Ever heard of someone losing the medical over substances place in their food?

[FN FAL]

Just think, you're sitting in a restaurant eating a meal on one day. The next day you're at the doctor getting the bad news, you're medical is getting pulled.

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Lady in Wausau Wendy's finds Mecury in her peper shaker, juvenile is arrested and charged in two adult crimes after "PRANK".

 

[Occam's Razor]

Losing a medical?

No.

Losing their job?

Yup!

One of our pilots went to an old college buddy's wedding several years ago. At the rehearsal dinner they ate cake, cookies, and "brownies". After eating the brownies the pilot experienced the "buzz" and questioned the groom-to-be. He was told they were made for "old time's sake", and "ha, ha, ha, ha!"

The pilot was the only person at the wedding subject to random drug testing.

After his second trip back from the wedding he was - you guessed it - pulled with the rest of the crew for a random test.

He came back positive.

The Medical Review Officer and Chief Pilot interviewed him and bought his story. The MRO stated that there are over 30 cases of "inadvertant ingestion" every year. In most cases the MRO can grant a waiver for the positive test due to inadavertant ingestion, but a package must be sent to the FAA, with an affidavit from the knucklehead who gave you the substance. ("My husband had a headache...but instead of Tylenol, I gave him one of my Percocets by mistake. My bad!")

In this case, the "prankster" groom refused to sign an affidavit because giving someone dope without their knowledge is a crime.

The pilot was fired.

He's selling powerboats in FLL now. He eventually got his medical back by going through a substance abuse program.

(His seniority could hold B-757 captain at our company now...)

 

[Hung Start]

I knew of a friend who had a couple-of-day layover in the willy-wacks of Northern Canada. Couldn't speak French, nothing to do,, got quite a buzz on. Next day pick up some aspirins called "222", an over the counter thing in Canada. Took he usual 3 or 4, (yeah,like we read the label when we are in that condition) only to find later they have a good bit of codein in them. Sure enough, gets home and the envelope is there.
Did explain, and had kept the bottle in his bag for the medical review office.
Lesson learned.