File this one under "You Can't Make This Stuff Up". A young woman was arrested in a Denver suburb for contaminating a 7-Eleven microwave (and think about how difficult that is), apparently with urine. At first read, I wondered about the physical impossibility of doing something like this, but then realized that the urine had been in a container. When the potential employee (because that's what she was) put the urine container in the microwave and heated it, it had either boiled over or exploded. This event, not to mention the smell, did not escape the eyes/nose of the watchful 7-11 clerk, who alerted police after the woman refused to clean the mess.
Why on earth was someone heating urine in a microwave? Well, if you are going to substitute a benign urine sample for your own at a drug test lab, you need to warm the substituted sample to near body temperature. The now-defendant was on her way to a drug testing lab as part of an employment application process. I suspect her employer will regard this as a disqualifying event.
Thank heavens she was apprehended.
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