Posted on 04/08/2010 1:06:55 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
PITTSBURGH — A California man who spent nearly six years in prison for a 1980s marijuana-trafficking conviction got six months in federal prison for running a company that sold a male prosthetic called the Whizzinator that helped men cheat on drug tests.
Gerald W. Wills, 67, of Los Angeles, sold the device and a product called Number 1 that could be used by either men or women, along with a synthetic urine to fill the devices.
Wills' since-disbanded company, Puck Technology Inc., of Signal Hill, Calif., advertised the devices on the Internet as a way for pilots, truck drivers and others whose safety is regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation to beat drug tests.
The Web site even included testimonials from those who used it.
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Nice name....”Whizzinator”
I bet he’s pissed.
I’d like to know what law they broke. I didn’t see mention of it in the article.
I say God Bless Synthetic Urine.
What law did he break?
WEll, when Wissenators are outlawed, only outlaws will have...nevermind.
one of the Minnesota Vikings got busted with one in his luggage at an airport checkpoint...I don’t recall who.
And here in Pittsburgh somebody stuck one in the microwave at a convenience store to warm it up before heading out to take a drug test. They apparently forgot about it. Half an hour later the clerk found and the cops got a call about a severed penis in the microwave at 7-11. Got us on all of those Weird News features.
Onterrio Smith.
(See: Aiding and Abetting)
"I can't tell you how many times I got fired before I started using the Whizzinator. No seriously, dude, I just can't remember."
The men pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to defraud the United States, because the products were specifically marketed to beat federal drug tests.
Attorneys for both men said their clients didn't realize the business was illegal and shut it down once they learned it was.
That’s it, thanks.
I wonder if this is at all related to the Tommy Chong bust for selling bongs on the internet? Both of these guys were Californians who for some reason were tried here in Pittsburgh. Mary Beth Whitehead was the Federal prosecutor, now running against Jason Altmire for Congress.
I am anti-drug but I really don’t see what sending an gray, slightly addled Tommy Chong off for a couple years in the pokey really accomplished.
Uh Oh, I may lose my pilots license now. That flight from Philly to Tampa will be a little delayed tomorrow, duderoni.
Laws? The Feds don't need no stinking laws! If they don't like you they will find some stupid law you broke. It all started when they got Al Capone.
The law that hadn’t been written yet.
Isn’t drug paraphenalia supposed to be directly involved with the actual use of drugs? I guess it doesn’t matter when the Feds get on your case. Too expensive to fight them and you run the risk of hard time sentencing.
Entrepreneurship.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
Didn’t know it was “illegal?” Shirley, you jest.
If something you do or do not do may harm another person, does the Federal or State Government have a “right” or “duty” or “obligation” to pass a law forbidding you to do so or not do so?
That’s two questions in one.
Yeah, I remember that one. Took ‘em a while to figure out it wasn’t real.
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