BATON ROUGE, La. - A Baton Rouge hospital, hoping to get to the bottom of an office prank, is ordering 25 employees to undergo DNA testing or be terminated.

Leaders at Woman's Hospital say a man who works in Building Operations returned from several weeks off to find that someone had placed urine in his toolbox.

After hearing of the incident, hospital administrators sent a memo to 25 employees who also work there telling them that DNA testing would be done unless someone came forward admitting guilt. Since no one came forward, the hospital said the DNA testing will begin within the next few weeks.

"We checked with our legal counsel first and this is the next step in using technology to help solve a workplace incident," hospital supervisor Stan Shelton said Monday.

The DNA testing, to be conducted by ReliaGene Technologies of New Orleans, will cost the hospital $25,000, he said.

Attorney Jill Craft worked with litigation involving swabs taken during the investigation into the South Louisiana serial killer cases. Craft fought for the rights of those swabbed during the probe that eventually resulted in the arrest of Derrick Todd Lee.

Craft said she believed the employees' rights are being violated. "It's the intrusion by finding out what your DNA looks like, your unique pattern, which in my opinion, violates someone's right to privacy," she said.

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Another incident in the world of urine…………….If you ask me $25 000 is going to waste, they could spend that money on other things.

Hiring a torturer would have been a lot cheaper and quicker.....

Chances are the first person would admit guilt and the other 24 would not require it.

Added to that...... The first one would probably squeal who did this horrible, horrible crime

$25,000 . . . that's a lot of money . . .

Sounds like illegal search and seizure to me. Just a lil quote from the Bill of Rights there.
I don't see how they can fulfill the "Probable Cause" part.
I would submit a sample, but they wouldn't like where I submitted it...

Again with the urine?!!

There seems to be a lot of activity concerning that area lately.

And this is a hospital! I would imagine it would be easier (and safer from the culprit's point of view) to just use urine from some patient. I doubt that they will get a match from the DNA testing. Money down the toilet, you might say!