Trenton area was not identified by authorities. It is unlikely that other passengers on the man's flight back from Africa or...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Central Ohio man allegedly told police last week that he likes to drink the urine of adolescent boys. Alan Patton, 54, is in jail after allegedly telling Gahanna, Ohio, police about his affection for urine. Police said Patton goes to family restaurants and movie theaters and waits for boys in a bathroom stall. Investigators said he shuts off the water to the child-level urinal and puts a cup in the bottom.

Urine drinker booted from job as crossing guard Thursday, February 2, 2006 By Dan Lavoie Staff writerDrinking your own urine? Orland Park police have no problem with that. But drink it in a front-page newspaper article while wearing your crossing guard uniform complete with official police insignia, and there will be problems. Ed Danis, the 84-year-old Orland Park "urine therapy" devotee featured in a Jan. 29 Southtown story, has been suspended from his job as a crossing guard, effective Wednesday. Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy, whose department oversees the part-time guards, said Danis had been warned in writing twice...

Mystery of infections in deer and elk may have a solution. The protein particles that cause illnesses such as mad cow disease can be found in the urine of infected mice, researchers report. Their study may solve the mystery of how such 'prion' diseases spread among animals such as sheep, elk and deer. But it also raises concerns that the urine of humans with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may contain dangerous proteins. Prions are primarily found in the brain, the spinal cord and the immune system. British cows are thought to have developed the prion disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)...

Eatery told 'urine' breach of the law By Li Fangchao (China Daily) Updated: 2005-09-08 05:41 HARBIN: Want to become strong and potent like a tiger? Then why not try our special tiger meat dish? This was the question posed to customers at a restaurant in Hailin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The establishment was later fined and ordered to close for inspection, after a local newspaper revealed its recommendation of the outlawed dish. The restaurant, which is called "Hufulou", is situated about a kilometre away from the Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park, China's largest Siberian tiger breeding centre. The restaurant was offering...

The most stimulating time of year may be over for humans, but for moose it's just getting started. September and October are mating season, which can mean bulls locking horns and occasionally chasing cows through urban neighborhoods.That's about the time Fish and Game gets calls from people worried about a bull lying on its side in their yard, panting. "He's been chasing stuff around for the last three weeks, and he just can't do it anymore.....

Physicists in Singapore have succeeded in creating the first paper battery that generates electricity from urine. This new battery will be the perfect power source for cheap, disposable healthcare test-kits for diseases such as diabetes. This research is published today in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. Scientists in research groups around the world are trying to design ever smaller “biochips” that can test for a variety of diseases at once, give instant results, and, crucially, can be mass produced cheaply. But until now, no one has been able to solve the problem of finding a power...

A Singapore scientific institute says it has invented a urine-powered micro battery that can be used in disposable test kits for diabetes and other diseases. The state-funded Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology said a drop of urine placed on the paper battery will generate enough electricity to power a "biochip device" that can analyse the urine sample for disease "biomarkers". "We are striving to develop cheap, disposable credit card-sized biochips for disease," the institute's principal research scientist Dr Lee Ki Bang said in a press statement. "Our battery can be easily integrated into such devices, supplying electricity upon contact with...

Someone urinated in the holy water at a suburban Rochester, N.Y., Catholic church. Four local teens have been charged with that and other vandalism. Monroe County sheriff's deputies said the teenagers smashed wine bottles against the walls, left bicycle skid marks on the carpet, emptied the fire extinguishers and burned cigarette holes in the Saint Pious X Church. The damage is estimated at $17,000. Charged are 18-year-old Dan Seklar, 17-year-old Richard DeCarolis, 16-year-old Michael Street and a 15-year-old who is being charged as a juvenile. All are charged with burglary and criminal mischief, both felonies.

KEN LIVINGSTONE has told Londoners not to flush the lavatory after relieving themselves. The Mayor of London said that dramatic action was needed to prevent an acute water shortage and painted a vision of standpipes in the streets if nothing is done. Mr Livingstone made the comments while inaugurating a public education campaign to promote water conservation. He said that he could ask ministers for an immediate hosepipe and sprinkler ban if the situation deteriorated. Modifying lavatory habits was an important part of this programme, he said. “The quickest and most dramatic impact is, don’t use a sprinkler or hose...

Tens of thousands of 'trucker bombs' litter roads --- SEATTLE — Roadside litter comes in all shapes and sizes — from dirty diapers to syringes — but there's one category that out-grosses the rest: trucker bombs. Most drivers whiz along the nation's highways largely oblivious to their roadside surroundings. But next time you are out there, take a closer look. "As soon as you look for it you’ll see it," says Megan Warfield, litter programs coordinator at Washington state's Department of Ecology. "You just see them glistening in the sun. It’s just gross." They are trucker bombs, plastic jugs full...

Local libraries find many books urine-stained Thursday, May 19, 2005 John Horton Plain Dealer Reporter Rows of urine-stained books have been found in two local libraries. Workers discovered the soiled volumes on the shelves of Aurora Memorial Library in Portage County and Geauga West Library in Chester Township. Hundreds of books -- collectively valued at several thousand dollars -- had to be discarded, officials said. Police in both communities are investigating. "I can't even believe we're discussing something like this," said Linda Yanko, manager at Geauga West. "It's appalling and disgusting." The problems at Geauga West started in January, Yanko...

Librarians in the US have had to admit they are baffled by the case of the urine-stained library books.Hundreds of books at two libraries, just 13 miles apart in Cleveland, have had to be thrown out. Linda Yanko, manager of Geauga West Library, told the Plain Dealer: "I can't even believe we're discussing something like this. It's appalling and disgusting." She said librarians had been finding new cases or urine-related vandalism about once a month with the recent case coming just this week. The problems at Aurora Memorial Library began more than two years ago and damaged books have been...

Isn't it interesting that the Koran in the toilet (which didn't happen, apparently) constitutes desecration and a crucifix in a bottle of urine gets a government grant? Does that seem strange to anyone else?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A life-like prosthetic penis called the Whizzinator and other products promising to help illegal drug users pass urine tests provoked U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to take legal action with subpoenas of manufacturers. Lawmakers objected to attempts to circumvent drug tests with products such as The Whizzinator, a fake penis that can provide a flow of clean urine "again and again, anytime, anywhere you need it!" according to the Web site www.whizzinator.com. A congressional subcommittee voted to subpoena the owner of Puck Technology of Signal Hill, California, the company that makes the Whizzinator. The panel also voted to...

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand plans to upgrade hygiene in its public toilets to meet international standards as it prepares to host the World Toilet Summit next year, a health official said Wednesday. "Toilets are very important for the country's image in the eyes of visitors," said Somyos Chareonsak, a senior official of the Public Health Ministry. The conference is to be held in May 2006. The first summit, organized by the World Toilet Organization, was held in 2001 in Singapore. China, where toilet facilities are often in need of upgrades, hosted one last year. Topics discussed at the meetings include...

A worker with India's main opposition party displays an antiseptic aftershave made of cow urine at a stall in party headquarters in New Delhi February 25, 2005. Alongside life-sized posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles -- all made from cow urine or dung. (B Mathur/Reuters) NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Alongside life-size posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles -- all made from cow urine or...

PARIS, Nov 26 (AFP) - Flatulence, faeces, urination ... and all that's disgusting, sticky and foul-smelling about the human body and how it functions makes for an unusual but educational new Paris exhibition aimed at children.     "Crad'expo" uses kid's talk to describe "farts, poo and wee" for example, "to dare to speak of things that one does not usually speak of", organiser Perrine Wyplosz told AFP.         Playful though scientific, the exhibition which opens on November 30 and runs until next August does not shy away from "naughty" words to teach youngsters about the body's respiratory and digestive systems.     Using...

Two men were sanctioned in federal court Thursday after using … well … an “artificial device” to deliver clean urine for unrelated drug tests. Pressed for a wholesome description, a federal official in the Kansas City court described the device as “an artificial device with a bladder used to circumvent a urine test.” According to a Web site selling the device, it's “designed to be comfortably worn as an undergarment for extended periods of time!” Methamphetamine conspirator David L. Quigg of Belton missed a chance for a lesser sentence after U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith learned that Quigg had used...

A group of parents has accused a teacher at Fairdale Elementary School of forcing their sons to go into the classroom bathroom and take deep breaths because there was urine on and around the toilet. "She wanted them to see how bad it smelled," said parent Shelley Howerton. Howerton and other parents claim the unidentified teacher violated the boys' rights. Ten parents and three children, including Howerton and her son Atrayo, protested outside the school on Thursday. "This made me sick," said parent Jamie Harvey. Atrayo said he was embarrassed by the alleged incident. School officials said the parents' allegation...

Synthetic urine, which sounds like something more likely to generate snickers than sales, is turning into a small success for a Kansas company. Dyna-Tek Industries, a company bought by Kevin Dyches and his wife, Sandra, five years ago, has developed synthetic urine for the research industry. One of their first customers is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites), which made a big purchase this summer and has hinted it could be a major buyer long into the future. Other research institutions and laboratories are also looking into Dyna-Tek's product, called Surine. "We have been very...

In Kevin Dyches' mind, the future is yellow. The suburban Kansas City company Kevin and his wife bought five years ago has developed synthetic urine. While the business plan might induce stifled giggles, synthetic urine is a serious matter in the laboratory industry. Researchers, drug-testing labs and other institutions buy thousands of gallons of the real stuff, mostly to calibrate the equipment used to test regular urine samples for drugs or other substances. But human urine has its limitations. It's unstable. It can smell. And donors must be screened carefully for drug use or disease. That's not the case with...

BOSTON - Media members, already perturbed by long security lines, may find themselves waiting in line for something nearly as important. As the majority of the print reporters arrived Saturday at the FleetCenter for the Democratic National Convention, tongues clucked when they saw the restroom facilities that they will be using for the next week. Twenty portable restrooms, like those used on construction sites, are lined up in front of the media pavilion to service nearly 1,200 members of the print media who will be working around the clock. That's about 60 serious coffee-drinkers per toilet. "That's absurd," said...

Web Sites Offer Help Beating Drug Tests Put 30 drug testing workers in a room together for a few hours and it isn't long before they start trading strange and somewhat indelicate tales of urine collection. Stories of specimens doctored to the most vivid hues of blue, green and purple, and others spiked with bleach or diluted with chewing tobacco. Talk of false penises, and synthetic urine formulated in separate his and hers versions. And accounts of mystery concoctions ingested or added to try to ensure that urine does not betray the drug use of its provider. "It's just amazing,"...

(Greenville SC-AP) Feb. 20, 2004 - A man who has spent years selling urine on the Internet was sent to prison Friday. Kenneth Curtis will spend six months behind bars for his December 2001 conviction for selling urine. Curtis had been out on $30,000 bond as he appealed the state Supreme Court's decision last month to uphold his conviction. It was the same court that ruled a law banning urine sales was legal. Curtis has said he sold the kits because he thinks workplace drug testing is a violation of individual privacy rights. The state's highest court said the public...

ELKO, Nev. -- It wasn't exactly tracks in the snow that helped police in Nevada break a case. It was the yellow snow. Officers in Elko say a burglar relieved himself from the roof of a restaurant that had been ripped off. Investigators say the yellow snow yielded enough DNA to link Roger Gray to the scene. Police say he's admitted to a jewelry store burglary. Investigators are now looking at his possible involvement in burglaries at a pizza place and a JC Penney store. He's being held on $5,000 bail.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The federal government is planning to overhaul its employee drug testing program to include scrutiny of workers' hair, saliva and sweat, a shift that could spur more businesses to revise screening for millions of their own workers. The planned changes, long awaited by the testing industry, reflect government efforts to be more precise in its drug screening and to outmaneuver a small but growing subset of workers who try to cheat on urine-based tests. Some businesses have already adopted alternative testing, despite criticism by privacy advocates. But others have held back, partly awaiting government standards. Alternative...

BY MARGARET McHUGH STAR-LEDGER STAFF A drug-using shoplifter tried to outwit his probation officer by wearing a strap-on device that puts out a drug-free urine sample, but John Gatanas found out The Original Whizzinator turned out not to be as "foolproof" and "undetectable" as its creator promises. Gatanas' probation officer spotted the prosthetic penis during a Nov. 20 drug test, leading to an indictment yesterday and Gatanas' expulsion from drug court, a program that allows drug-addicted nonviolent criminals to avoid jail. In the 20 months since Morris County started a drug court, an intensive supervised drug rehabilitation program, Gatanas, 27,...

It's not an unusual sight. And it's not a pretty sight. Plastic jugs filled with urine are becoming a common sight along the highways, particularly at freeway interchanges. "You wonder what's happening in our society," said Karen Cagle, who supervises highway cleanup crews in Eastern Washington. From March 4 to Nov. 27, 2002, one Adams County highway cleanup crew picked up 2,666 jugs of urine and 67 bags with human excrement in them. That's just one crew out of about 40 crews working in Adams County, and Cagle hasn't yet tallied the results for 2003. But the problem isn't limited...

<p>The lawsuit, reiterating charges that first surfaced in a criminal case against three Burger King employees, alleges that restaurant workers may have been tampering with food for eight months before the contamination came to light.</p> <p>About 19 people “were terminated when the reprehensible and criminal conduct occurring at the defendant’s Burger King restaurant was finally reported by an employee who could no longer sleep at night after learning that the food contamination had escalated from spitting to urination, all the way up to placing lethal poison on food products,’’ allege the court papers, filed on behalf of a Monroe County sheriff’s deputy who maintains he suffered severe gastrointestinal injuries after eating a contaminated burger.</p>

A German artist is planning to serve diners meals made from urine and human breast milk. Conceptual artist Karl-Friedrich Lentze has applied for a permission to serve soups enriched with urine and cakes made of breast milk in a restaurant in the town of Euskirchen. The 54-year-old told local daily Express he is convinced there are plenty of people who would be interested in tasting his recipes for urine-goulash and cakes called "mommy's muffins". He said: "I plan to run the restaurant as some sort of club with registered members. Everybody who goes there, knows what they will be served."

Is it permissible to pass urine while standing? As regards the issue of urinating while standing, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states: "Urinating while standing has been considered by some scholars as makruh or undesirable simply because of the fact that doing so may cause urine to splash on our body or clothes. We should therefore avoid it unless we are faced with a situation where we have no other choice: for instance, while using a public washroom, if there is a concern of exposing ourselves to...