Clerks Get Jail Time After Urinating In Soda Bottle

June 25, 2006 10:00 a.m. EST

Megan Shannon - All Headline News Staff Writer

Deland, Fla. (AHN) - Two store clerks will spend six months in jail and one will remain on house arrest for two years after playing practical jokes on unsuspecting customers.

Anthony Mesa and another clerk, who work in a Deland convenience store, urinated in a Mountain Dew bottle and put it back in the refrigerator for sale. They also put eggs in beer cartons.

According AP reports, a construction worker drank out of the Mountain Dew bottle the clerks tampered with. He has settled a civil complaint against the store.

Mesa reportedly plead no contest to tampering with consumer product and faced up to 30 years in prison.

Man Sentenced For Urinating Into Soda Customer Drank

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POSTED: 2:04 pm EDT June 22, 2006
UPDATED: 11:47 pm EDT June 22, 2006

DELAND, Fla. -- A Central Florida convenience store worker who was charged for urinating into a soda bottle, causing a customer who drank from it to become violently ill, was sentenced to six months in jail.

Anthony Mesa was working at a Publix-owned Pix convenience store located off Howland Boulevard in Deltona, Fla., in August when he and a co-worker decided to play practical jokes.

They put eggs in beer cartons, and Mesa urinated in the drink.


Anthony Mesa, 21.

A foreman with a Daytona Beach construction company became suspicious of the drink after he chugged the beverage, Local 6 News reported in an earlier story.

The victim was tested for diseases such as gonorrhea and hepatitis C after drinking the soda, the report said.

The construction worker settled a civil lawsuit with the store for an undisclosed amount.

Mesa has already served half that time since he pleaded no contest to tampering with a consumer product.

He must also remain on a form of house arrest for two years after he is released.

Mesa had faced up to 30 years in prison for the prank.

Why??? confused3

I can't stand idiots like this.