Marketers of Whizzenator Plead Guilty

damn legal technicalities, anyway...

(bet they made more than the fines)

I'll be back....in a minute. I've just run out of pee.

I notice doing a quick internet search that the Whizzinator is still available online! Whew!

Better get yours now, dude.

You betcha Edgar. I may buy two. Never know when you're going to need an extra penis!

Am I super-dumb or what? The story says they pleaded guilty in Federal court. It doesn't say what they were found guilty of, just conspiracy. Conspiracy to what? Defraud the government testers or defraud the public? It doesn't even indicate whether this silly-sounding doo-dad actually works. Does it do what it's supposed to? Or was it a scam all along?

Good thought. I think they use conspiracy when they can't come up with a felony worth prosecuting. Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor becomes a felony.

Classic example is from Michner's The Drifters. Imagine two guys slinking down an ally in Philadelphia, conspiring to kill a bald eagle. Now that they have conspired to commit a felony, they become ineligible for the draft, if convicted. No eagles in Philadelphia? No problem. They don't have to kill an eagle. All they need to do is to "conspire to".

I don't understand what Law was broken. Seems odd.

Well, as I always say; "You can put it into the hands of your attorneys, but it won't stand up in court".

Another version of the Whizzenator (with an entirely different purpose), from Oz ....:

Conspiracy to provide a mistdeweiner.

I wonder if companies that sell the pills that make drugs not show up in urine are also breaking some kind of law. Why haven't they been prosecuted?

At 5-5-1, the Eagles haven't really shown up this year, but, last I looked, they were still in Philly.

That's my point, Squinney. I don't think there are any laws against selling paraphernalia to fool drug testers... if the merchandise actually works. The "conspiracy" must have been to sell this Rube Goldberg contraption which, to me, doesn't sound as though it would fool anyone. But the story, as posted, doesn't explain that. Rookie reporters.

That made my day, msolga. Not so much the product as the ad itself. I particularly like that nice touch of the hose running from the pants leg.

Me too! (Why pollute the water when you can "make water"?)

Andrew & Tai

That was a cartoon from yesterday's Age newspaper (Melbourne, Oz).
With the continuing (never ending?) drought & water shortages, we are absolutely obsessed (!) by what are we going to do if it doesn't rain (like crazy!) soon? People are investing in home water tanks, the state government is investing in a huge desalinization plant, there are fueds between the country & city about water being diverted to the city .... you have no idea!
So this cartoon is a tongue in cheek depiction of one of the many, many suggested solutions: The conversion of human urine into drinking water. Pretty nifty invention!
Glad you enjoyed it.

Sorry to digress from your topic, edgar, but I couldn't help myself!