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DNA Tests Ordered for Urine Toolbox Prank
adelphia.net ^ | 3/1/06 | Mikey_1962

Posted on 03/01/2006 8:39:41 AM PST by Mikey_1962

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Baton Rouge hospital, hoping to get to the bottom of an office prank, is ordering 25 employees to undergo DNA testing or be terminated.

Leaders at Woman's Hospital say a man who works in Building Operations returned from several weeks off to find that someone had placed urine in his toolbox.

After hearing of the incident, hospital administrators sent a memo to 25 employees who also work there telling them that DNA testing would be done unless someone came forward admitting guilt. Since no one came forward, the hospital said the DNA testing will begin within the next few weeks.

"We checked with our legal counsel first and this is the next step in using technology to help solve a workplace incident," hospital supervisor Stan Shelton said Monday.

The DNA testing, to be conducted by ReliaGene Technologies of New Orleans, will cost the hospital $25,000, he said.

Attorney Jill Craft worked with litigation involving swabs taken during the investigation into the South Louisiana serial killer cases. Craft fought for the rights of those swabbed during the probe that eventually resulted in the arrest of Derrick Todd Lee.

Craft said she believed the employees' rights are being violated. "It's the intrusion by finding out what your DNA looks like, your unique pattern, which in my opinion, violates someone's right to privacy," she said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dnatest; dnatests; employersrights; jillcraft; reliagene; righttoprivacy; technologies; womanshospital
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What makes them think the urine is human?
1 posted on 03/01/2006 8:39:44 AM PST by Mikey_1962
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to find that someone had placed urine in his toolbox

Wait a minute, did someone "place" urine there (as in a container of urine), or did they pee in the thing?

2 posted on 03/01/2006 8:42:04 AM PST by SIDENET ("IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!")
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The DNA testing, to be conducted by ReliaGene Technologies of New Orleans, will cost the hospital $25,000, he said.

We must find this artist, at all costs.

3 posted on 03/01/2006 8:42:23 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Mikey_1962

All I've got to say to whoever did it is "Urine trouble".


4 posted on 03/01/2006 8:43:25 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Mikey_1962
someone had placed urine in his toolbox

In other words..."peed". Now, wasn't that easier to say?

5 posted on 03/01/2006 8:44:12 AM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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To: Mikey_1962

Since this is a hospital, the chances of the urine belonging to a patient are pretty good.

No wonder the perp is being quiet- once he learned that they were going to do DNA testing, he knew he was clear.

A polygraph would have been cheaper and more intimidating.


6 posted on 03/01/2006 8:44:29 AM PST by DBrow
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To: cripplecreek

Ha ha ha GOOD COMMENT ha ha hA !


7 posted on 03/01/2006 8:44:38 AM PST by buffyt (America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
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To: Mikey_1962

Wow, somebody must be p!ssed.


8 posted on 03/01/2006 8:45:05 AM PST by AbeKrieger (All great empires are destroyed from within.)
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To: Mikey_1962

OMG! What if there happened to be a Koran in there too? Can you imagine?


9 posted on 03/01/2006 8:45:19 AM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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A Baton Rouge hospital, hoping to get to the bottom of an office prank, is ordering 25 employees to undergo DNA testing or be terminated.

The first person terminated is going to OWN that hospital.

10 posted on 03/01/2006 8:46:41 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Islam's true face: http://makeashorterlink.com/?J169127BC)
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The DNA testing, to be conducted by ReliaGene Technologies of New Orleans, will cost the hospital $25,000, he said.

How about buying a new tool box and new tools for $1000?

11 posted on 03/01/2006 8:47:31 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: Mikey_1962

Finding out whose urine it is does not necessarily prove who put it there. Hell, 25 people will have their urine in the possession of the testing facility. Assuming none of it is returned, those people have no control over what happens to their urine.


12 posted on 03/01/2006 8:48:52 AM PST by Niteranger68 ("Only 4 out of 3 Democrats actually vote.")
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To: SIDENET
Was it WRONG to pee in that toolbox? Should he have not done that?

I'll bet if someone had ever told the guy not to pee there, he wouldn't have.

13 posted on 03/01/2006 8:50:40 AM PST by Slump Tester ( What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Mikey_1962
Derrick Todd Lee

Why does it seem like all serial killers and presidential assasains referred to by all three of their names, i.e., Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, Derrick Todd Lee, John Wayne Gacy, etc.?

14 posted on 03/01/2006 8:50:52 AM PST by Ignatz (Freeper cyborg: "The lay teachers could not make hands of some girls.")
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To: Mikey_1962

Better than a pubic hair on the coke can?


15 posted on 03/01/2006 8:53:17 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
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To: Mikey_1962

Before Bush took over in the White House, Clinton invited him over to see the place. Bill asks' How do you like the place?' W says 'It's nice but where is the bathroom?' "End of the hall." says the stainmaster and jerks his thumb down the hall. W got home and Laura asks" How did you like it?" W says "That Clinton is sure a decadent bassturd. He has solid gold urinals!!" The next day, Laura goes to the WH to meet Hillary! Hillary asks how did W like the place and Laura said "Fine, but George is going to make some changes." Hillary asks "Like what?" and laura tells her he doesn't think the solid gold urinals are appropriate. Hillary's eyes lift in shock and Laura goes home. Bill asks Hillary later how her meeting with Laura went and Hillary says "I learned a lot today." "Oh? Like what?" says Bill. "I found out who p!ssed in your saxophone." says Hillary.


16 posted on 03/01/2006 8:55:34 AM PST by Safetgiver (Noone spoke when the levee done broke, Blanco cried and Nagin lied.)
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How about buying a new tool box and new tools for $1000?

What about the principle? The principle of wasting huge amounts of time and money?

It reminds me of a fellow who noticed a scratch on his car after retrieving it from a valet somewhere in Miami. When he got no satisfaction from the valet company, he hired a private investigator from New York, flew the PI to Miami, and paid for his extended stay in Miami. After several weeks of paying this dude's salary, the car owner still doesn't know who scratched his car.

The mystery can only be solved by God. It was New Year's Eve, and there were dozens of employees with access to the garage; even worse, his car could have been scratched somewhere else.

Why waste thousands of dollars on a private investigator? For the principle, the principle of wasting time and money.

17 posted on 03/01/2006 9:05:50 AM PST by george wythe
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To: Mikey_1962

Why not try looking for finger prints first? :P


18 posted on 03/01/2006 9:32:38 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: cripplecreek

I hope it wasn't the lab tech.


19 posted on 03/01/2006 9:34:30 AM PST by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Conservative!)
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To: Safetgiver

Haha.

Similar story - When X42 was in office, he went out jogging one winter's day. Suddenly, he screeched to a halt, because there in the snow along the path were the golden words, "Bill Clinton sucks". He furiously called the secret service and demanded they find the culprit. "I want DNA, urinalysis, hand-writing analysis - the works!"

Later they come back to him and say, "Well, we've got bad news, and we've got worse news. The bad news is that the DNA matches algore."

X42 says, "Man, what could be worse than that?"

"The hand writing is Hilary's!"


20 posted on 03/01/2006 9:55:14 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Rage is the fuel that powers the islamic machine)
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