Cops reinstated as drug testing using hair follicles tossed out

Just when you thought it couldn't get any stranger:

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/03/cops_firing_for_drugs_reversed

In short, hair samples rejected as drug test process, 6 cops reinstated.  Among the excuses by cops who had originally been suspended due to positive drug samples:

• Gosh, I brushed white powder off the seat of my squad car, I thought it was powdered sugar from donuts.
• Well, my apartment shares an HVAC system with some serious meth smokers
• Ya know, I regularly put seized drugs in my pocket.  Where I also regularly store cookies.  Then I eat cookies.

Not making those up.  The mind reels at the hubris.