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Pee Thief Sentenced

By Margaret Lyons in News on Aug 13, 2008 4:43PM

Joseph Klinkman, 24, was sentenced to four years in prison after he was caught stealing urine. Some of the urine was his, and some was his friend's; they had both given samples to be drug tested, but apparently didn't think they'd pass because they'd taken a drug for recovering heroin addicts. Klinkman, of Chesterton, didn't steal anything else from the lab, but this line really got us: "[o]fficials estimated the value of each urine sample at $6.50." A cup of pee is worth about as much as a matinée. Good to know. [WBBM]