No Joke

[BoneheadNW]

For all of you practical jokers (including myself), this guy is gonna pay. What would the penalty be for taco sauce under the toilet seat?
Bonehead

Store Clerk Gets Jail For Urinating In Soda

Construction Worker Drank Tainted Soda


POSTED: 3:59 am PDT June 23, 2006

DELAND, Fla. -- A practical joke has landed a former Florida convenience store clerk in more trouble than he expected.
The man, who urinated in a bottle of Mountain Dew that a customer later drank, will spend six months in jail.
Anthony Mesa has pleaded no contest to tampering with a consumer product. Police in Deltona, Fla., charged Mesa and another clerk who decided to play some practical jokes.
They put eggs in beer cartons. And, according to authorities, Mesa urinated in the soda bottle and put it back in the refrigerator. The tainted soda was later drunk by a construction worker, who has settled a civil complaint against the store.
In addition to the six months in jail, Mesa will remain on a form of house arrest for another two years after he is released.
Mesa had faced up to 30 years in prison for the prank.

 

[Doc]

Mesa had faced up to 30 years in prison for the prank.

What a dirty trick. But 30 years????? Heck people get off on manslaughter with less time than that.

taco sause under the toilet seat Sounds like something you've tried BH.

 

[Melensdad]

What a dirty trick. But 30 years????? Heck people get off on manslaughter with less time than that.

Doc, product tampering has been a very serious crime ever since the Tylenol tampering that caused deaths, and probably tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Currently my warehouse is required to be able to track where and when we got something, from whom it came, and where and when we shipped it. The Department of Homeland Security is now involved with food shipments, tracking them, and making sure that they can be recalled effectively if there is a terrorist related tampering.

I can tell you one thing, if there is a product tampering issue, many warehouses will not be able to fully comply with the regulations, but generally our food and drug supply is probably safer today than it has ever been. I can also tell you that if there is a recall for tampering that it will cost a mint to follow the proceedures and I'd be might pissed off if I have to spend huge amounts of time & labor and the guilty party does NOT get a very stiff jail term.

 

[Doc]

Doc, product tampering has been a very serious crime ever since the Tylenol tampering that caused deaths, and probably tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Currently my warehouse is required to be able to track where and when we got something, from whom it came, and where and when we shipped it. The Department of Homeland Security is now involved with food shipments, tracking them, and making sure that they can be recalled effectively if there is a terrorist related tampering.

I can tell you one thing, if there is a product tampering issue, many warehouses will not be able to fully comply with the regulations, but generally our food and drug supply is probably safer today than it has ever been. I can also tell you that if there is a recall for tampering that it will cost a mint to follow the proceedures and I'd be might pissed off if I have to spend huge amounts of time & labor and the guilty party does NOT get a very stiff jail term.

That makes sense Bob. I had not thought of it that way.

 

[DaveNay]

Doc, product tampering has been a very serious crime ever since the Tylenol tampering that caused deaths, and probably tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

As a kid, I used to deliver the daily newspaper to the Janus familiy in Arlington Heights (one of the first victims). They lived only one block down on the same street. I remember the ambulace and emergency vehicles very clearly that day.