This story caught my eye.

A recycling company owner plead guilty in federal court in South Bend, Indiana, yesterday for selling defective test strips.

Bayer paid the recycling company $8,000 to dispose of the test strips, which were part of a 2007 recall. Dispose of the test strips he did; On the Internet. Well, he attempted to. I guess the eight grand wasn't enough. I'm not sure if any of the test strips were purchased before they were removed from the Internet, but think of the harm he could have caused. What a scumbag!

I don't know the avenue in which one takes to sell defective test strips on the Internet (shocking as that may be), but I might be a little leery if I came across Crazy Kenny's Recycling, Pool Cleaning and Test Strip Hut while on the Internet. Maybe I'm just naïve. Perhaps it's a much more sophisticated racket than that.

It gets better. Incidentally, the guy has diabetes. He told the court that he tried the strips on himself before putting them up for sale. How courageous.

So consider yourself warned. If your online shipment of test strips arrive in a recycled, semi-crushed Miller Lite aluminum can or a plastic Poland Spring bottle with the label ripped off and "Diabetus Test Stripps" written in black magic marker, you may want to exercise caution.