Huntington Beach and San Pedro men sold prosthetic penises to help people cheat workplace drug tests, according to a Department of Justice press release.
A Huntington Beachman was sentenced by a U.S. District Court in Pittsburghon Thursday to three years' probation for selling a product called the Whizzinator, which had prosthetic penises to help people cheat workplace drug tests, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Robert Catalano, 65, pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to defraud the United States
His business partner, Gerald Willis, 67, of San Pedro, was sentenced to six months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, the release said. Willis has spent nearly six year, in prison for marijuana trafficking in the mid-1980s, according to an Associated Press report.
Their company, Puck Technology Inc., in Signal Hill sold products called the Whizzinator, Yellow River and Number 1, which allowed men and women to simulate urination to register a false negative during drug testing.
The devices were designed to help illicit drug users, usually those in public health or safety sensitive positions, pass employer drug tests, the Department of Justice press release said.
Prosecutors asked for leniency because the two men have continued to cooperate in other investigations, according to an Associated Press report. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary McKeen Houghton would not detail those other investigations and her motion seeking leniency was under seal, the report said.
The Whizzinator attracted the attention of Congressin 2005 when a National Football Leagueplayer tried to cheat a drug test. Then-Minnesota Vikingsrunning back Onterrio Smithwas detained at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with the prosthetic and a packet of dehydrated urine. A House subcommittee held a hearing but no action was taken.
Actor Tom Sizemorealso was caught with one after he attempted to evade drug tests while on probation.
As part of the investigation, undercover purchases of the products were made on Sept. 8, 2006, and Feb. 7, 2007. The company has stopped operating.
Punk band's singer Fat Mike is said to be under investigation for allegedly putting his own urine in a bottle of tequila he shared with his audience at Austin festival
Fat Mike, real name Michael John Burkett, on stage as Cokie the Clown. Photograph: Daniel Boczarski/Redferns
The singer of NOFX is reportedly under investigation after secretly spiking fans' drinks with urine at a SXSW concert. Fat Mike ended his set of dark songs by revealing the subterfuge in a video.
The Pinpoint music blog reports that Fat Mike, real name Michael John Burkett, swaggered into the Emo's Annex venue wearing the face paint of his character Cokie the Clown. Holding a bottle of Patrón Añejo tequila, he poured 40 shots for himself and others in the crowd before taking the mic and bringing the Austin festival to a new, GG Allinesque low.
Although the 43-year-old played acoustic versions of several of the punk band's tunes, the heart of the show was a string of sordid "true" stories touching on rape, suicide and the alleged smothering death of his mother. "By the time he started talking about his relationship with his father, all of Mike's friends who were standing near me had noticeably changed their demeanour," the blogger reports. Fat Mike also played a new song, thick with foreshadowing: Drinking Pee.
"As Mike finished his last song, he announced that he had a video that he had prepared especially for this evening," the blogger recalls. "The mood in the building was completely fucked at this point. Upon instruction, his videographer hooked up the same camera he had been recording on the entire time to a 20-something inch TV that was positioned stage left. His camera man rewound through the entire footage to reveal a scene that occurred kitty-corner to the artist entrance of this venue."
The video showed Fat Mike urinating into the same Patrón bottle he seemed to have brought into the club and poured from for dozens of fans. "I confirmed that urine was not classified as a biohazard waste and not subject to the risks of legal ramifications of blood, semen, or feces," Fat Mike told TMZ in an interview.
The Austin health department is now reportedly looking into the incident.
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12:00 PM, 04/15/10
Smelly litter box mistaken for meth lab, neighborhood evacuated
Ken Christian, Information Center Content Manager 1 day ago
WESTLAND, Mich. (NBC) -- Hazmat teams tested a Westland, Michigan home after the landlord said she thought the former tenants were running a methamphetamine lab inside.
The fire department, police and Hazmat teams covered from head-to-toe stormed the home on Palmer Street Monday afternoon after receiving a panicked call from the homeowner.
The homeowner, Sue Walters, said she entered the home Monday for the first time in 20 years after kicking the tenants out and discovered a horrific smell.
"It makes me want to throw up. It's sickening," said Walters.
Walters said the stench smelled like ammonia, which is a key ingredient in homemade meth.
Authorities tested the home several times and determined the smell was not ammonia.
"Not a meth lab. Just an un-kept house with a lot of cats. The cats urine turned to an ammonia-smell," said Michael Magda with Western Wayne County Hazmat team.
The scene was cleared, but the home remains uninhabitable at this time.
Walters said she is going to hire a company to clean the home and she hopes to have it rented out again in the near future.
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Awww geeez... Did we need that last one?
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Urine #2: Holy Piss! CBS Knoxville | Submitted by: Danger Mouse "Father McKenzie says the most hurtful act was done to holy water inside the sanctuary. "Somebody had urinated into that."
Urine #1: Catch! KTLA News | Submitted by: cyran0 "When the man went outside to talk to Avila, she allegedly tried to run him over with her vehicle and then fled... Police pulled her over a short time later. Avila removed her urostomy bag and threw it at three officers, who were splashed with urine."
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Patent for a urinal is granted to Andrew Rankin.
Updated: 12:18 p.m.
HB man sentenced for making fake pee products
Huntington Beach and San Pedro men sold prosthetic penises to help people cheat workplace drug tests, according to a Department of Justice press release.
A Huntington Beachman was sentenced by a U.S. District Court in Pittsburghon Thursday to three years' probation for selling a product called the Whizzinator, which had prosthetic penises to help people cheat workplace drug tests, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Robert Catalano, 65, pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to defraud the United States
His business partner, Gerald Willis, 67, of San Pedro, was sentenced to six months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, the release said. Willis has spent nearly six year, in prison for marijuana trafficking in the mid-1980s, according to an Associated Press report.
Their company, Puck Technology Inc., in Signal Hill sold products called the Whizzinator, Yellow River and Number 1, which allowed men and women to simulate urination to register a false negative during drug testing.
The devices were designed to help illicit drug users, usually those in public health or safety sensitive positions, pass employer drug tests, the Department of Justice press release said.
Prosecutors asked for leniency because the two men have continued to cooperate in other investigations, according to an Associated Press report. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary McKeen Houghton would not detail those other investigations and her motion seeking leniency was under seal, the report said.
The Whizzinator attracted the attention of Congressin 2005 when a National Football Leagueplayer tried to cheat a drug test. Then-Minnesota Vikingsrunning back Onterrio Smithwas detained at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with the prosthetic and a packet of dehydrated urine. A House subcommittee held a hearing but no action was taken.
Actor Tom Sizemorealso was caught with one after he attempted to evade drug tests while on probation.
As part of the investigation, undercover purchases of the products were made on Sept. 8, 2006, and Feb. 7, 2007. The company has stopped operating.
Contact the writer: aburris@ocregister.com or 714-796-7922
NOFX's Fat Mike 'spiked fans drink with urine'
Punk band's singer Fat Mike is said to be under investigation for allegedly putting his own urine in a bottle of tequila he shared with his audience at Austin festival
Fat Mike, real name Michael John Burkett, on stage as Cokie the Clown. Photograph: Daniel Boczarski/Redferns
The singer of NOFX is reportedly under investigation after secretly spiking fans' drinks with urine at a SXSW concert. Fat Mike ended his set of dark songs by revealing the subterfuge in a video.
The Pinpoint music blog reports that Fat Mike, real name Michael John Burkett, swaggered into the Emo's Annex venue wearing the face paint of his character Cokie the Clown. Holding a bottle of Patrón Añejo tequila, he poured 40 shots for himself and others in the crowd before taking the mic and bringing the Austin festival to a new, GG Allinesque low.
Although the 43-year-old played acoustic versions of several of the punk band's tunes, the heart of the show was a string of sordid "true" stories touching on rape, suicide and the alleged smothering death of his mother. "By the time he started talking about his relationship with his father, all of Mike's friends who were standing near me had noticeably changed their demeanour," the blogger reports. Fat Mike also played a new song, thick with foreshadowing: Drinking Pee.
"As Mike finished his last song, he announced that he had a video that he had prepared especially for this evening," the blogger recalls. "The mood in the building was completely fucked at this point. Upon instruction, his videographer hooked up the same camera he had been recording on the entire time to a 20-something inch TV that was positioned stage left. His camera man rewound through the entire footage to reveal a scene that occurred kitty-corner to the artist entrance of this venue."
The video showed Fat Mike urinating into the same Patrón bottle he seemed to have brought into the club and poured from for dozens of fans. "I confirmed that urine was not classified as a biohazard waste and not subject to the risks of legal ramifications of blood, semen, or feces," Fat Mike told TMZ in an interview.
The Austin health department is now reportedly looking into the incident.
Smelly litter box mistaken for meth lab, neighborhood evacuated
WESTLAND, Mich. (NBC) -- Hazmat teams tested a Westland, Michigan home after the landlord said she thought the former tenants were running a methamphetamine lab inside.
The fire department, police and Hazmat teams covered from head-to-toe stormed the home on Palmer Street Monday afternoon after receiving a panicked call from the homeowner.
The homeowner, Sue Walters, said she entered the home Monday for the first time in 20 years after kicking the tenants out and discovered a horrific smell.
"It makes me want to throw up. It's sickening," said Walters.
Walters said the stench smelled like ammonia, which is a key ingredient in homemade meth.
Authorities tested the home several times and determined the smell was not ammonia.
"Not a meth lab. Just an un-kept house with a lot of cats. The cats urine turned to an ammonia-smell," said Michael Magda with Western Wayne County Hazmat team.
The scene was cleared, but the home remains uninhabitable at this time.
Walters said she is going to hire a company to clean the home and she hopes to have it rented out again in the near future.
NBCCBS Knoxville | Submitted by: Danger Mouse
"Father McKenzie says the most hurtful act was done to holy water inside the sanctuary. "Somebody had urinated into that."
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KTLA News | Submitted by: cyran0
"When the man went outside to talk to Avila, she allegedly tried to run him over with her vehicle and then fled... Police pulled her over a short time later. Avila removed her urostomy bag and threw it at three officers, who were splashed with urine."
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