GAITHERSBURG -- In front of a chuckling Frederick County courtroom, a prosecutor suggested that a convicted drug-dealer tried to evade a urine screening by wearing a fake penis rigged with a thermometer, a belt and reconstituted urine crystals.

Quite possibly he was using the Whizzinator, a product ordered on the Internet for $150.

Over the years, officials have become hip to the old bait-and-switch trick of using somebody else's clean urine in place of one that might fail a drug test.

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