The big story on Sports Radio today is the dismissal of drug charges against National League MVP Ryan Braun. Ryan's original urine test bottle was picked up by Fed Ex but the driver was near the end of his shift on a Saturday and Fed Ex doesn't go out on Sundays so he kept it over the weekend. Was the driver simply negligent? Did he have an ulterior purpose? Does he have some sort of celebrity urine fetish?
At any rate, it cast sufficient doubt on the test that Ryan was exonerated.
Before we castigate the Fed Ex driver, let's consider extenuating circumstances. It's one thing to drive a truck full of "so important it's got to get there tomorrow" mail. It is another to ferry around a truck full of body fluids. These guys should get Hazardous Duty Pay. When Air Products initiated employee drug testing, they did it wholeheartedly. Several hundred employees were tested each day and all those little vials went out on the same Fed Ex shipment. What a joy it must have been to sit through a traffic jam on Route 22 with several gallons of urine moldering behind you.
Worse yet were the fecal blood test packets. Imagine delivering a sack full of days-old feces smears to the Testing Lab. That experience might traumatize even the most stable Fed Ex driver.
Let's not judge Ryan's driver too harshly.
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